Publications

In late October 2020, the Departments of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Labor (“DOL”), and Treasury (“DOT”) jointly released final regulations requiring group health plans and insurers to make available healthcare pricing to participants, beneficiaries, and the public. The regulations were issued in an effort to improve price transparency, give […]

When you are working with your lender to seek forgiveness of your Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) Loan, you should keep in mind your appeal rights should the Small Business Administration (“SBA”) make any number of adverse determinations regarding that PPP Loan.  In August 2020, the SBA issued Interim Final Rules […]

The 107th Nebraska Legislature will convene January 6, 2021.  There will be four senators entirely new to the legislative body.  Three more senators are returning after being term-limited, including the previous Speaker, Senator Mike Flood. Because it will be the first legislative session of the biennium, no bills carried over […]

Harts et al. v. County of Knox, 308 Neb. 1 (2020). In 2003, landowner Bernadette Tramp granted to H & H Cattle Co. (the “Feedlot”) an “impact easement.”  The impact easement waived zoning restrictions that precluded the Feedlot from constructing a facility within a particular distance from Bernadette’s residence.  Thereafter, […]

Cybersecurity appears to possess the rare common ground between seemingly increasingly combative political parties.  On December 4, 2020 President Trump signed into law the “Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020” (“IOT-CIA”).  The act enjoyed bipartisan support to push the security of IOT devices through the power of the […]