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Ashley Algazi spoke to Healthcare Risk Management for its HIPAA Regulatory Alert. The article, “Hospital Terminates Employees for Allowing Another To Do Their Jobs,” describes an incident at a Boston hospital in which a data breach was caused by two employees allowing others to do their work.

Ashley outlined the steps healthcare organizations can take to

Evan H. Krinick, Managing Partner of Rivkin Radler, is pleased to announce that Kaitlyn B. Connor, Anthony Hawkins, Joseph Niczky, and Thomas Paddock have joined the firm as associates.

Kaitlyn B. Connor, of Farmingville, NY, has joined the General Liability Group in the firm’s Uniondale office. In 2024, Connor graduated summa cum laude from Albany

Gregory Miller and Timothy Gonzalez succeeded in getting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to stop suspending payments to the firm’s client, a clinical laboratory.

In 2022, the client had its Medicare and Medicaid billing privileges suspended due to allegations of fraud. The client’s previous counsel failed to defend against these claims, leading

Most closely held businesses, whether organized as a C or S corporation, LLC or partnership, have (or should have) a buy-sell agreement. A buy-sell agreement addresses what happens to an owner’s interest in the business when the owner dies.

Many of these agreements provide that the business may or must purchase the deceased owner’s interest.

Fourth Department Finds That Insurer Failed To Meet Its Burden Of Proving That Insureds Failed To Cooperate

Merchants Preferred Insurance Company filed a declaratory judgment action in New York seeking a declaration that it had no duty to defend or to indemnify its insureds in an underlying Florida personal injury action arising from a

On June 7, 2024, Bernard Condon, an Associated Press reporter, authored the article, “Zombies: Ranks of world’s most debt-hobbled companies are soaring, and not all will survive.”

Condon’s article details zombie companies (Zs) so laden with debt that they are on the brink of collapse, barely able to pay even the interest on their loans. They