The federal government’s ability to compel manufacture of supplies under the Defense Production Act has lately been in the news. Indeed, President Trump has issued an Executive Order authorizing the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take...
Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Upcoming Stimulus Packages. Early last week, it became clear that the SBA’s new Payroll Protection Program (PPP) will soon expend almost all of the nearly $350 billion for loans included in the CARES...
Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 4 (April 2020) ??????? - In new guidance, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has authorized hospitals and other covered entities (CEs) that may be faced with demands from first responders and law enforcement to...
This week’s guest on the Innovation In Compliance podcast is Ben Wolf, founder and CEO of Wolf’s Edge Consulting. He chats with Tom Fox about how his company helps entrepreneurs systematize their business operations to achieve their goals....
Welcome to the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network, Compliance and Coronavirus. As the Voice of Compliance, I wanted to start a podcast which will help to bring both clarity and sanity to the compliance practitioner and compliance...
Consider how a fraud audit using data analytics can help to detect or prevent bribery and corruption where the primary sales force used by a company are China based employees defrauding their company by using false expense reports to create a pot of...
Preservation of evidence is a critical element of litigation. The general preservation obligation arises from the common-law duty to avoid spoliation (loss or destruction) of relevant evidence so that it is available for use at trial....
The FTC recently announced a settlement with a NY-based company over allegations it misrepresented its participation in and compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework in violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act. The FTC alleged in its...
INVESTMENT MANAGERS - Form 13H: Following an initial filing of Form 13H, all large traders must make an amended filing to correct inaccurate information promptly (within ten days) following the quarter-end in which the information became stale...
“Openness in government is essential to the functioning of a democracy.” This straightforward declaration by the California Supreme Court bears repeating during the COVID-19 health crisis. “Newspapers, television, radio, and other media services”...
