On June 11, the Department of Health and Human Services released an unofficial version of all of the HIPAA regulatory standards in one document. The combined regulation text includes the following HIPAA standards:
The document reflects the changes in…
By Anna Kraus
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced on June 14 that it reached a settlement with Shasta Regional Medical Center (SRMC) in California over potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Under the settlement, SRMC agreed to pay $275,000 and implement a comprehensive corrective action plan (CAP).
HHS’s investigation was…
Regulatory safe harbors play a critical role in the design of employee benefit plans by:
Without…
Yesterday’s post noted several proposed changes to the Federal Election Commission’s Enforcement Manual that are likely to prove controversial. Yet there are also proposals in that same document that merit serious consideration, if not outright support, from all on the Commission. Here are just some suggestions of proposals that could win bi-partisan support.
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The Federal Election Commission made public two versions of its Enforcement Manual today, one based on current practices for handling the agency’s enforcement docket, and one proposing a dramatic shift in how cases could be handled in the future. The choice between the two versions may be up for discussion at the agency’s next open…
Yesterday, the Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill that would modify Wisconsin’s ban on corporate expenditures and double the state’s political contribution limits. In response to Citizens United, the bill lifts Wisconsin’s blanket prohibition on corporate expenditures. If passed by the Senate and signed into law, the bill would permit corporate independent expenditures and corporate contributions…
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found that the retransmission consent agreement between Nexstar Broadcasting Inc. and Time Warner Cable, Inc. allows Time Warner to rebroadcast the signals of three television stations owned by Nexstar without any geographic restriction across its entire system. Rejecting Nexstar’s request for an injunction to stop Time Warner…
With the National Security Agency in the news, there has been some media attention to who is lobbying whom in the intelligence community, and how much they are spending while doing it. Often media coverage of lobbying expenditures misinterprets the available federal Lobbying Disclosure Act (“LDA”) data. The LDA notoriously contains many gaps. Those who…
On 22 May 2013, the Supreme Court issued a ruling on the English law of confidential information. The case represents a helpful guide as to how confidential information may be protected by a business after the end of an employment contract.
The case, Vestergaard Frandsen A/S (now called MVF 3 ApS) and others v Bestnet…
A Wisconsin resident has brought a federal lawsuit challenging the state law that restricts individual political contributions to candidates and committees to $10,000 in a calendar year. As alleged in the complaint in the case, captioned Young v. Vocke, the aggregate limit is so low that if an individual were to make a maximum contribution…
