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Regulatory: When is a permanent injunction not permanent?

For more than 30 years, Medicare has kept the payments it makes to individual physicians confidential based upon a permanent injunction that was entered in 1979 by the Middle District of Florida in Florida Medical Assn, Inc. v. Dept of Health, Education and Welfare.
8 minute read

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Regulatory: The unintended consequences of due diligence nondisclosure agreements

While some restrictions are fair and reasonable, others can be burdensome and leave the potential buyer regretting its failure to think twice before signing the agreement.
4 minute read

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CFOs confident about economy, worried about Affordable Care Act

Though chief financial officers are feeling confident about the economy, they are not without concerns.
4 minute read

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New food safety proposals have small businesses worried

A proposed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule designed to prevent foodborne illness has many food processing facilities alternately confused and concerned, Food Safety News reports.
4 minute read

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Halliburton to plead guilty to destroying oil spill evidence

A unit of Halliburton Co. has admitted to destroying evidence connected to the exploded oil well responsible for the 2010 Gulf oil spill.
2 minute read

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Cheat Sheet: How to work productively with state attorneys general

State attorneys general have been involved in some blockbuster settlements over the past decades.
12 minute read

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Understanding e-discovery deployment options

With new data formats and increasing data volumes, new deployment models have emerged for managing e-discovery.
11 minute read

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Judge signs off on IBM foreign bribery settlement

IBM can breathe a sigh of relief now that a two-year-old settlement agreement has finally gotten approval from a judge.
2 minute read

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Plan B to be sold over the counter, protected from generics for three years

As promised, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will finally allow the Plan B One-Step morning after pill to be sold to women of all ages, and will protect it from generic competition for the next three years.
4 minute read

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Regulatory: Avoiding an FCPA or anti-bribery charge after uncovering corruption

Last month, Medtronic Inc. announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would be closing their Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations of the medical device-maker without pursuing any charges or an enforcement action.
5 minute read

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