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Please join Saul Ewing LLP for our Second Annual Connectors Conference: Focus on Food, Beverage & Agribusiness. This half-day event will provide an opportunity to connect with and learn from leaders in the food, beverage and agribusiness sector. Our panel of industry experts will discuss the...

​The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"), Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") continues to be actively engaged in investigating and settling alleged HIPAA violations. In advance of Mother's Day, two decisions were announced for HIPAA-covered entities that allegedly did not provide...

On February 14, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued two reports to Congress as required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009. The reports are helpful to health care providers (and all...

On February 16, 2024, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a final version of the cybersecurity resource guide (the “Guide”) with respect to the HIPAA Security Rule. As noted in the Guide’s abstract, “This publication provides...

On February 6, 2024, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a settlement with Montefiore Medical Center (“MMC”) for alleged HIPAA Security Rule violations and MMC agreed to pay $4.75 million and enter into a two-year corrective action plan (“CAP”) with OCR. MMC admitted no wrongdoing...

On February 6, 2024, Gary Eidelman and Rebecca Reist will speak at the Delaware Restaurant Association 2024 Fast Forward Restaurant Industry Symposium. Their topic will be "Legal Frontiers: Navigating Diversity, Policies, and Emerging Risks in Restaurants." Their talk will cover issues such as p...

In December 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a $480,000 settlement with a Louisiana medical group following a phishing incident. In 2021, the medical group filed a breach report with HHS stating that a hacker – through a...

On November 20, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced an $80,000 HIPAA settlement with Saint Joseph’s Medical Center (“SJMC”) in New York State. The settlement was the result of OCR’s investigation of SJMC after the Associated Press...

On Halloween, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a $100,000 settlement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) with Doctors’ Management Services (DMS), a Massachusetts medical management company that provides...

Lessons Learned From Recent Food and Beverage Litigation and Enforcement: Practical Compliance and Defensibility Tips (2023 Update) This comprehensive course dives deep into recent litigation and enforcement trends in the food and beverage sector. Jonathan A. Havens, Saul Ewing LPP, a renowned...

Partner Jonathan Havens will speak on "Cannabis and CBD in Food Products" at the Prime Label Consultants' Food Label Conference in Washington, D.C. Cannabidiol (CBD) remains in the news, especially since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's January 26th announcement that existing regulatory...

​Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced two (2) different settlements, one with a HIPAA business associate for $350,000 and one with a HIPAA-covered entity pursuant to the OCR Right of Access Initiative for $15,000...

On April 27, 2023, Saul Ewing LLP hosted the first annual Connector’s Conference: Focus on Food, Beverage and Agribusiness at the Minneapolis Club in downtown Minneapolis. The conference featured agribusiness leaders, operators, dealmakers, legal experts and technology innovators who gathered to...

Partner Jonathan Havens will co-chair the 2023 FDLI Annual Conference. As the premier conference for the food and drug law community, the FDLI Annual Conference addresses complex legal, regulatory, compliance, and policy issues in all facets of the FDA-regulated industry. The conference provides in...

Saul Ewing LLP's first annual Connectors Conference: Focus on Food, Beverage & Agribusiness . This half-day event provided an opportunity to connect with and learn from leaders in the food, beverage and agribusiness sector. Our event featured a notable group of speakers, from organizations including...