On January 25, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published the long-awaited HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule (Final Rule), which includes the most sweeping changes to HIPAA since the Privacy and...
The CFPB has posted on its website a list of rural and underserved counties for calendar year 2011. The CFPB had already posted lists of such counties for calendar years 2012 and 2013.... By: Ballard Spahr LLP
In a moment as pivotal as the Battle of San Jacinto, groundbreaking reform in Mexico may bring a Lone Star-sized opportunity to the American maritime industry. On December 20, 2013, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto signed into law constitutional...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld summary judgment in favor of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) regarding its assessment of the potential environmental impact of a proposed expansion of the Reid Gardner Generating Station. The...
The coming year was supposed to be the year when two of health care reform’s most critical provisions, the employer and individual mandates, took effect. But employers who were busily preparing for the January 1, 2014, deadline during 2013 had to...
The New Year might bring more to New Jersey than just the Super Bowl. Indeed, on November 25, 2013, the legislature introduced a bill before the New Jersey State Assembly, which, if enacted, would require general liability policies (in policies...
1—The U.S. Supreme Court granted a petition for writ of certiorari in a case challenging patent eligibility (under § 101) of method claims directed to a software embodiment and a corresponding system. Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int'l (Case...
Johnny Depp settled the lawsuit brought against him by Robin Eckert. Eckert claimed in her lawsuit that Depp's bodyguard dragged her across the VIP section of an Iggy Pop concert, causing her pants to slip down and exposing her "buttocks" to the crowd, reports TMZ.
Hydraulic fracturing remained one of the most controversial environmental issues of 2013. Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is the process of injecting water, chemicals and “proppants,” oftentimes sand, under high pressure several...
We recently reported that the number of cyber events involving the healthcare industry is expected to rise in 2014. The reliance on electronic medical records and the use of insurance exchanges increase efficiency but also heighten the risk of...
