What Do Recent Class Action Changes Mean for Healthcare?

Learn the answer at a new Manatt webinar. Click here to register free—and earn CLE Healthcare organizations are prime targets for class action lawsuits. The healthcare industry tops the list for class action data breach lawsuits. Healthcare is among the top-three industries facing class action lawsuits around the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)—despite a TCPA […]

Groff Murphy PLLC joins IR as the exclusive Construction Law Member in US – Washington

IR Global, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Michael P. Grace of Groff Murphy PLLC . Michael has joined IR as our exclusive Construction Law Member in US – Washington. Mike Grace provides counsel to contractors, design professionals, and other construction industry clients.  He drafts and negotiates a wide variety […]

Patient Characteristics Vary Across Part D Protected Drug Classes (Health Update)

Current Medicare Part D policy requires sponsors to cover with limited exceptions “all or substantially all” drugs in six “protected” classes: antidepressants, antipsychotics, anticonvulsants, immunosuppressants for treatment of transplant rejection, antiretrovirals and antineoplastics. Overall, in 2016, 18 million Part D enrollees took at least one drug in one of the six protected classes, and the […]

WHY LEASE AGREEMENTS MUST PROPERLY DEFINE ‘RENT’ OR ‘ADDITIONAL RENT’ IN COMMERCIAL LEASES: A CASE STUDY

Obviously, every commercial lease agreement must specify the amount of rent to be paid by the tenant to the landlord. However, there are often many additional sums that a tenant is required to pay its landlord pursuant to the lease agreement. In a typical triple net lease, a tenant will pay a fixed base rent, […]

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Kourkoumelis & Partners joins IR as the exclusive Construction Law Member in Greece

IR Global, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Dimitris Kourkoumelis of Kourkoumelis & Partners. Dimitris has joined IR as our exclusive Construction Law Member in Greece. Kourkoumelis & Partners is an Athens-based law firm focused in the fields of project finance, construction and engineering, real estate, public procurement, energy and […]

WEBINAR – Information Sharing During the Opioid Crisis: Challenges and Solutions | December 12, 2018

In 2016, 11.5 million Americans were misusing prescription opioids, with the abuse reaching epidemic levels in 2017. The opioid crisis has accelerated the need for healthcare stakeholders to play a more active role in managing behavioural health—and patient care to transition from siloed to integrated models. A new webinar from Manatt and the eHealth Initiative […]

Would CMS’s Drug Price Transparency Requirement Really Lower Prices?

On October 15, the Trump Administration’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule that, if finalized, would require prescription drug makers to include prescription drug price information in broadcast advertising. The Administration stated that it believes including the prices in ads—an idea first introduced in the president’s “Blueprint to Lower Drug […]

KOCH / HUPFAUF Attorneys-at-law joins IR as the exclusive Construction Law Member in Austria.

IR Global, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Mag. Constantin Koch of KOCH / HUPFAUF Attorneys-at-law. Constantin has joined IR as our exclusive Construction Law Member in Austria. SECTOR FOCUS: Comprehensive legal advice /  to real estate developers and construction companies /  as part of developing, exploiting and financing real estate […]