Aug 31, 2022 | Health Care Fraud
On August 25, 2022, the Eleventh Circuit upheld the convictions of a former Alabama physician, Patrick Ifediba, and his sister, Ngozi Justina Ozuligbo, who was a nurse who worked at a clinic run by her brother. They were charged and convicted of health care fraud,...
Aug 31, 2022 | Government Affairs
Earlier this summer on June 1, 2022, the New York Senate passed legislation (Senate Bill S8837) which would require that medical marijuana, a.k.a. medical cannabis, be covered under health insurance plans offered under public programs, such as Medicaid. The bill also...
Aug 31, 2022 | Government Investigations
The DOJ just announced that John F. Cochcroft, of South Carolina, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison after previously pleading guilty to one count of introduction of a new drug into interstate commerce with the intent to defraud and mislead and one count...
Aug 31, 2022 | White Collar Crime
William Britt is a former Statesboro City Councilman. Notably, he served on the City Council at a time when bars and underage drinking was a topic of controversy for the city. On April 13, Britt stood before Chief Judge Randal Hall of the U.S. District Court for the...
Aug 24, 2022 | Cyber Law, Data Breach
Chilivis Grubman recently discussed a data breach by OneTouchPoint, Inc., a business associate (“BA”) of several healthcare companies. One healthcare company (Aetna ACE) reported that the protected health information of 326,278 plan members was exposed because of the...
Aug 24, 2022 | Election Law
On August 19, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a decision by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which had halted a lower court’s order finding that the way in which Georgia elects its Public Service Commissioners was discriminatory. Specifically, the District...
Aug 24, 2022 | Election Law
Previously we wrote about a candidate for the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC), Patty Durand, who faced possible removal from the ballot because her PSC district (District 2) was redrawn to exclude the county in which she resided less than one year before the...
Aug 24, 2022 | Restrictive Covenants
Restrictive covenants have received relatively intense scrutiny by courts in recent years, as lawmakers seek to balance employers’ and employees’ respective rights—restrictive covenants acknowledge that employers invest time and monetary resources in their employees’...
Aug 24, 2022 | White Collar Crime
On August 23, the Department of Justice announced a Tennessee state representative and his former chief of staff were arrested at their homes on criminal charges of conspiracy to commit theft from programs receiving federal funds; bribery and kickbacks concerning...
