Where is your PHI Data Traveling Today?
With most vendors offering and pushing cloud computing solutions and offsite data backup, or guaranteeing offsite backup of data they process for you, many HIPAA covered entities and...more
8/28/2017
/ Church Plans ,
Clinical Trials ,
Data Protection ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HITECH Act ,
International Data Transfers ,
Pensions ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PHI ,
Retirement Plan
Preventing unintended or unauthorized disclosure of protected health information is an ever-present goal of all covered entities and business associates. However, protective firewalls and electronic data security measures are...more
DC Mex Holdings LLC v Affordable Land LLC and Dale Fuller, ___ Mich. App. ___ (July 25, 2017), Case no. 332439 -
Michigan’s Court of Appeals recently issued an opinion interpreting a statutory provision exempting insurance...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a $2,400,000 settlement with Memorial Hermann Health System (“MHHS”) to resolve an investigation of an unauthorized disclosure of...more
The Michigan Uniform Trade Practices Act (UTPA) provides for 12% penalty interest on certain no-fault insurance claims that are not timely paid by the insurer. For “third party tort claimants,” penalty interest only applies...more
5/24/2017
/ Arbitration ,
Arbitration Awards ,
Auto Insurance ,
Car Accident ,
Denial of Insurance Coverage ,
Insurance Claims ,
Insurance Industry ,
Insurance Litigation ,
Interest Payments ,
No-Fault Insurance ,
Prompt Payment ,
Uninsured and Under-Insured Motorists
A federal appeals court recently held void a product contamination policy issued to H.J. Heinz Company on the basis that Heinz failed to disclose previous contamination claims on its insurance application.
In 2014, Heinz...more
1/25/2017
/ Appeals ,
Applications ,
Baby Products ,
Commercial Insurance Policies ,
Failure To Disclose ,
Food Contamination ,
Heinz ,
Misrepresentation ,
Product Recalls ,
Rescission ,
Void Contracts
In April 2013, Glens Falls Hospital admitted that the medical records for more than 2,300 of its patients were stored for several months on an unprotected computer server. The hospital’s outside records contractor, Portal...more
In This Issue:
- Supreme Court Update: Where Plan Reimbursement Or Recovery Terms Are Ambiguous Or Silent,Equitable Doctrines May Fill The Gaps:
US Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen, 569 U.S. ___ (2013).
In an...more
4/23/2013
/ CIGNA ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Disability ,
Disability Benefits ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
FRCP 23 ,
Life Insurance ,
McCutchen v. U.S. Airways ,
Reimbursements ,
SCOTUS ,
Social Security ,
Social Security Disability ,
US Airways