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Non-Compete Agreements are contracts, typically formed in employment or business purchase contexts, where one party agrees to refrain from engaging in a particular line of work or pursuing business within a certain industry or locale. The purpose of these agreements is to protect employers or business purchasers from competition stemming from former employees or former owners of a business. less -

Texas Governor Signs Host of Bills Impacting Employment

Littler on 7/3/2025

Biennially, the Texas Legislature convenes from mid-January to June, to introduce, debate, and pass new laws impacting Texans across the state. Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s deadline to sign pending bills passed on June 22,...more

Oregon Enacts Legislation Placing Parameters on PE Involvement in Professional Medical Entities

Quarles & Brady LLP on 7/3/2025

Oregon has put itself on the map as the first state to follow through with its efforts to curtail private equity (“PE”) control over professional medical entities (“PMEs”). Quarles has been reporting on increased efforts by...more

Physician Noncompetes: Texas Restrictions Apply to Dentists, Physicians’ Assistants, and Nurses

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/1/2025

On June 20, 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bill 1318 (SB 1318), which will further restrict noncompete agreements for health care professionals in Texas, starting September 1, 2025. Most notably, SB...more

Non-Compete Agreements in Health Care: A Rapidly Evolving Legal Landscape

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/30/2025

In the wake of the Federal Trade Commission’s recently failed attempt to ban non-compete agreements between employers and workers, individual states have once again taken up the mantle of further regulating and limiting their...more

Texas Caps Physician Non-Compete Buyouts and Adds New Limits Under SB 1318

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 6/27/2025

On June 20, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 1318 (Amendment) into law, amending Texas Business & Commerce Code Section 15.50(b), which is commonly thought of as the “Texas physician non-compete buyout statute.”...more

Texas enacts sweeping changes to noncompete agreements for healthcare providers

Clark Hill PLC on 6/26/2025

On June 20, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law significant amendments to the Texas Business and Commerce Code, as contained in Senate Bill 1318, that will substantially restrict noncompete agreements for physicians and other...more

Texas SB 1318 Tightens Physician Non-Compete Rules, Extends Restrictions to Other Healthcare Practitioners

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 6/26/2025

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed a bill that imposes more limitations on employers’ covenants not to compete with physicians and extends similar restrictions to agreements with other healthcare practitioners, including...more

New Texas Law Will Significantly Reshape Non-Competes in Healthcare: What Employers and Providers Need to Know About SB 1318

Husch Blackwell LLP on 6/25/2025

Texas has enacted Senate Bill 1318 (SB 1318), which brings major changes to the state’s noncompete for healthcare professionals. Effective September 1, 2025, the new law extends protections that once applied only to...more

Texas Noncompete Shakeup: New Frontier for Health Care Practitioners

Polsinelli on 6/23/2025

Sweeping changes to noncompete covenants are set to take effect on September 1, 2025, for health care employers in Texas. These changes stem from recent amendments to Texas’ noncompete statute....more

Lone Star Limitations – Texas Further Narrows the Use of Non-Competes with Medical Professionals

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/23/2025

Texas imposes new limits on non-compete agreements with licensed physicians and health care professionals that takes effect September 1, 2025....more

Oregon Governor Signs S.B. 951, Representing the Nation’s Most Onerous Restriction on the Friendly PC Model

Proskauer - Health Care Law Brief on 6/12/2025

Over the past 3 years, as chronicled in several Proskauer alerts, an increasing number of states have sought to regulate physician practice management (“PPM”) and private equity transactions in the health care sector,...more

Non-Compete Ban for Maryland Healthcare Professionals Set to Take Effect July 1, 2025

Offit Kurman on 5/29/2025

Effective July 1, 2025, the second phase of Maryland’s restrictions on non-compete agreements and conflict of interest provisions for healthcare professionals will go into effect, targeting employers who provide direct...more

2025 Picks Up Steam with Increased Scrutiny of Health Care Transactions and Corporate Structures

Epstein Becker & Green on 3/7/2025

A new year brings about new legislation. Given the recent trend of health care transactions coming under increased scrutiny at the state level, EBG has released its map summarizing states that already have laws...more

California Legislature Introduces Two Bills Regulating Private Equity in Health Care

Alston & Bird on 3/6/2025

Our Health Care Group breaks down two California bills (SB 351 and AB 1415) that would regulate private equity’s and hedge funds’ roles in managing health care and dental practices....more

[Event] 2024 Health Law Seminar - July 24th, Minneapolis, MN

Lathrop GPM on 6/3/2024

Join us for our annual Health Law Seminar taking place on Wednesday, July 24. The seminar will feature panels and presentations on the following topics: - Artificial Intelligence Use in Health Care - Recent Developments...more

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