Firm hosts third annual Woman of Vision Luncheon | Florida Supreme Court throws out ‘false light’ invasion of privacy cause of action | Firm co-sponsors event on water technology in Israel | Arnstein & Lehr co-hosts Corporate Leadership dinner Arnstein & Lehr LLP Fall 2009 Update Newsletter

West Palm Beach Partner Joel Rothman wrote an article for Nutritional Outlook Magazine entitled “Playing It Safe: Marketers can protect themselves against product adulteration and recalls.” The article examines what a company can do to protect themselves from adulterated ingredients and what role the FDA plays. Click here to read the full article. Mr. Rothman [...]

by Thomas P. Conley A chiropractor in Indiana will be spending up to 12 ½ years in prison for defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance by selling a back-pain belt of his own design and billing it as a custom fabricated back brace. The chiropractor made three critical errors. First, he could not justify his [...]

By Thomas P. Conley A Wisconsin state Appeals Court has refused to enforce a restrictive covenant in a medical practice group’s employment agreement with an employed physician, finding that the 30-mile area covered by the covenant was impermissibly broad.  While courts frequently find that restrictive covenants are too broad in duration, area or scope, this [...]

Every physician knows that fee splitting is illegal and unethical, but what constitutes fee splitting may not be as well understood. SUPREME COURT BROADENS FEE SPLITTING PROHIBITION Publish at Scribd or explore others: Business & Legal health nutrition

Partner Mark Spognardi recently authored “Collective Bargaining under the NLRA in the Health Care Industry,” a chapter to be published in The Law of Medical Practice in Illinois (3d ed. 2007).

by Attorney Thomas P. Conley Health Care Practice Group The Medicare Modernization Act gave carriers and intermediaries the right to request documentation for a limited sample of claims after overpayments have been identified in order to ensure that the practice leading to the overpayments has ceased. Recent changes to the CMS manual system have clarified [...]

by Norman P. Jeddeloh for Arnstein & Lehr’s Health Care Practice Group The Illinois Supreme Court in People ex. rel. Department of Professional Regulation v. Manos, 202 Ill. 2d 536  (2002) has placed a significant limitation on the investigative powers of the Department of Professional Regulation.  In that case, the Department subpoenaed patient records from [...]