To combat abusive compensation practices such as those perpetrated in recent years by high-profile companies and their executives, Congress added a new Section 409A to the Internal Revenue Code.
Effective December 1, 2005, the SEC now requires that public companies filing Annual Reports on Form 10-K discuss their most significant risk factors in a new item of the Form 10-K and that these r
Effective December 17, 2005, the federal bank regulatory agencies finalized rules prohibiting their officers and employees from accepting compensation as an officer, an employee, a director or a co
Opponents of medical malpractice tort reform won a victory earlier this year when Wisconsin's highest court struck down that state's statutory cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cas
Two recent cases demonstrate that the maintenance or attempted acquisition by health care providers of too large a market share may lead to antitrust challenges.
Health care providers may now apply for a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number, the new identifier to be used in standard electronic health care transactions.