The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has proposed an amendment to Local Civil Rule 16.1 that would require litigants in professional malpractice or negligence matters to address affidavit of merit issues at initial conferences before the magistrate judge. The proposed change allows professional malpractice defendants to identify affidavit of merit-related disputes

New workplace safety mandates are on the horizon for certain New York healthcare providers. Under recently enacted Public Health Law section 2832, covered facilities – defined as general hospitals and nursing homes – must establish workplace violence prevention programs by September 18, 2027. In addition, general hospitals must conduct annual workplace safety and security assessments

On June 16, The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the New York Department of Health (DOH), the DOH Medicaid Director, and Public Partnerships LLC (PPL) – the Georgia-based company selected by DOH in 2025 to manage New York’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistant Program (CDPAP) – in federal district court. The lawsuit alleges that the defendants

Medicaid is a jointly funded federal and state program that provides health insurance coverage, including long term care services, to eligible New Jersey residents. Although every state receives federal funding and must comply with federal guidelines, each state administers its own program and establishes its own eligibility requirements. As a result, Medicaid eligibility rules, including

In this month’s insurance update, we discuss opioids, trademarks, pre-tender defense costs, and allocation. Choice of law factors in heavily. In three of the cases, the jurisdiction whose law applied was important to the ultimate outcome.

Having home court advantage can often make the difference between a win and a loss. That is, unless you’re

Much legal discussion about artificial intelligence (AI) focuses on whether using unauthorized content to teach AI is transformative, and therefore, not infringement, or the rights and liabilities of AI-created content. What is not often mentioned is the interplay between the development of sophisticated prompts and intellectual property rights.

Sophisticated prompts are complicated instructions provided to

Whether you need a will is not as simple to answer as you may think. And if you do need one, should you save money by doing it yourself through an online program? Saving money now could prove costly later.

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I am often asked about the difference between wills and revocable trusts, and whether one or the other, or both, are necessary. Wills and revocable trusts basically do the same thing — they are documents in which you give away your assets to your beneficiaries upon your death. Both can be revoked and changed whenever

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, often called the congressional watchdog, spoke out against the U.S. Treasury Department’s interim final rule narrowing the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), warning that the now-gutted law could open the door to fraudulent activity.

In its May 29, 2026 report, the GAO highlighted the “resulting

New York’s comparative fault system and a broad serious injury threshold have made motor vehicle accident claims difficult and expensive to defend. Our current system, combined with staged accidents, manufactured injuries and unnecessary medical treatments have resulted in inflated verdicts and settlements, driving up costs for carriers and policyholders.

Albany, however, has recently passed bills

Marc Ullman co-authored, “The Price (and Value) of Corporate Reputation: What Compliance Actually Protects,” for the June 1 issue of Nutrition Industry Executive.

Marc describes the impact of compliance, or lack thereof, on companies in the dietary supplement and food and beverage industries, including reputational and financial risk.

Health care providers may want to offer free or discounted services to help patients, and that instinct may be good. Most providers, however, don’t think of “free care” as a kickback issue in the same way they might think about gifts or rewards as a kickback issue. They should, because the Office of Inspector General

Southern District Finds Commercial General Liability Policies And Products-Completed Operations Liability Policy All Cover The “Same Risk” For Purposes Of Priority

141 East 88th Street, LLC, was the sponsor and developer for a construction project converting an apartment building into a condominium. 141 East retained Tekton Builders, LLC, to be the general contractor for the

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced a new initiative to enhance its working relationship with data miners who bring cases as whistleblowers under the False Claims Act (FCA).[1] The initiative is dubbed “FOCUS,” an acronym for Fraud Oversight through Careful Use of Statistics.

There has been a sharp increase in qui tam complaints

Just shy of a “full house,” is how you might describe our May insurance update.

We have a pair of cases from the Colorado Supreme Court that discuss the failure to cooperate defense, UIM exhaustion, and the status of a rental car company when it offers its customers supplemental auto insurance.

We also have a