Article
Published 01/14/2021
Industries Cannabis Law
Alert
Published 01/13/2021
By Bruce D. Armon, Samantha R. Gross
Industries Health Care | HIPAA / Health Information Privacy and Security
In its first enforcement action of 2021, on January 12th, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced it settled with Banner Health its fourteenth enforcement action as part of its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative (the “Initiative”). OCR announced the Initiative in 2019 to ensure individuals can easily and timely access their health information at a reasonable cost under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) Privacy Rule. In 2020, OCR announced eleven settlements as part of the Initiative including...
Blog Post
Published 01/13/2021
By Alexander Reich
Services : Labor and Employment
Podcast episode
Published 01/12/2021
In this episode, host Jonathan Havens, co-chair of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr’s Food, Beverage and Agribusiness (FBA) Practice, speaks with Tony Pavel, Senior Food Lawyer and Global Food Law Team Leader at Cargill, a global food, agricultural, financial and industrial products company. These former colleagues discuss how food law has grown more complicated over the years, particularly in relation to FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), traceability, the increasing globalization of supply chains, and consumers demanding labeling transparency and vast product information. They also discuss potential regulatory changes on the horizon given both technological advances in data-driven areas, such as rapid testing, and the beginning of the Biden Administration.
Article
Published 01/12/2021
Services Cybersecurity and Privacy
Blog Post
Published 01/11/2021
By Jason Tremblay, Gillian A. Cooper
Services : Labor and Employment
Article
Published 01/08/2021
Industries Government Contracts
Alert
Published 01/08/2021
This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to: what constitutes adequate consideration by an insurer of a disability claimant’s Social Security disability award; an analysis of various factors for consideration when a plaintiff alleges disability based on subjective complaints, including chronic fatigue and pain; offset of disability benefits based on settlement proceeds received by a claimant; dismissal of a claim for LTD benefits where the claimant failed to exhaust STD benefits; and an analysis of whether attorney’s fees are available on remand to state court after removal based on...
Blog Post
Published 01/08/2021
By Erik P. Pramschufer
Alert
Published 01/07/2021
By Mark D. Simpson, Paul Leicht
Services Intellectual Property
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently issued the decision of Simio, LLC. V. FlexSim Software Products, Inc. (Dec. 29, 2020). In upholding the District Court’s decision that the software claims at issue were patent ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101, the Federal Circuit found that improving a user experience does not constitute an improvement to technology under Step 1 of the patent eligibility test enunciated in Alice , and that the specification’s “focus” is taken into account when determining whether a claim is “directed to” an abstract idea under Step 1 of Alice . This...
Article
Published 01/07/2021
Industries Health Care
Article
Published 01/01/2021
Services Labor and Employment
Blog Post
Published 12/30/2020
By Ronald R. Fieldstone, Rohit Kapuria, Jay Rosen
Alert
Published 12/29/2020
By Sarah Lockwood Church, Andy J. Daly, Dasha G. Brockmeyer
Services Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation
The recently-enacted spending package, The Consolidated Appropriations Act (Act), contains additional emergency coronavirus relief including provisions that extend, modify or clarify provisions of both the Family First Coronavirus Relief Act (FFCRA) and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). This alert is intended to be an overview of some of the tax provisions of the over 5,500 page Act. The tax credits described below require the satisfaction of certain conditions and some have a limited shelf-life. I. The employer tax credit for paid family and medical leave...
Blog Post
Published 12/29/2020
By Andrew J. Daly
Blog Post
Published 12/29/2020
By Jason Tremblay, Robert L. Duston, Alexander Reich