Publications

The Second Session of the 104th Nebraska Legislature adjourned sine die on April 20, 2016. Of the 862 bills considered by the Legislature in 2016 (446 this session and 406 carryover bills), it enacted 216. It enacted 66 additional bills via amendments to other bills. The highlights of the sixty-day […]

In a press release issued on February 2, 2016, the European Commission announced that it had reached an agreement with the U.S. on a new framework for transatlantic data sharing. According to the press release, the new agreement intends to protect the privacy rights of Europeans who have their data […]

2015: The Boom of New Generic Top-Level Domains In 2015, domain name real estate exploded, with several hundred new top-level generic domain names (gTLDs) approved and introduced by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the agency that coordinates and maintains the worldwide web. New domain names were […]

A recent Idaho case includes important reminders for income guarantee arrangements with recruited physicians and the potential liability that the practice group and the hospital can face when processes aren’t established for identifying and verifying incremental expenses. The Stark exception for physician recruitment allows hospitals to provide income guarantees to […]

Recent Settlements On back to back days, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced two new settlements with significant dollars attached. On March 16 and March 17, 2016, OCR announced settlements with North Memorial Health Care of Minnesota ($1.55 million) and Feinstein Institute for Medical Research ($3.9 million), respectively. Both […]