The 2024 Final Rule is based on the NPRM and comments received in response to it. While the Rule applies broadly to nearly every healthcare industry sector, this article addresses its impact on ...

Below is this week’s congressional update by BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team. We’ll continue to post in weeks when both chambers of Congress are in session. President Joe Biden will travel to New ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued on May 8, 2024, a final rule to address unreasonable risks of injury to health EPA identified caused by ...

Frederick A. Acomb, James Woolard, Jr. On May 16, 2024, the United States Supreme Court in Smith v. Spizzirri addressed whether district courts are required to stay a lawsuit pending arbitration, or ...

Keypoint: The Minnesota bill contains several unique requirements and provisions, including a novel right to question the result of a profiling decision, privacy policy provisions that increase ...

As a lawyer, I have exclusively represented long-term care healthcare providers for over ten years. I have gained useful insight into how people plan—or, in many cases, fail to plan—for the ...

On May 16, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved amendments to Regulation S-P to address unauthorized access to or use of “customer information” (a new defined term).

On May 17, 2024, the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Erik Gerding, and the Chief Accountant, Paul Munter, issued a statement regarding ...

I f you’re thinking about hiring one of the two biggest national payroll providers as your 401(k) plan’s thirdparty administrator (TPA) think again. As an ERISA attorney with 25 years of experience ...

On May 9, the Governor of Maryland approved SB 541 (the “Act”) which enacted the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act of 2024, setting forth new provisions for ...

This case originated as a challenge to the CFPB's payday lending rule which was defeated in a summary judgment in favor of the CFPB and which CFSA appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth ...

Iowa law clearly states that “parents with joint legal custody” means both parents jointly have legal custodial rights and responsibilities toward their child and neither parent has legal custodial ...