In Prest v. Petrodel Resources Ltd the Supreme Court confirmed that the separate legal personality of a company cannot be disregarded unless the company is being abused for a purpose that is in some relevant respect improper. Specifically, the Court...
Group health plan sponsors turn their attention to completing 2013 tasks, implementing upcoming 2014 changes, preparing for the ACA Shared Responsibility requirement in 2015, and documenting recent extensive plan changes....
In North Carolina, we set up managed care organizations (MCOs) to manage behavioral health care for Medicaid. For the past year, I have been blogging that the MCOs’ payment arrangement with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is...
Does your company use Google Apps for Business? Are you a health care provider, health plan, or health care clearinghouse (“Covered Entity” or “Covered Entities”) subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”)? If you...
Today, December 18, 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Notice of Violation (NOV) of the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) to e-Biofuels, LLC and its parent company Imperial Petroleum, Inc. alleging that...
The case of Halsey v. Milton Keynes General NHS Trust [2004] 1 WLR 3002 was a landmark case on the way in which the courts treated mediation. That case clarified that an unreasonable refusal to participate in alternative dispute resolution, such as...
Wisconsin's capitol city has joined the small but growing list of cities and states to prohibit discrimination against job applicants based on their employment status. On December 4, the Madison Common Council amended the city's Equal Opportunities...
As technology advances, distracted driving has become a bigger problem. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that more than 1,060 people are injured and more than nine people die each day in the United States in accidents...
Since her confirmation as Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“the SEC”), Mary Jo White has made clear that her administration will focus on identifying and investigating accounting abuses at publicly traded companies, a focus that...
