With Congress back in session, attention in the health care policy universe is directed squarely at Washington, where Republicans in Congress and the Trump Administration are debating how to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In...
In a recent decision out of the Delaware Court of Chancery—Merion Capital L.P. v. Lender Processing Services, Inc., C.A. No. 9320-VCL (Del. Ch. Dec. 16, 2016) ("LPS")—Vice Chancellor Laster strayed from several of the Court of Chancery’s recent...
Most states have laws either requiring or permitting mental health professionals to disclose information about patients who may become violent. These voluntary or mandatory reporting laws require a balancing of the confidentiality of information...
The headlines generated by the Volkswagen emissions scandal continue to amaze the environmental community and the general public, both here and abroad. The events are shocking in part because they involve a household name in the auto industry, and a...
A new Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) final rule is intended to modernize federal regulations governing the confidentiality of substance abuse records. SAMHSA explains in the preamble that it the agency “wants to...
On January 13, 2017, President Obama and the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the interim lifting of sanctions on Sudan, with a path to a permanent revocation of sanctions in six months if certain...
Cybersecurity and privacy of customer information have become such a critical issues that in-house counsel should treat them as board of directors-level issues. In-house counsel should do that with presentations for their boards of directors that...
New corporate governance standards for insurers authorised in Hong Kong came into effect on 1 January 2017. Hong Kong incorporated insurers and overseas insurers with a certain threshold of Hong Kong business must comply with the new guidance note 10...
Your Data Controller must register your databases in the RNBD according to the instructions in the user manual of the National Registration Database. The Superintendency of Industry and Commerce, Habeas Data Management has extended the...
