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Health Care Alert
By Vanessa Burrows
Yesterday, Senate Democrats introduced the Protect Women’s Health from Corporate Interference Act of 2014, which would apply to group health plans, plan sponsors, and health insurance issuers. The bill responds to the United Sta...
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FDA Alert
On July 1, 2014, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released several documents applicable to compounding pharmacies, which are in the business of preparing custom-tailored drugs intended for patients. The first document is draft interim guidance...
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Corporate Compliance Alert
On Friday, June 27, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the unsealing and filing of a civil fraud lawsuit against Continuum Health Partners and others for their delay in fully repaying nearly $1 million in Medic...
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Employment Services Alert
By Nathan Pangrace
On June 30, 2014, the Supreme Court ruled that Hobby Lobby and other family owned and closely held for-profit companies can opt out of the Affordable Care Act's requirement to provide no-cost prescription contraception in most...
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Franchise Law Alert
By Matthew D. Austin, Partner
Labor unions are targeting franchisees and the restaurant industry as a whole, and they are not alone. Worker centers, including Fast Food Forward and Worker’s Organizing Committee, are generally closely affiliated wi...
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Corporate Compliance Alert
By Nicole Hughes Waid, Partner
On June 25, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued the “Special Fraud Alert: Laboratory Payments to Referring Physicians.” Specifically, this Special Fraud Al...
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Employment Services Alert
By Nathan Pangrace, Associate
The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled on June 26, 2014 that President Obama’s three recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) were unconstitutional and therefore, invalid. The Court’...
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Corporate Compliance Alert
By Nicole Hughes Waid, Partner
Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed into law The Florida Information Protection Act of 2014 (FIPA) which requires companies to take reasonable measures to protect and secure data containing personal information in...
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Drug & Pharmacy Alert
By Christian M. Auty
The Department of Justice announced today that Omnicare Inc. has agreed to pay $124.24 million for offering improper incentives to skilled nursing facilities to induce the nursing facilities to select Omnicare as their pharmac...
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Employment Services Alert
By Matthew D. Austin, Partner
The Senate is considering amendments to federal benefits and labor laws that would make any retiree group health benefits vest upon retirement or the completion of 20 years of service.
The Bankruptcy Fairness and E...
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Corporate Compliance Alert
By Nicole Hughes Waid, Partner
Yesterday, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Loughrin v. United States, No. 13-316. Justice Kagan delivered the opinion of the Court, which held that in a prosecution for bank fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1344...
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Employment Services Alert
The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (“OSC”), has recently released an updated and instructive "Fact Patterns Flyer" (rev. June 2014), which includes many examples of citizensh...
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Wealth Transfer & Succession Planning Alert
On June 12, 2014, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a Seventh Circuit decision that said inherited IRAs do not enjoy the protections of IRAs in bankruptcy proceedings.
The petitioner in Clark v. Rameker, Trustee, Hedi Heffron-Clark, inherited a...
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Insurance Alert
By Christopher Cotter
Ohio companies are able to operate their own locally based commercial insurance subsidiaries under legislation signed into law on June 17, 2014 by Ohio Governor John Kasich. House Bill 117 allows Ohio businesses to form a cap...
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Employment Services Alert
By David C. Strosnider, Partner
Background
Congress added Section 409A to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (“Section 409A”) as part of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004. Section 409A dramatically increased the federal regulati...
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Corporate Compliance Alert
By Thomas M. Larned, Of Counsel
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police issued arrest warrants for former Cryptometrics Inc. CEO Robert Barra and former COO Dario Bernini, charging both with violations of the CFPOA. Details of the bribery scheme involve...
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Employment Services Alert
The recent IRS Notice 2014-19 provides much needed guidance on how qualified retirement plans should treat the marriages of same-sex couples following the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor. The Windsor decision invalidated Section...
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Drug & Pharmacy Alert
By Brian Dickerson
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued a Supplemental Special Advisory Bulletin concerning Independent Charity Patient Assistance Programs (PAPs). The Supplemental Bul...
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Corporate Compliance Alert
By Brian E. Dickerson, Partner
In a decision with broad implications for any company doing business overseas, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has become the first U.S. appeals court to attempt to define the term “instrumentality...
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Employment Services Alert
An appellate court has ruled that the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (“BWC”) violated Ohio law by developing and maintaining an unlawful rating system under which excessive premium discounts were given to group-rated employers at the expense of...