Sophisticated, worldwide investors require transparency and consistency to understand and compare investment opportunities, their fundamentals and risk exposure. The trend in Asia-Pacific has been toward passive and exchange-traded funds, and away from active products since the only objective and consistent analytics allow investors and managers to compare fund alternatives. The continuing growth of these passive […]
Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law Senate Bill 766 intended to make California a more attractive locale for international arbitrations. While international arbitrations are one of the fastest-growing segments of the legal industry, California has not shared in that growth due, primarily, to the 1998 decision by the California Supreme Court which held that non-California […]
Time is running out for brokers who may want to have their disclosure records expunged under Finra’s current rules, which are expected to undergo serious changes that will make the process costlier and more complex for advisors, warns law firm Shustak Reynolds & Partners. “From my perspective and our clients’ perspective, I think that the […]
We are pleased that partner Jim Reynolds obtained a dismissal before trial on behalf of a client sued for negligence and product liability. Our firm represented a ship repair company that performed boiler room work on U.S. Navy ships. An employee for NASSCO and his wife sued our client for negligence, strict liability, misrepresentation, fraud, […]
Earlier this year, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) payment model for community paramedicine. Designed to reduce unnecessary use of emergency departments (ED), the Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport (ET3) model will test new emergency ambulance service payments in fee-for-service Medicare for “treatment in place” and […]
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Shustak Reynolds & Partners, P.C. (www.shufirm.com) announces it won a $1.8 million arbitration award on behalf of two financial advisors who were terminated from USAA Financial Advisors, Inc. in May 2017. Notably, of the $1.8 million, $700,000 was for punitive damages based on USAA’s egregious conduct and $250,000 was for attorneys’ fees. Following […]
Understand what the information blocking rule will mean for healthcare stakeholders—and how you can be sure your organization is ready to meet the new requirements. Click here to register free—and earn CLE. Earlier this year, the federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Department of Health and Human Services […]
Bona Law PC attorneys Jarod Bona, Aaron Gott, Alexandra Shear, Luis Blanquez, and Luke Hasskamp filed an amicus brief on behalf of the International Center for Law & Economics (“ICLE”) and a dozen legal and economics scholars in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The brief argued that the Northern District of California’s ruling in FTC v. Qualcomm Inc. misapplied […]
Discover how to optimize the potential and avoid the pitfalls of sponsorship and co-branding opportunities at a new Manatt webinar. Click here to register free—and earn CLE. Opportunities to sponsor events and partner with other brands can be powerful tools for building awareness, expanding reach, and offering fresh content and experiences that capture new audiences […]
Learn how to improve access, services and care for Medicaid-enrolled children with special healthcare needs during a new webinar from Manatt Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health. Click here to register free—and earn CLE. Medicaid covers about half of all children with special healthcare needs in the […]
You might wonder why industry trade associations can lobby the government without obvious antitrust sanction, even when—which is common—they seek regulations or actions that ultimately harm competition. The answer is found in the Noerr-Pennington doctrine, which we will discuss today. What is the Noerr-Pennington Doctrine? The Noerr-Pennington immunity is a limited exemption from antitrust liability for certain […]
On August 14, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a final rule that imposes significant new barriers on immigrants legally applying to enter and remain in the country.1 For decades, DHS has considered whether an immigrant is likely to become a “public charge”—a person “primarily dependent” on the government for support—when reviewing his or her application […]