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Mar 18, 2024 | Sixth Circuit Throws Out Minimum Wage Standards for Employees Who Drive Their Own Vehicles for Work
Last week, the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky & Tennessee, turned minimum wage law for employees who drive their personal vehicles for work on its head. While the decision specifically addressed pizza deliver...
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Mar 14, 2024 | Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: Using the Management Service Organization (MSO) Model in Health Care Arrangements
Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot® is a podcast and YouTube channel for physicians and health professionals that covers the legal issues and trends that affect the health care industry. Join host Ericka Adler as she welcomes new Roetzel shareholder Jonna...
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March 2024 | Navigating employees’ charged behavior in the health care workplace
As employers, it is unreasonable to expect that controversies outside the workplace will not intrude into it or to assume that employees will leave their opinions or biases at the door. Health care employers have the obligation to protect their emplo...
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Mar 11, 2024 | Supreme Court Issues Decision Finding TTD Compensation Can Be Terminated Based on MMI Prior to the Date of Industrial Commission Hearing
On March 5, 2024, the Ohio Supreme Court announced its decision in State ex rel. Dillon v Industrial Commission (Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-744). In so doing, the Court overruled 25-year precedent from its prior authority in State ex rel. Russell v....
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March 2024 | Management Services Organization (MSO) Checklist
This checklist addresses the formation and operation of management services organizations, often called MSOs. It provides guidance to investors and healthcare practices on how to legally structure MSO arrangements to benefit both parties. This checkl...
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March 2024 | Trends in buying and selling medical practices
Across the country, independent physician practices continue to sell to hospitals, private equity investors, insurance companies and other private professional buyers. According to the American Medical Association, the share of physicians working in...
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2024 | Practical Planning for Passwords
"'Digital assets' are increasingly important in today's world. However, gaining access to these assets can be difficult in the event of incapacity or death...." Continue reading by clicking View PDF below.
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Feb 29, 2024 | City of Columbus Bans Consideration of Salary History in the Hiring Process
Beginning on March 1, 2024, the City of Columbus will ban consideration of salary and wage history during the hiring process for all employers in the City with fifteen or more employees. In so doing, Columbus joins a growing list of states and poli...
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Feb 29, 2024 | Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: Buying or Starting a Healthcare Practice: Which is Right for You?
Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot® is a podcast and YouTube channel for physicians and health professionals that covers the legal issues and trends that affect the health care industry. In this episode of the HealthLaw HotSpot, host Ericka Adler sits down...
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Feb 27, 2024 | Supreme Court to Rule on Estate Tax Valuation of Stock Purchased with Corporate-Owned Life Insurance Proceeds
If a shareholders agreement sets forth a fixed and determinable price that satisfies the requirements of Code Section 2703(b) and cases interpreting that term, then that price will be respected for federal estate tax valuation purposes. If it does no...
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Feb 21, 2024 | U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Releases 4 New Resource Documents Addressing Students With Disabilities Under Section 504
On February 20, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released four (4) new resource documents on students with disabilities, reminding students with disabilities and K-12 schools (as well as colleges and universities...
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Feb 20, 2024 | Substitute Version of Bill in Ohio House That Could Dramatically Change Eminent Domain Law Recently Accepted by Committee
Update - February 2024: We have been following the progress of House Bill (“HB”) 64 in Ohio’s 135th General Assembly (formerly HB 698 in the 134th General Assembly) (the “Bill”), which proposes numerous changes to Ohio’s eminent domain statutes. A su...
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Feb 15, 2024 | Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: Green Card Delays Creating Challenges For Physicians
Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot® is a podcast and YouTube channel for physicians and health professionals that covers the legal issues and trends that affect the health care industry. In this week's episode of HealthLaw HotSpot, host Ericka Adler sits d...
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Feb 8, 2024 | Ohio Appellate Court Holds Hazardous Material Transportation Act Does Not Preempt Ohio Products Liability Act
On February 5, 2024, an Ohio appellate court issued a decision that will permit plaintiffs in products liability actions to bring state law claims for injuries caused by defective products used in the transfer and storage of hazardous materials. Einb...
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Feb 6, 2024 | Is the Title IX Final Rule Finally Coming?
On June 23, 2022, Title IX’s 50th anniversary, the U.S. Department of Education announced its proposed changes to the implementing regulations concerning how schools must handle sex discrimination matters, including sexual harassment.  Proposed regul...
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Feb 1, 2024 | Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: CMS Enforcement of the Good Faith Estimate Portion of the No Surprises Act
Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot® is a podcast and YouTube channel for physicians and health professionals that covers the legal issues and trends that affect the health care industry. In this episode of the HealthLaw Hotspot, fellow Roetzel health care...
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January 2024 | Protect your time and money from legal diligence through closing
"You've decided to sell, found the potential buyer, showed them the basics of your operation, let them review financials, agreed to basic terms and, finally, signed the letter of intent (LOI). That's an accomplishment on its own, but like most milest...
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Jan 25, 2024 | OSHA Electronic Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements Expanded to Certain Employers
Effective January 1, 2024, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) expands its electronic recordkeeping and reporting requirements for certain employers in designated industries. The regulation, “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injur...
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Jan 18, 2024 | Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: Healthcare Practice Lease Negotiations: Avoid Missing Out on Potential Opportunities
Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot® is a podcast and YouTube channel for physicians and health professionals that covers the legal issues and trends that affect the health care industry. In this episode of Roetzel’s HealthLaw HotSpot, host Ericka Adler wel...
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Jan 16, 2024 | New Illinois Law Requires Larger Employers to Give Transit Benefits to Employees
Toward the end of 2023, Illinois enacted the Transportation Benefits Program Act. This Act, which became effective January 1, 2024, requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide their employees with a pre-tax commuter benefit. In this regar...