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Employer-Sponsored Retirement Plans Must Make RMDs Timely – Even For Participants Who Don’t Come Forward to Apply for Benefits

Section 401(a)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code generally requires tax qualified retirement plans to make required minimum distributions (RMDs) to participants by their “required beginning dates” (R

Maryland Legal Alert - January 2018

In This Issue: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE RELEASES NEW MILITARY LENDING ACT GUIDANCE

Online Service Providers Must Now Electronically Register their DMCA Agent

Newly implemented rule changes now require electronic filing for best protection from online copyright infringement liability.

Gordon Feinblatt Welcomes Three New Associates

Baltimore, Maryland -- The law firm of Gordon Feinblatt LLC is pleased to announce that three new Associates have joined the Firm.

Doctor’s Employer Left Holding the Bag

In 2010, Yolanda Harris underwent a laparoscopic hysterectomy that did not go as planned.  Ms. Harris sued her surgeon, Dr.

Did You Know?

RICO: Did you know that a federal appellate court has ruled that payment for an unnecessary heart procedure is a recoverable injury under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organ

FDA Clears First Digital Therapeutic Device

In September, Pear Therapeutics received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the reSET® mobile medical application.

Patient Transportation Safe Harbor

On January 6, 2017, a new safe harbor to the federal anti-kickback statute went into effect.

Cross-Plan Offsetting

A version of this article was published by The Daily Record on July 24, 2018.

New Requirements for Informed Consent

Two recent state court decisions indicate that the burden for patients receiving sufficient information to give informed consent remains squarely with physicians, even as more medical services are

Religiously Affiliated Hospitals are Exempt from ERISA

Federal legislation, known as ERISA, protects participants in pension plans through a number of safeguards, including minimum funding and vesting requirements, insuring of plan benefits, reporting

Ownership of Videos Taken with Remote Cameras

Because cameras and other video recording devices are everywhere, you should give more thought to who owns the copyright in what is captured by those devices.  Generally, the “photographer” is

F. Kirk Kolodner and Carol Ghingher Cooper Join Gordon Feinblatt's Private Client Services and Litigation Teams

We are pleased to announce that F. Kirk Kolodner and Carol Ghingher Cooper have joined the Firm's Private Client Services and Litigation Teams.

Rethinking Recruitment Agency Agreements

Many employers utilize recruitment agencies to fulfill some or all of their staffing needs.  Not surprisingly, recruitment agencies often present the employer with the agency’s standard agreem

Rising Tides: Charting Maryland's New Climate Change Path

Hosted by MACo's Planners Affiliate

IRS Says ACA Penalty Letters Will Be Coming Soon

The IRS recently announced that, by the end of 2017, it will be notifying employers it determines failed to satisfy the employer shared responsibility requirements under the Affordable Care Act for

Delaware Bans Salary History Inquiries

In June 2017, Delaware enacted a statute, which becomes effective on December 14, 2017, that bars employers and their agents from requesting the compensation history of job applicants.

A Deed Signed without a Grantee May Be Valid

In Carino v. Monacco Exclusive Renovation, LLC, No. 0383, Sept. Term, 2015, 2016 WL 1321210 (Md. Ct.

Growing Marijuana in Your Bathtub May Not Get You Evicted

The Court of Appeals held in Chateau Foghorn LP v. Hosford, 455 Md.