2022 Resolutions: What Healthcare Practices Need To Tackle In the New Year
Overview - On Dec. 19, 2025, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a major amendment to New York’s Civil Practice Law and Rules (CPLR) § 1007, marking a major shift in third‑party practice in New York State...more
Senate Bill 293 (SB 293), codified at Section 23.303 of the Texas Government Code, requires Texas courts to follow a strict schedule for hearings and rulings on motions for summary judgment. Effective September 1, 2025, SB...more
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision invalidating the IEEPA tariffs, attention is now shifting from whether the tariffs were lawful to how companies can actually recover the bil-lions of dollars at stake. As discussed...more
Taxpayers that paid underpayment interest or failure-to-file or failure-to-pay penalties between January 20, 2020, and July 10, 2023, may have viable refund claims. In some cases, the potential recoveries are substantial, but...more
Effective as of March 2026, covered employers must either register for, or certify their exemption from, the New York State Secure Choice Savings Program (“New York Secure Choice” or the “Program”)....more
On December 24, 2025, the U.S. Postal Service (“USPS”) finalized a rule adding Section 608.11, “Postmarks and Postal Possession,” to the Domestic Mail Manual....more
On February 19, 2026, we attended the Circular Action Alliance (“CAA”) California EPR Update Webinar. CAA is the Producer Responsibility Organization (“PRO”) implementing California’s packaging EPR law, Senate Bill (“SB”) 54....more
Legal notices are integral to exercising rights under contracts and must be sent timely and via an appropriate method in order to be valid. These communications may include rent payments, default notices, termination...more
If you’re the kind of person who waits until April 15 to drop off your federal tax return in a blue mailbox, or who trusts a mailed check will always be dated the day you dropped it in the slot, the U.S. Postal Service just...more
European competition investigations seldom unfold in straight lines. They expand, contract, and change direction as new facts surface and new actors enter the frame. ...more
By April 18, 2026, New York construction litigation will operate on a faster—and far less forgiving—timeline. The Avoiding Vexatious Overuse of Impleading to Delay (the “AVOID Act”), signed into law on December 19, 2025,...more
Takeaway: Public bodies should treat a FOIA request as “received” the moment it enters their email system, not when it is discovered after being quarantined, filtered, or otherwise delayed internally. To avoid missing...more
The new AVOID Act is reshaping file handling overnight, making early investigation and rapid third party action not just smart, but essential. Join Goldberg Segalla partners Jessica Erickson, Ryan Mahoney, and attorneys...more
Effective Date: December 24, 2025 Scope: All Tax and Legal Deadlines (IRS and State Filings, Payments, Legal Notices, Contracts) - For decades, taxpayers and legal professionals have relied on the "mailbox rule": if a...more
Following our previous November 12, 2025, alert, the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) released the template it was required to design for the California “Know Your Rights” notice pursuant to under SB 294....more
There is truth to the proverb that “a closed mouth catches no flies.” In Randolph v. Trustees of the California State University, 3rd App. Dist. C102901 (Jan. 15, 2026), the defendants sat silent when the trial court set a...more
Court Upholds Hearing Officer’s Decision and Grants Full Attorneys’ Fees After School Misses IDEA Appeal Deadline - A.L.L., A.L. v. Laboratory Charter School, 2025 WL 3269941 (E.D. Pa. Nov. 24, 2025) - The parent, A.L., filed...more
If California’s SB 54 rulemaking process feels familiar, that’s because it is. CalRecycle has withdrawn proposed implementing regulations—signaling continued recalibration of one of the most complex packaging Extended...more
Effective December 24, 2025, the US Postal Service (USPS) implemented a new rule that fundamentally changes how postmarks are defined under the Internal Revenue Code’s so-called “mailbox rule.” Section 7502 provides a...more
1. Treatment with an authorized provider tolls the statute of limitations, although treatment occurred without employer/carrier’s knowledge and billed to private health insurance - Ortiz v. Winn-Dixie, Inc., 402 So. 3d 301...more
As reported in our July 17, 2025, blog item, the United Kingdom’s (UK) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) began a public consultation on July 14, 2025, on its proposals to extend the UK REACH...more
In an email USPTO Alert that was distributed this afternoon, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that its offices will be closed on December 24 and December 26. Because December 25 is listed as one of eleven...more
Unlike virtually all other types of plans, 457(b) plans maintained by (non-governmental) tax-exempt entities—such as many charities, hospitals, insurers, and private universities—did not receive the benefit of an extended...more
On December 1, 2025, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced in an enforcement advisory that it would not enforce SB 261 against covered companies that do not submit climate-related financial risk reports (Risk...more
Minnesota’s paid leave program goes into effect January 1, 2026, which will be here sooner than you think and there are important deadlines to be aware of. Employers who have not yet done so should...more