Earlier this month, CMS posted three new documents related to the 2-midnight rule for inpatient admissions on its webpage for inpatient hospital reviews: new FAQs, as well as CMS directions for selecting hospital claims for probe audits and for...
Crowdfunding and the JOBS Act - "Crowdfunding" is a term commonly used to describe a method of raising money through the Internet. While crowdfunding can be used to raise funds for many things, it has long been impermissible in the United States...
On October 29 and November 12, members of Pullman & Comley, LLC’s Labor, Employment Law and Employee Benefits Department presented an intensive seminar to the Connecticut Automotive Retailers Association. Significant highlights included......
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced revisions to the rules under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR) that will apply to certain transactions involving the transfer of patent rights in the pharmaceutical and...
A decision by the United States Court of Federal Claims originally filed under seal and reissued on October 23, 2013 evidences an important trend in the substance over form doctrine created by the courts to recharacterize transactions for tax...
The December Visa Bulletin has been issued. The employment-based visa category for India retrogressed from June 15, 2008, to November 15, 2004. See State Department Visa Bulletin for December 2013.... By: Cozen O'Connor
Morton v. West Virginia Office of Ins. Com’r, 2013 WL 5508553, -- S.E.2d ---- (Oct. 4, 2013) (per curiam). Affirming Workers’ Compensation Board of Review’s denial of compensability. In Morton, the claimant injured her wrist and shoulder while...
A lawsuit that claims a California law firm conspired to harass two Costa Mesa politicians has taken a new turn with an allegation that one of the pols had a GPS device implanted on his car.
In August this year, Australian patent application 2003258753 (“the application”) directed to diesel fuel compositions was successfully opposed on the ground that the application did not disclose the best method of performing the invention known to...
Some areas of compliance are truly nascent. For a profession which is undergoing a radical change in terms of demand and new technologies, more research is needed and greater understanding of program measurements....
