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Employment Services Alert
As we described in our Alert of March 14, 2013, the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) imposes a fee on sponsors of self-funded plans and issuers of individual and group health insurance policies to pay for the research conducted by the Patient-Centered Out...
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Employment Services Alert
The Nassar decision should curtail employees asserting discrimination in anticipation of being fired or disciplined, and then claiming the discipline was in retaliation for complaining of discrimination. It should also lead to fewer frivolous retalia...
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FDA Alert
Generic drug makers may take comfort from the reasoning contained in the June 24, 2013, U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Mutual Pharmaceutical Co. v. Bartlett (Docket No. 12-0142). The decision eliminates virtually all lawsuits by injured patients agains...
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Employment Services Alert
In this holding, the Supreme Court specifically rejected the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) definition of a “supervisor” as someone who has the ability to exercise significant discretion over another employee’s daily work. The Court...
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Community Association Law Alert
HB 87 An Act Relating to Mortgage Foreclosures (Effective June 7, 2013)
The most significant aspect of this legislation is that it allows community associations to move mortgage foreclosures forward by requesting that the court enter an “order to...
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Lender Liability Compliance Alert
Chapter 5-14-040 requires Owners to notify all tenants in writing that under certain circumstances the tenant may be eligible for relocation assistance. The notice must be in English, Spanish, Polish and Chinese....
On May 29, 2013, The Municipal...
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Intellectual Property Alert
Companies, inventors and investors are advised to review any pending or issued patent directed to gene sequences and evaluate the patentability or validity of any gene sequence claims in view of this important decision by the Supreme Court.
The Su...
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FSMA Alert
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published the final rule that amends the prior notice requirements of the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act (FD&CA). Effective May 30, 2013, all prior notice submissions to FDA accompanying imported food intended...
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Corporate Compliance Alert
On May 8, 2013, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the unsealing of a multi-count criminal complaint against members of Direct Access Partners’ (DAP) Miami based Global Markets trading group and the Senior Vice President (SVP) of Banco de Desa...
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Corporate Compliance Alert
The Department of Justice (DOJ) very recently charged the nation's largest for-profit hospice chain, Vitas Innovative Hospice Care (Vitas), which is headquartered in Miami, with inappropriately admitting patients and billing Medicare for unnecessary...
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Employment Services Alert
On August 25, 2011, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a rule requiring all private sector employers to post workplace notices informing employees of their unionization rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The rule mand...
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Ohio Employment Services Alert
Ohio Governor John Kasich has proposed a one-time dividend of $1 billion (yes, billion with a B) for private and public employers that are state-funded for purposes of workers’ compensation coverage in Ohio. The Governor’s proposal is three-fold:...
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Corporate Compliance Alert
One unavoidable cost of doing business for organizations operating in complex regulatory environments is the establishment and implementation of an effective ethics and compliance program. To ensure that the compliance program is not simply a paper p...
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Ohio Employment Services Alert
Cuyahoga County Judge Richard McMonagle ruled on March 20, 2013, that the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) must refund $859 million to approximately 264,000 employers. Judge McMonagle ruled that these employers were overcharged for workers’...
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Employment Services Alert
The Affordable Care Act ("ACA") established the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (the "PCORI"), which has as its mission the engagement in comparative clinical research and reporting those comparisons to be used by patients, physicians, c...
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Employment Services Alert
On March 8, 2013, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) revealed the newly revised Employment Eligibility Verification form, Form I-9, with a revision date of "(Rev. 03/08/13) N." The newly revised Form I-9 makes several improvements desi...
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Ohio Estate Planning Alert
Effective March 27, 2013, Ohio will become one of the most asset protection-friendly states. The Ohio Legacy Trust Act ("Act") permits an individual to create and fund an asset protection trust ("APT") that will protect assets from the claims of cred...
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Estate Planning Alert
Effective March 27, 2013, Ohio will become one of the most asset protection-friendly states. The Ohio Legacy Trust Act (“Act”) permits an individual to create and fund an asset protection trust (“APT”) that will protect assets from the claims of cred...
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Small Business Alert
On Monday, February 25, 2013, the United States Small Business Administration (“SBA”) released proposed changes to the 504 and 7(a) loan programs. The primary purpose of these significant rule changes is to provide greater access to these loans by el...
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Public Entity Law Alert
A recent Ohio Appellate Court decision from the Eighth District highlights important distinctions to consider in any litigation matter that involves a political subdivision. In Ohio, a political subdivision is entitled to immunity; however, that immu...