On the heels of its Bet-the-Company litigation recognition by The Best Lawyers in America© 2017, the litigation team at Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP was recently named a 2017 Tier 1 Metro “Best Law Firms” by U.S. News & World Report, in four practice areas. The firm was recognized for its professional excellence in the Commercial Litigation, Personal… Read more »
Although “telemedicine” is not some new type of medical breakthrough but rather a vehicle for the delivery of “medicine”, its wide-spread use in delivering medical care in many different scenarios can get bogged down by serious regulatory issues such as: the lack of medical license reciprocity among the states (notwithstanding an increasing number of states… Read more »
Marc Stephen Raspanti will speak on “Best Practices for Dealing with the States in False Claims Act Investigations, Litigation and Settlement,” at the Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Institute. He will be co-presenting with Candice M. Deisher, Assistant Attorney General, Virginia Attorney General’s Office. The event takes place from October 23-26, 2016 in Washington D.C.
This week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced its enforcement statistics for Fiscal Year (“FY”) 2016. All told, the agency filed 868 enforcement actions, including a record 548 independent actions for violations of federal securities law, and recovered more than $4 billion in disgorgement and penalties. The number of independent enforcement actions represents an… Read more »
Pamela Coyle Brecht will be a panelist at the 2016 Federal Litigation and Qui Tam Conference for the Federal Bar Association in Washington, D.C. She will participate in the Qui Tam breakout session titled, “Health Law and the False Claims Act.”
On Monday, the DOJ announced the resolution of criminal allegations and a False Claims Act (“FCA”) lawsuit a relating to a scheme to defraud the United States and obtain kickbacks in exchange for patient referrals. A major U.S. hospital chain, Tenet Healthcare Corporation and two subsidiaries, Atlanta Medical Center, Inc. and North Fulton Medical Center,… Read more »
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Pamela Coyle Brecht, partner at the law firm Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP, will be a panelist at the 2016 Federal Litigation and Qui Tam Conference for the Federal Bar Association, in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, October 18, 2016. Ms. Brecht will participate in the Qui Tam breakout session titled, “Health Law and… Read more »
Marc Stephen Raspanti, Doug E. Roberts, and Pamela Coyle Brecht authored “A New Era of Laboratory Fraud, Part 2: The Return of Laboratory Fraud” which was published in the HCCA’s Compliance Today October 2016 Issue. Part 1 was featured in the September 2016 Issue. Reprint permission granted. Related Information: A New Era of Laboratory Fraud, Part 2:… Read more »
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted Senator Robert Menendez’s motion to stay its mandate while he petitions the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether the political corruption charges against him are based on constitutionally protected legislative acts. As previously documented on this blog, Menendez moved to dismiss the indictment filed in the… Read more »
Joseph L. Gordon authored “Employers Feel Heat Following Summer’s Arbitration Agreement Cases” which was published in The Legal Intelligencer on September 28, 2016. Related Information: Employers Feel Heat Following Summer’s Arbitration Agreement Cases