The Baltimore City Council recently passed three bills regarding landlord-tenant matters. Two of the bills have become law, while the other faced a mayoral veto.
Putting portions of someone else’s material in your own creative work, even in jest, is not always an allowable Fair Use and may infringe their copyright.
The partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex in Surfside, FL, on June 24, 2021, is a human tragedy on a scale not previously experienced for such a building failure in the
On July 1, 2021, the Court of Special Appeals (CSA) held that in a sale of business assets that includes both real property and other types of property, the state recordation and transfer taxes, an
The 2021 Maryland Legislative Session established a host of new requirements that will impact health care providers and insurers in the State. Here are summaries of some of the new legislation.
1. The Maryland Health Care Commission (HCC) now offers a virtual Telehealth Readiness Assessment tool, which takes about 20 minutes to complete, for small practices to determine t
In the latest effort to improve transparency in health care costs, Congress passed the “No Surprises Act” (the Act) in December 2020 to protect patients from receiving large, unanticipated bills fo
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have issued new rules modernizing the Stark and Anti-Kickback laws.
On January 13, 2021, former President Trump signed into law the Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2020 (CHIRA), which repeals the McCarran Ferguson Act’s federal antitrust exemption for he
Purposefully misusing information obtained via a computer does not violate a key federal statute, so long as the information was obtained by someone with proper authority to access the information,
