Publications

In less than one week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (“CFPB”) prepaid account rule will take effect. The final, effective version of the rule comes after a lengthy rulemaking process spanning several years, numerous amendments, and delayed effective dates. The end result will be that, after the rule finally does […]

In June of 2018, California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”), the most comprehensive data privacy law to date in the United States. The CCPA originally began as a ballot initiative. However, the sponsor of that ballot initiative withdrew the measure when the California legislature agreed to pass […]

Remember what you were doing in late November 2016? Me neither. But you may remember around that time analyzing the salary levels for your employees who are classified as exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime requirements under one of the “white collar” exemptions (i.e. the executive, administrative, professional, […]

As a result of the major flooding across the Midwest, President Trump declared a state of “major disaster” in Nebraska on Friday, March 22, and in Iowa on Monday, March 25. This designation brings several special tools for employers to assist their employees who have been impacted. PTO Donation Policy […]

On February 8, 2019, the Iowa Supreme Court, in Colwell v. Iowa Department of Human Services1 , limited dentists’ billing rights under Iowa Medicaid (“Medicaid”) by concluding that dentists cannot charge Medicaid patients when the managed care organization (“MCO”) denies reimbursement for covered services. In 2014, Iowa’s Medicaid expansion program […]