Author: Steven Cernak When I first started practicing antitrust law in the “80’s, the Robinson-Patman Act was already an object of derision.¹ With Chicago School thinking riding high in academia and the courts and antitrust law’s focus shifting to effects on consumers, not rivals, RP cases seemed to be dwindling down to nothing. My colleagues and […]
The coronavirus outbreak has caused concern for companies worldwide as they navigate and plan for its impact on their business operations. While different industries will be affected in different ways, there are some steps that all employers can take to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Here are the […]
Discover the Latest Social Determinants of Health Trends, Strategies and Opportunities. Click Here to View Manatt’s Recent Webinar Free on Demand, Download a Free Copy of the Presentation and Learn More About Our New SDOH State Survey. It is widely recognized that social and economic factors—such as housing, food, toxic stress and income—have a significant impact on […]
Discover how payers, providers and community-based organizations can forge successful relationships to advance Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) strategies at a new Manatt webinar. Click here to register free. As healthcare becomes more value-based, interest is growing in approaches that address both medical needs and social determinants of health (SDOH). Even patients now recognize the […]
The health care law contains tax provisions that affect employers. Two parts of the Affordable Care Act apply only to applicable large employers. These are the employer shared responsibility provisions and the employer information reporting provisions for offers of minimum essential coverage. The size and structure of a workforce determines which parts of the law […]
Form W-4, Employee’s Withholding Certificate, has been redesigned for 2020. Previously, income tax withholding was based on an employee’s marital status and withholding allowances or tied to the value of the personal exemption. With the revised Form W-4, however, income tax withholding is generally based on the worker’s expected filing status and standard deduction for the […]
Do you or your competitor have a monopoly in a particular market? If so, your conduct or their conduct might enter the territory of the Sherman Act—Section 2—called monopolization. If you are in Europe or other jurisdictions outside of the United States, instead of monopoly, people will refer to the company with extreme market power as “dominant.” Of course, […]
The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, signed into law on December 20, 2019, extended a number of expired tax provisions for business and individuals through 2020. It also included several retirement plan changes and repealed three health care taxes. Here’s what you need to know: INDIVIDUAL TAX EXTENDERS Mortgage Insurance Premiums. Homeowners with less than 20 […]
January 27, 2020, marked the start of this year’s tax filing season. Complicating matters is a newly revised Form 1040, U.S. Individual Income Tax Return. With more than 150 million individual tax returns expected to be filed for the 2019 tax year, here’s what individual taxpayers can expect: ANOTHER NEW DESIGN FOR FORM 1040 The new […]
Learn How Two Proposed Rules Could Drive Sweeping Reforms to the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the Stark Law. Click Here to View Manatt’s Recent Webinar Free on Demand, Download a Free Copy of the Presentation—and Earn CLE. In October 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released two proposed rules that include some […]
More than a third of the U.S. population will head to the polls on March 3. Find out how their votes could impact healthcare in a new Manatt webinar. Click here to register free. Fourteen states—including, for the first time, California and Texas, the two most populous states—will hold a presidential primary on Super Tuesday. […]
This is part two of an article about the Supreme Court’s 2019 decision in Apple v. Pepper, the classic antitrust cases of Illinois Brick and Hanover Shoe, indirect purchaser lawsuits, and state antitrust claims. If you haven’t read that article, you should because it provides the background for this article. If you read it, but it […]