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On July 15, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the resolution of eleven investigations as part of its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Right of Access Initiative (the "Initiative"). OCR created...

No ‘slam dunk fix’ in HIPAA privacy law to protect abortion patients The Biden administration wants to lean on the decades-old privacy law to protect abortion patients. What could it actually do? “Typically, the laws are trying to catch up with where the real world is, in terms of what’s going on...

(Washington, DC, July 21, 2021) – Earl Adams, Jr., co-chair of the firm’s Regulatory, Compliance and Government practice, and Managing Partner of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, has been appointed by President Biden to serve as Chief Counsel to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (...

On June 29, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights released two guidance documents addressing (1) disclosures under the HIPAA Privacy Rule relating to reproductive health care (“Disclosure Guidance”), and (2) the privacy and security of reproductive health...

To Correct, or to Let Stand? When high-profile figures lie about their academic records, the institutions they attended must perform a delicate balancing act between protecting their privacy and telling the truth. by Liam Knox “The hands of the institution are tied in a lot of ways from getting...

Laurie Kamaiko, chair of the Firm's Cyber Insurance Practice, participated in a panel discussion during the NetDiligence Cyber Risk Summit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The panel covered the following topics: Infrastructure and infrastructure-adjacent vulnerabilities Service provider outlook at...