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Implementing Important Dealer Protections Without Creating a Negative Customer Experience

Lawyers are always full of advice about how you should do this or that to protect you and your business.  Inevitably, that advice seems to require 5 pages of small print in a contract.  While your lawyer may have very […]

IRS Issues Private Letter Ruling Benefitting Investor-Owned Hospitals and Other Companies that Manage Professional Practices

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a private letter ruling in December2014(PLR 201451009) that has gotten the attention of professional management companies and investor-owned hospitals that have managerial interests in captive professional corporations (PCs).

The IRS ruled that captive PCs may […]

Health Law Reporter Names Hospital/Physician Alignment #1 Issue for 2015

Physicians are increasingly leaving their private practices to become employees athospitals or to affiliate with provider groups. BNA’s Health Law Reporter recently wrote that hospital/physician alignment would be the top issue in healthcare law in 2015. The Reporter’s advisory board […]

Turning Profits into Loss: Changes in Industry and Dealership Business Model Create Risks for Dealers

Turning profits into loss?  Why would I do that?  No dealer is in business to lose money.  But what if the types of products and services you sell lead to a situation where losses from one bad transaction wipe out […]

Tim Davis to Present at E-Discovery CLE

Tim Davis will make a presentation at the National Business Institute’s “Everything You Don’t Know About E-Discovery” CLE on March 26, 2015  at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Lenexa, Kansas.  He will discuss practical tech advice for the non-techy attorney.

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Dealer Financing Documents: Avoiding Collateral Description Dilemmas

Most dealerships obtain financing from a variety of sources. Dealers may have an operating line of credit from a local bank, multiple floor plan providers for wholegood purchases and direct financing from suppliers for equipment and/or parts. Normal finance documents […]

Employee’s HIPAA Violation Results in $1.44 Million Jury Verdict Against Employer

Last month, the Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a $1.44 million jury verdictagainst Walgreens and a pharmacist employed by Walgreens for breaching their duties to keep customer prescription history private. In this case, the pharmacist used private customer prescription history […]

OIG 2015 Work Plan Summary – Part 3

This is the last of three blog posts summarizing the fiscal year 2015 plans of theOffice of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). The first two posts (post one, post two) covered the […]