On September 27, 2023, Judge Royce Lamberth of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a lawsuit challenging HHS’s calculation of the standardized amount used in calculating Medicare Inpatient...more
The question of whether a party’s failure to comply with a mandatory step in a multi-tiered dispute resolution clause is an issue of “admissibility” or “jurisdiction” was a hot topic in the international arbitration sphere...more
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act- In this appeal, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed and remanded the District Court for the Northern District of Ohio’s decision, finding the debt collector violated the...more
As most employers already know, OSHA’s newly announced COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) is set to take effect January 4, 2022, and will require, among other things, that workers at U.S. companies with at least 100...more
On July 17, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), finding that the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) legal challenge of...more
Best Best & Krieger LLP Partner Joseph Van Eaton and co-counsel Kristen Wilson, city attorney for Rye, New York, filed a successful motion for the City of Rye that resulted in a dismissal of a lawsuit challenging local...more
Guidance addresses industry concerns about premature public notifications. On December 14, 2015, the FDA issued a final guidance titled “Public Notification of Emerging Postmarket Medical Device Signals” (Final...more
Safeco Ins. Co. of Ill. v. Beare, No. 4D13-3104, 2014 WL 4626851 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. Sept. 17, 2014). The Fourth District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida denies an insurer’s petition seeking review of the...more
The Dietz family sued several lessees for injunctive relief and restorative damages arising out of leases on two non-contiguous tracts in Acadia Parish. In Dietz, et al. v. Superior Oil Company, et al the trial court granted...more
Welcome to the first edition of Fast Five on Rhode Island Appellate Practice, which will provide five periodic updates on Rhode Island appellate law and pointers for practice before the Rhode Island Supreme Court. ...more