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“BAD BOY” GUARANTYS
A. BACKGROUND The term “bad boy” guaranty is used in certain circumstances to describe a guaranty to be provided – usua...
Learn MoreLoan Participations
The 2007-2010 period illustrated that lenders must use greater care when selling or purchasing participating interests in loa...
Learn MoreNew Stark Law Exception for Non-Physician Practitioner Recruitment Subsidies: A Gift or Pandora’s Box for Hospitals?
As of January 1, 2016, a new Stark Law exception allows hospitals to give subsidies to physician practices for the recruitmen...
Learn MoreNew Final USDA Rule to Reduce Salmonella and Campylobacter in Poultry
On February 4, 2016, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced the issuan...
Learn MoreBankruptcy Trumps Collective Bargaining Agreement
A federal court recently ruled that the Bankruptcy Code (the “Code”) permits an employer to escape their expired collecti...
Learn MoreDOL Issues Administrative Interpretation Addressing Joint Employment
On January 20, 2016, the United States Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (DOL) issued its first Administrator’...
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Unaccepted Settlement Offers and Offers of Judgment Can’t End Consumer Class Action Lawsuits
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court limited a tool that defendants had used to settle costly class action litigation through se...
Learn MoreSupreme Court: Health Plan Recovery Of Expenses Can Be Thwarted By Spendthrift Participant
In an 8-1 decision issued yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a health plan’s right of recovery against a plan par...
Learn MoreEmployment Law 2016 Review
TABLE OF CONTENTS Preparing for Medical Marijuana in PennsylvaniaMajor Changes to FLSA Overtime Rules on Hold For NowNew Fede...
Learn MoreMunicipal Bidding Thresholds for 2016
Effective January 1, 2016 The Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry has published the municipal authority and munic...
Learn MoreReturn of The Persuader Rule
Employers may recall the Department of Labor’s prior attempts to implement the “persuader rule” which seeks to narrow t...
Learn MoreConstruction News – December 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS Evolution in the Law – Is a “Right to Repair Act” in Pennsylvania’s Future?Construction and Design ...
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