The omnibus spending bill passed by Congress in December 2022 included the “Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act”, a.k.a. the PUMP Act.
In 2022, the Maryland Legislature passed the Time to Care Act (TCA), which affects every Maryland employee and requires contributions from almost all Maryland employers with 15 or more employees, o
Scam letters soliciting payment to renew your federal trademark registrations or to obtain an additional registration continue to be appealing and sophisticated — but don’t fall for them.
On July 20, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a Special Fraud Alert entitled “OIG Alerts Practitioners To Exercise Caution When Entering
Buprenorphine: Did you know that the Consol-idated Appropriations Act, 2023 (CAA 2023) revoked the federal requirement that individual health care practitioners need to obtain an a
The decisions of boards of directors in Maryland, including boards of directors of health care corporations, are generally entitled to the benefit of something called “the business judgment rule.”
With strong bipartisan support, Congress passed the Maximizing Outcomes through Better Investments in Lifesaving Equipment (MOBILE) Health Care Act at the end of 2022, which greatly expands the abi
On December 21, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a rule (Proposed Rule) that: would adopt new Health Insurance Portability and Account-ability Act (HIPAA) standards
In December 2022, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) issued a new bulletin warning Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) covered entities and business associates about the use o
It is not an infringement of a copyright for the “owner of a copy of a computer program” to make a copy of the software for the purpose of having an archive to use if the origin
Works created by artificial intelligence (A.I.) raise two core copyright questions: is the work an infringement, and is the work protectable? Some answers are easier than others, and what A.I.
