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Lance Armstrong | The Doping Controversy Continues
By Victoria VanBuren - July 12, 2012
As readers may know, the controversy about Austin resident and seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has resurfaced recently. USADA Charges The U.S. Anti Doping Agency (USADA) notified Armstrong and other members of the team on June 12, 2012 of its opening of a formal action alleging anti-doping rule violations. (read the notification here) On June 29, the three-person Anti-Doping Review Board made a unanimous recommendation to move fo
What if Someone Mediates in ‘Bad Faith’?
By Victoria VanBuren - June 30, 2011
In 2009, the Texas Legislature signed into law Texas House Bill 2256. The bill provides a procedure for mediation of out-of-network health benefit claim disputes. The law now gives patients the option to mediate when they are “balance-billed” by their insurance company for services provided by out-of-network facility-based physicians like radiologists, pathologists, and neonatologists. Balance billing occurs when a physician bills a patient for t
Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Regulations Proposed
By Beth Graham - April 4, 2011
by Holly Hayes Last week, The New York Times reported the Obama administration has proposed long-awaited Affordable Care Act (the Act) regulations “encouraging doctors and hospitals to band together, coordinate care and cut costs,” through the formation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). In return for this collaboration, the government is offering financial rewards to health care providers that meet detailed federal standards w
N.D. of Texas Lifts TRO Enjoining FINRA Arbitrations
By Beth Graham - March 28, 2011
On February 18, 2011, The Northern District of Texas issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) enjoining multiple arbitration proceedings before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) in Billitteri v. Securities America Inc., et al., No. 3:09-CV-01568-F and related cases, (N.D. Tex., February 18, 2011). In the case, a group of representative plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit jointly filed a Motion for Preliminary Approval of a pa
N.D. of Texas Issues Temporary Restraining Order Enjoining FINRA Arbitrations
By Beth Graham - March 7, 2011
The Northern District of Texas has issued a Temporary Restraining Order enjoining multiple arbitration proceedings before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). In Billitteri v. Securities America Inc., et al., No. 3:09-CV-01568-F and related cases, (N.D. Tex., February 18, 2011), a group of representative plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit jointly filed a Motion for Preliminary Approval of a partial class action settlement with s
GUEST-POST | Italy’s Lawyers Call for National Strike Against Mediation Law
By Beth Graham - February 25, 2011
by Michael McIlwrath A new law requiring mediation to be used in commercial cases comes into effect in Italy on March 21. It’s been heralded as a significant potential change and, you would think for a country with a famously overburdened court system, heartily welcomed as a caseload-reducing initiative. Proactive local chambers of commerce have been sponsoring initiatives to promote the introduction of mediation, and mediation providers have bee
Collaboration Needed to Improve Health Care Delivery System
By Holly Hayes - February 18, 2011
by Holly Hayes According to an American Hospital Association (AHA) News report, Don Berwick, M.D., Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, testified on February 10, 2011, at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the impact the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will have on Medicare. Dr. Berwick, said: “building an improved Medicare program and health care delivery system must be a collaborat
Foreclosure Mediation Legislation Referred to Senate Judiciary Committee
By Beth Graham - February 10, 2011
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D – Rhode Island) has introduced legislation that would provide bankruptcy court judges with the option to require homeowners undergoing bankruptcy and their lenders to engage in foreclosure mediation. According to DS News magazine, Whitehouse’s proposal is modeled after a court program in his home state of Rhode Island. He says it would not give judges the power to slash mortgage debt like the many bankruptcy cramd
HEALTH Act Addresses Medical Liability
By Holly Hayes - February 4, 2011
by Holly Hayes After voting to repeal national health reform law on January 19th, House Republicans introduced medical liability reform legislation that would cap damage awards. The Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Health Care (HEALTH) Act of 2011 “would limit noneconomic damages to $250,000, and punitive damages to the greater of $250,000 or twice the amount of economic damages. It would not preempt state laws that establish hi
SEC Approves FINRA Plan to Allow All-Public Arbitration Panels
By Beth Graham - February 2, 2011
Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) plan to provide investor-claimants with an all-public arbitration panel option. According to Investment News, The approval follows a 27-month pilot program during which Finra gave certain investors the choice of eliminating the industry arbitrator on three-person panels and replace the arbitrator with a public panelist. The Dodd-Fran
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