Emily Cousins

October 05, 2023 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The data breach occurred May 14, 2020. However government officials said Blackbaud waited until July 16, 2020, to announce the incident that affected more than 13,000 consumers.

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October 04, 2023 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Andrew Lieb, the complainant's attorney, said the police report is particularly damning. "I would be mortified if I was associated with a place like this," he said.

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October 03, 2023 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The first class action—against Coppertone—has survived a motion to dismiss.

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October 02, 2023 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"Medicare Advantage plans that submit false information to increase payments from CMS show blatant disregard for the integrity of these vital federal health care funds," Christian J. Schrank, deputy inspector general for investigations with the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services, said. "Such actions are an affront to the Medicare program and the millions of patients who rely on its services. Working with our law enforcement partners, our agency will continue to prioritize investigating alleged fraud that targets the Medicare Advantage program."

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September 29, 2023 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The defendants seek a declaration from the court stating that "it has not infringed Conair['s] trademark, trade dress and slogans, nor committed any acts of unfair competition under the Lanham Act by its advertisement, marketing, promotion, offer for sale and/or sale of authentic and genuine products."

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September 28, 2023 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"It's a really remarkable decision that set precedent," Nathan McGrath said.

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September 27, 2023 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"Absent any improvement whatsoever in [my client's health], they out of the blue do an about-face and declare [she] can work based primarily ... on a doctor three time zones away who wrote a five-page report," Ian O. Smith said. "For 22 years, I've been doing my best to counter that because ... under any standard, any reasonable person would view this as wrong."

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September 26, 2023 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The Senate vote was 31-2 and the House vote was 120-18.

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September 25, 2023 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The court was not fully in agreement, as Justice Gregory T. D'Auria dissented, arguing "no state interest justifies voiding previously valid in terrorem clauses on the ground of public policy" in this case.

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September 22, 2023 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"It was Teva's marketing—and not any medical breakthrough—that rationalized prescribing opioids for chronic pain and opened the floodgates of opioid use and abuse," the complaint alleged. "The result has been catastrophic."

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