Kristen Rasmussen

February 23, 2018 | Corporate Counsel

Ophthalmic pharmaceutical company Aerie Pharmaceuticals, based in Durham, North Carolina, has hired John LaRocca as general counsel, the company announced this week.

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February 22, 2018 | Corporate Counsel

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday upheld a $92,000 verdict for an in-house lawyer at a public utility in Memphis, Tennessee, whose request to work from home for 10 weeks while on bed rest due to pregnancy complications was denied.

By Kristen Rasmussen

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February 21, 2018 | Corporate Counsel

The Ohio Supreme Court has ordered Brian Maciak, the general counsel at Midas parent company TBC Corp., to undergo a two-year stayed suspension after working as an in-house lawyer in both Florida and Texas while suspended in Ohio for failing to satisfy continuing legal education requirements.

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February 20, 2018 | Daily Report Online

Byung J. “BJay” Pak was sworn in on Friday as the top law enforcement officer for the Northern District of Georgia, becoming the state's first Asian-American U.S. attorney.

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February 20, 2018 | National Law Journal

ALM talked with Peter Swire, senior counsel at Alston & Bird and privacy and cybersecurity expert at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Scheller College of Business, about some of the legal and data privacy issues surrounding the new, data-driven health care delivery systems. These include the proposed merger between CVS Health and Aetna Inc., as well as the health initiative that Amazon.com, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. recently announced for its employees.

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February 14, 2018 | National Law Journal

Insurance commissioners in California and Colorado recently announced plans to scrutinize Aetna's practices for granting and denying health care claims—developments that in and of themselves are unlikely to be deal breakers in the insurance giant's proposed $69 billion merger with CVS Health, corporate lawyers say.

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February 12, 2018 | Corporate Counsel

M. Lewis Kinard has been named general counsel, assistant corporate secretary and executive vice president at the Dallas-based American Heart Association. He succeeds a retiring Lynne Darrouzet, who is of counsel to the global health nonprofit organization's executive management.

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February 12, 2018 | Corporate Counsel

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights offers pointers for how to avoid cyber extortion, which involves cybercriminals demanding money to stop or delay their malicious activities that often include stealing sensitive data or disrupting services.

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February 09, 2018 | New York Law Journal

Under a 30-day budget amendment that Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced, 11 fentanyl analogs will be added to the state controlled substances schedule and the New York health commissioner will have the authority to add to the state controlled substances list new drugs that are added to the federal schedule.

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February 07, 2018 | Corporate Counsel

Aetna has sued Kurtzman Carson Consultants, blaming the claims administrator for mailings that disclosed the name and condition of thousands of HIV patients. KCC responded by filing a suit of its own against Aetna, saying that the health insurance giant and its outside legal counsel, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, were responsible.

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