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On December 10, 2013, Judge Edmond Chang of the Northern District of Illinois certified a class of plaintiffs who filed a proposed class action against NorthShore University Health System (formerly Evanston Northwestern Healthcare) on behalf of all...

Shia LaBeouf's new film, "HowardCantour.com," is coming under fire for allegedly plagiarizing content from a graphic novel. Graphic novelist Daniel Clowes is accusing LaBeouf of ripping work directly from his comic, entitled "Justin M.

Several clarifications have been provided with regard to subordinated debt instruments. On 30 November 2013, amendments to the Bank of Russia’s Regulation 395-P, “On the Methodology of Determination of the Amount and Assessment of Sufficiency of...

Recently here at McNees, we have been involved with dealer issues that have focused the light on the forms used in the vehicle sales process. There are numerous forms that need to be used to document the final sale of a vehicle, such as the......

The Illinois Supreme Court has announced that it expects to file opinions tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. Central time in three civil cases. They are......
By: Sedgwick LLP

Introduction - In Torre Asset Funding Ltd v Royal Bank of Scotland Plc [2013] EWHC 2670 (Ch), the claimant (“Torre”) was a lender in a financing structure which included super senior, senior, senior mezzanine, junior mezzanine B1 (“B1”) and junior...

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...

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