Publications

A recent Georgia case brings to light the fraudulent practice of physicians allowing insufficiently qualified or completely unqualified persons to perform clinical services and documenting the services as though the physician performed them. The practice may go undetected for a time due to improper password sharing in order to allow […]

As discussed in a June 2015 Baird Holm Health Law Advisory, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that it would expand the use of its enforcement resources against health care employers, focusing on (among other things) workplace violence, musculoskeletal disorders related to patient handling, bloodborne pathogens, tuberculosis, and slips, […]

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

In May 2016, the Nebraska Department of Banking & Finance (the “Department”) adopted a new rule (the “Rule”) for private fund advisers, permitting certain fund advisers to be excluded from the definition of “investment adviser” under the Securities Act of Nebraska (the “Act”). Generally, under the Act, it is unlawful […]

Cause-related marketing is nothing new. Most consider the cause-related marketing program by American Express to be the forefront of this “win-win” money-raising structure. In 1983, American Express offered to its customer to donate a penny for every American Express card transaction and to donate a dollar for every new card […]