Duty to an HIV-Positive Employee's Spouse: Did you know that Maryland's highest appellate court recently decided that an employer had no duty to an employee's spouse either to test
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
It is undeniable that email has revolutionized modern business. Organizations have ceased filling their files with paper correspondence, and now conduct most of their business via email.
Health care providers that transmit health information in electronic form, large health plans (those with over $5,000,000 in premiums or claims) and billing clearinghouses were required to comply w
Emergency Room Time and Triage Data Discovery: Did you know that an Illinois appellate court recently decided that triage acuity designations and time data related to patient treat
On April 18, 2005, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued proposed regulations that clarify the liability of a covered entity (health care providers that transmit health informati
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.
Michael Powell and David Fishman spoke at the Baltimore Waterfront and Transporation Hub Development Conference, which was held at Pier 5 Hotel.Other speakers included:
Eighteen states have opted for electric utility deregulation, induding most of the states in the northeast from Virginia to Maine, and all of the mid-Atlantic.
Hospital's Failure to Inform Patients of Doctor's Prior Lawsuits: Did you know that a Michigan court recently ruled that the failure of a hospital to inform a patient of the patien
During the last decade, California and a number of other states, including Maryland, have passed laws legalizing or otherwise protecting the use of marijuana for medical purposes.
The Maryland Self-Referral law prohibits health care providers, including physicians, from referring patients to a health care entity in which the referring provider has a financial interest.
Health care providers, administrators and insurers often find themselves testifying before regulatory bodies or otherwise being questioned under oath, for example, in a deposition.
