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March 2023

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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February 23, 2023

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: Malpractice Insurance: Understanding Health Care Coverage and Avoiding Common Mistakes

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. This week on the HealthLawHotSpot, Host Ericka Adler is joined by spe...

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Winter 2023

Transportation Defense Strikes Back: FAAAA preemption and the fight against plaintiff’s claims against transportation brokers and shippers

"In light of the current environment of heightened verdicts in cases involving serious bodily injury or death arising out of truck accidents, claimants are now asserting claims not only against the truck driver and motor carrier, but also against ent...

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February 17, 2023

Illinois Supreme Court Expands Exposure to Penalties Under Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act

The Illinois Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision today in the Cothron v. White Castle case, which interpreted the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). The decision is likely to have far-reaching and adverse implications...

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February 14, 2023

Court of Appeals Issues Significant Mineral Trespass Opinion Upholding Multi-Million-Dollar Future Damages Award

On January 18, 2023, in TERA, LLC v. Rice Drilling D, LLC, et al., --- N.E.3d ----, 2023-Ohio-273, the Seventh District Court of Appeals issued a key decision concerning mineral trespass law in Ohio. The court of appeals upheld the trial court’s summ...

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February 13, 2023

Think Early: How to Prepare for This Year’s New H-1B Filing Season

With a shortage of workers in many sectors of the U.S. professional labor market, employers continue to seek qualified candidates among the non-U.S.-citizen population, including recent graduates of U.S. colleges. Unfortunately, due to statutory l...

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February 2023

Infrastructure Projects - Unique Issues and Challenges

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February 09, 2023

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: Starting a Traditional or Concierge Practice: Legal, Financial and Operational Strategies

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. Do you want to start a traditional or concierge medical practice? Wha...

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2022

Survey of Recently Reported Cases in Real Property Law

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January 30, 2023

Developmental Delay Now Reaches Beyond Preschool

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine recently signed HB 554. Prior to passing, amendments unrelated to the bill’s original goal of helping with the teacher shortage were added, including expanding the definition of a “child with a disability” to include childre...

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January 26, 2023

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: Estate Planning for Health Care Providers: No Time Like The Present

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. Why do health care providers need to think about estate planning and...

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January 19, 2023

Proposed OSHA Rule Would Result in Changes to Inspection Procedures

OSHA recently proposed a rule which would revisit and revitalize the Obama Administration’s Fairfax Memo. Consequently, this recent proposal (RIN:1218-AD45) would likely result in more union-friendly changes to current OSHA inspection procedures....

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January 12, 2023

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: Using Social Media to Grow Your Health Care Practice and Educate Patients

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. Social media, especially YouTube is a popular way to promote health c...

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January 11, 2023

Management Services Organization (MSO) Checklist

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January 09, 2023

Ohio Eminent Domain: Supreme Court Opens Door for Agencies to Pay Less Compensation Through “Appraisal Shopping”

Under Ohio Revised Code 163.04, a condemning authority is required to make a good faith offer to purchase property it seeks to acquire at least 30 days before it may file an eminent domain lawsuit to take the property. If it fails to do so, its emine...

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January 06, 2023

EPA Approves New Standard for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments

On December 14, U.S. EPA issued a final rule adopting ASTM Standard E1527-21 for conducting Phase I environmental site assessments. Real estate developers, lenders and investors, and all purchasers of commercial property should take note of the ne...

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January 05, 2023

FTC Proposed Rule Would Ban Non-Competition Agreements

On Thursday, January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a proposed rule that would invalidate existing non-competition agreements and prohibit employers from entering into new non-competition agreements, with very limited exception...

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January 04, 2023

The Speak Out Act Ends the Silencing of Sexual Assault Victims Through Nondisclosure and Non-Disparagement Agreements

On December 7, 2022, the Speak Out Act (“Act”) was signed into law by President Biden to combat sexual assault and sexual harassment in the workplace and ensure that victims and survivors are free to disclose their abuse. The Act renders judicially u...

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January 03, 2023

Ohio Supreme Court Restores the Presumption of Regularity for Executive Session Deliberations

Public bodies rejoiced over the Ohio Supreme Court’s opinion in State of Ohio ex rel. Christopher Hicks v. Clermont County Board of Commissioners this past holiday season. The largely contentious case drew statewide attention and hinged upon one cruc...

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December 29, 2022

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: The End of COVID Waivers and Exceptions: What Now?

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. Many healthcare providers received waivers and exceptions due to the...