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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Looking Ahead: New California Employment Laws for 2024

In the past few months, California Governor Newsom has signed numerous new employment laws affecting California employers of all sizes. Below is a summary of some of the laws going into effect in 2024....more

Troutman Pepper

Unpacking California’s 2024 Employment Laws: Key Changes Employers Need to Know

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California enacted several new employment laws for 2024, summarized below, including expanded paid sick leave, leave for reproductive loss, protections for employee cannabis use, additional noncompete enforcement limitations,...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

California's New Employment Laws: Get Ready for 2024

Governor Newsom signed into law a plethora of bills that significantly expand the rights of employees in California, although notably vetoing a bill that would have prohibited caste discrimination. Most of the new laws take...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

‘You Don't Have to Take It’: Keep OCR Happy, Use Legal Means to Combat Online Comments

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 8 (August 2023) The allegation was shocking and, if true, would devastate the orthopedic surgeon’s reputation. An online commenter accused him of operating on the wrong arm or...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

Welcome Clarity for Medical Staffs and Healthcare Entities Facing Frivolous or Retaliatory Lawsuits

The California Third District Court of Appeal recently upheld the actions of a healthcare facility reporting a provider to the National Practitioner Data Bank who resigned while under investigation. In doing so, the court...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Spread of COVID-Whistleblower Legislative Protections Continues Unabated

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The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic was sudden and devastating, and even as the threat levels subside, the fallout endures. To be sure, the healthcare industry has long been on the forefront of battling the threat to public...more

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Virginia Paid Sick Leave For Home Health Workers

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Effective July 1, 2021, Virginia joins the District of Columbia and many other states with paid leave for designated workers (Virginia’s Paid Sick Leave Law), home health workers in this case. Paid sick leave is compensated...more

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Philadelphia: Public Health Emergency Leave; Healthcare Worker Pandemic Pay, Benefits

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Philadelphia workers who are not covered by federal sick leave laws, such as the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), are entitled to paid sick leave benefits under the new public health emergency leave bill...more

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False Claims Act: 2018 Year-in-Review

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Federal False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries in fiscal year 2018 amounted to $2.88 billion, down by roughly $600 million from the prior year and dropping below $3 billion for the first time in eight years. Healthcare cases,...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Religious Institutions Update: October 2016

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Timely Topics - The final rule implementing Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on May...more

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Granite Mesa Health Center Sued By EEOC for Disability Discrimination and Retaliation

Nursing Home Fired a Certified Nurse Assistant When He Disclosed He Was HIV-Positive, Federal Agency Charged - AUSTIN, Texas - A nursing home violated federal law by discharging an employee who hesitated when ordered to...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Get Off My Lawn (Or Gurney): Off Duty Employees Allowed To Picket on Hospital Employer’s Property

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Seyfarth Synopsis: In a split decision, the NLRB ruled that off-duty employees of an acute care hospital had the right to picket the hospital’s main lobby entrance. After the collective bargaining agreement between acute...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

California Enacts a Raft of New Employment Legislation

The latest legislative session has just ended, and, true to form, the California Legislature has added more than a dozen new laws affecting employers doing business in the nation’s largest state.  These statutes are in...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Twitter Ordered by Irish Court to Disclose Information about Author of Tweet

Twitter International Company (TIC) in Dublin, Ireland was reportedly ordered by a High Court to disclose data about the source of tweets about a whistleblower. The tweets, which included allegations of insurance fraud, are...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Mintz Levin Health Care Qui Tam Update: Recent Developments & Unsealed Cases - September 2015

Trends & Analysis - Since our last Qui Tam Update, we have identified 39 health-related False Claims Act (“FCA”) qui tam cases that have been unsealed. Of those cases...more

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Whistleblower Must Identify the Law, Rule, or Regulation Violated by the Employer Prior to the Summary Judgment Stage, District...

The U.S. District Court of New Jersey recently reaffirmed that under New Jersey’s whistleblower law, the Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA), a plaintiff asserting that her employer’s conduct is incompatible with a...more

Carlton Fields

Kane v. Healthfirst and the 60-day Repayment Rule

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Case: Kane v.Healthfirst, Inc. et al. and U.S. v. Continuum Health Partners Inc. et al., case number1:11-cv-02325, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. As part of the Affordable Care Act...more

Nossaman LLP

New Developments on Interplay between Whistleblower Actions and Other Attacks on Hospital Discipline

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Hospitals and their medical staffs may consider it time to dust off their bylaws, in consideration of a recent legal development in a peer review proceeding. Last year, the California Supreme Court held that Mark T....more

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Provider Alleges Retaliatory Use of Medicare Payment Suspension

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A federal court has ordered discovery regarding the circumstances of a Medicare payment suspension by CMS only one week after failed settlement negotiations between a cardiology practice and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to...more

Proskauer - Whistleblowing & Retaliation

Trends in N.J. Whistleblowing and Retaliation Law – 2014 Roundup

2014 was another busy year for developments in whistleblowing and retaliation law in New Jersey. This blog post summarizes noteworthy state and federal cases for employers to consider in the new year....more

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PJP Health to Pay $300,000 to Settle EEOC Age Discrimination and Retaliation Lawsuit

Insurance Sales Company Harassed and Terminated Employees Based on Their Age, Federal Agency Charged - NEW YORK - PJP Heath, Inc. will pay a total of $300,000 to three former employees to settle a lawsuit for age-based...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

California Decision Allows Physician to Challenge Sham Peer Review as Whistleblower Retaliation

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In Fahlen v. Sutter Central Valley Hospitals, the California Supreme Court found: A physician is not required to first exhaust his administrative remedies through the medical staff appeals process in order to...more

Nossaman LLP

The Fahlen Floodgates: Straight Talk about Two-Track Peer Review

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The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled on February 20, 2014, that a physician claiming that her/his privileges were terminated in retaliation for whistleblowing to safeguard patient care and safety does not have to...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Mintz Levin Health Care Qui Tam Update - Recent Developments and Unsealed Cases

Trends and Analysis: ..We have identified 20 health care-related qui tam cases unsealed in July 2013. About a quarter of those were filed in 2013. ..Among the cases unsealed in July, the government has declined to...more

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

Help at Home, Inc. to Pay $302,500 to Settle EEOC Lawsuit Charging Sexual Harassment, Retaliation

Company Terminated Three Women When They Complained of Sexual Harassment by Their Female Manager, Federal Agency Charged - ST. LOUIS - Help at Home, Inc., a Chicago-based home healthcare provider that also does...more

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