Last week, CMS and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published two reports concerning Medicare contractor developments. In the Medicare Fee for Service National Recovery Audit Program Quarterly Newsletter, CMS reported that, during the...
Sex discrimination charges may be on the rise in the coming months, if the EEOC has its way. In a recent interview with Law 360, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner Chai Feldblum expressed disbelief regarding the lack of awareness and...
A BVI Business Company (BC) has a separate legal personality from its members and over the course of its life the activities which it undertakes are recorded in documents that were created or entered into on its behalf. The documents and records that...
Given that the H-1B visa cap was, once again, met quickly, many U.S. employers are scrambling to figure out how to hire and retain the foreign national employees that they need. As we recently reported, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services...
On May 3, 2014, the Connecticut General Assembly passed House of Representatives Bill No. 5559, amending, inter alia, General Statutes Section 10-66q (the bill, as amended and passed, also creates a new apprenticeship grant program under the...
A New Hampshire attorney was arrested for disorderly conduct Monday after he complained longer than his allotted two minutes at a school board meeting about a novel on his 14-year-old daughter's honors English class reading list.
In this session, Deloitte Consulting’s Will Sarni joins us to talk about water as both a business risk and opportunity. Will is Deloitte’s Practice Leader for Enterprise Water Strategy, and you will find his insights into the way in which businesses...
Loss of Confidential Electronic Data: New Risks for Financial Professionals - Recent highly publicized incidents of "hacking" of sensitive customer information should cause accountants and other financial professionals to re-evaluate the risks to...
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California certified a Rule 23(b)(2) class for injunctive and declaratory relief but denied plaintiff’s motion for class certification under Rule 23(b)(3) because plaintiff failed to present a...
Yesterday, the FTC announced that it has made its online Complaint Assistant easier to use for consumers who want to file a complaint with the FTC through their mobile device. While the CFPB has optimized its Spanish language website for mobile...
