Health Law Alert

If you purchased a desktop or laptop computer with a DVD or CD drive during the period of April 2003 to December 2008, you may be eligible for an award under the Optical Disk Drive Antitrust Settlement. This Settlement is the second of two that have been entered into stemming […]

The Internal Revenue Code provides that interest on bonds issued by governmental or 501(c)(3) organizations may be exempt from tax if, in addition to satisfying other requirements, not more than 10 percent of the proceeds of the debt issuance for governmental entities (or five percent for 501(c)(3) organizations) are used […]

On August 18, 2016, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a new initiative to more widely investigate breaches affecting fewer than 500 individuals (referred to as “small breaches”). Prior to this announcement, OCR investigated all breaches reported by covered entities that affect 500 or more individuals (considered to be […]

Usually when a patient sues a health care professional, the patient seeks health care services elsewhere. But that is not always the case. When the patient wishes to continue receiving services after suing a health care professional, it is not uncommon for the health care professional to wish to terminate […]

This summer, the United States Supreme Court handed down a ruling that will impact the way health care providers in Nebraska and Iowa conduct blood alcohol tests at the request of law enforcement. In Birchfield v. North Dakota, the Court ruled that a blood test conducted at the request of […]