On January 5, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission), an agency charged with enforcing federal antitrust laws and protecting competition, proposed a new rule that would prohibit “employers” from imposing...more
1/11/2023
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Comment Period ,
Competition ,
Employees ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Former Employee ,
FTC Act ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Non-Solicitation Agreements ,
Proposed Rules ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Unfair Competition
On January 14, the Fifth Circuit vacated the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center’s (M.D. Anderson) $4.3 million fine for HIPAA violations arising from its loss of more than 35,000 individuals’ protected health...more
1/26/2021
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Covered Entities ,
Data Breach ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Employees ,
Encryption ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
OCR ,
Patients ,
Penalties ,
Vacated
On April 13, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (collectively, the Agencies) issued a Joint Antitrust Statement that the Agencies will...more
Expect criminal indictments in the near future against companies that have agreed not to recruit or hire each other's employees. That was the strong message from Makan Delrahim, the new Assistant Attorney General for the...more