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New York Law Journal

Government Officials, and Insurers, in Fight Against COVID-19 Fraud

In his Insurance Fraud column, Evan H. Krinick discusses fraud related to the COVID-19 pandemic relating to everything from loans under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to mis-labeled and missing personal protective equipment (PPE).
9 minute read

National Law Journal

Supreme Court Blesses Trump Rule Curtailing Obamacare's Contraceptive Mandate

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, said in dissent: "Today, for the first time, the court casts totally aside countervailing rights and interests in its zeal to secure religious rights to the nth degree."
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Justices' Fresh Views on 'Severability' Could Boost Obamacare Defenders

When a federal law has no severability clause, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said in a ruling Monday, there is a "strong" presumption of that the unlawful part be removed without disturbing the entirety of the law. The court next term will address the severability of the ACA's individual mandate.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Opioid Dispensing Guidelines: Pharmacists' Role in Combating Epidemic

Pennsylvania has been working on improving things as to the dispensing and the use of opioids for the treatment of pain for several years. Up until a few years ago, Pennsylvania was only one of a handful of states that did not have a functioning prescription drug monitoring program.
6 minute read

Law.com

What the 4th Circuit's Recent Rulings Mean for Health Care Providers, Insurers and the FCA

While regulatory ambiguity may shield health care providers from liability under the FCA in some circumstances, due diligence should be taken to ensure compliance with Medicare reporting requirements.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

DeSantis Signs Underage Abortion Parental Consent Law

Senate President Bill Galvano praised the measure and said parents need to be involved when their underage daughters consider having abortions.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

COVID-19 and Workers' Compensation in New York

It is undoubted that new cases will occur, and not only because of the increase in testing: the risk is particularly great for those whose jobs require in-person interaction (i.e., they cannot work from home) and who continue to rely on public transportation to get to work.
13 minute read

Daily Report Online

Justices Toss Class Action Challenging Hospital Liens Based on Preset Charges

The putative class action was one of several challenging hospitals' use of standard "chargemaster" prices to file liens against patients' potential recovery in tort actions.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Reimagine the Role of Police

A gradual process of strategically reallocating resources, funding, and responsibility away from police toward community-based models of safety, support, and prevention will go a long way towards bettering our society.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

'The Entire ACA Thus Must Fall,' Trump's DOJ Demands at US Supreme Court

Responding to the Trump administration's move to scrap Obamacare in the middle of a pandemic, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra asserted: "Now is not the time to rip away our best tool to address very real and very deadly health disparities in our communities."
7 minute read

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