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On April 4, 2020, the Department of Justice issued a business review letter allowing collaboration among five distributors of personal-protective equipment ('PPE'), oxygen, and medications. This is the first business [...]

On December 12, 2018, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied defendants Blue Cross Blue Shield Association's interlocutory appeal of a District Court decision to analyze BCBS's geographic market distribution [...]

On November 15, 2018, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice settled a two-and-a-half year long lawsuit against Atrium Health, a North Carolina hospital system formerly known as [...]

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in San Francisco County Superior Court on March 29, 2018 (the 'Complaint'), alleging that Sutter Health ('Sutter'), one of Northern [...]

On the eve of Chairman Phillip Miscimarra's departure from the NLRB, he gave one final gift to employers: the overturning of Specialty Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center of Mobile, 357 NLRB [...]

The reports of women who went on the record to accuse Hollywood businessman Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and other abuses, evoked the following recent Twitter message by [...]

'Once an employer becomes aware of the need for accommodation, that employer has a mandatory obligation under the ADA to engage in an interactive process with the employee to identify [...]

On April 28, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a February 8, 2017 decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to [...]

On June 9, 2016, the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice ('DoJ') filed a complaint against the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, d/b/a Carolinas Health Care System ('CHS') in [...]

The FTC just suffered a major setback in its concerted efforts to challenge the ever growing number of consolidations in the healthcare industry, failing to secure a preliminary injunction to [...]

On April 22, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission submitted a public letter to the New York State Department of Health (DOH) expressing 'strong concerns' over state regulations offering to provide [...]

The Massachusetts Attorney General and others are currently advocating for legislation that would accord greater legal weight to the findings of an independent state agency, the Health Policy Commission, on [...]

On February 10, 2015, the Ninth Circuit issued its highly-anticipated decision at the intersection of health care and antitrust, affirming the lower court's finding that a hospital-physician group merger completed [...]

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed regulations to clarify and build on current regulatory requirements for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that participate in the Medicare Shared [...]

Developments in modern antitrust law have made it increasingly difficult for termination of vertical relationships between a supplier and a dealer to be actionable under the antitrust laws, particularly under [...]

In Medical Center at Elizabeth Place v. Premier Health Partners et. al, Case No. 12-cv-26 (S.D. Oh. Oct. 20, 2014), the Southern District of Ohio held that previously-competing health care [...]

Attendees enjoy the Saturday evening banquet. The Leadership family accepts an 'I am the Strength Behind Ataxia' award for their support of NAF. Boardmember Denise Drake (left) and support group [...]

I met Jenny [Schmid] through my mother. She is involved in Civil Air Patrol and became friends with Jenny's mother, Debbie, who also works with the patrol. I never had [...]

On August 2, 2013, District Judge Edward J. Davila denied a motion to dismiss antitrust claims brought by consumers of NFL apparel against Reebok and the NFL in Dang v. [...]

The Arizona Ataxia Support Group gathered on February 8. Dr. Larry Schut joined us as our featured speaker as he has for the past seven years for our February meetings. [...]

GLO:FDQM/15apr20:esteban-adobe-111990.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): © Esteban / Adobe Stock gl I Mexican state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) expects this year to receive some $313 million from oil and financial firms involved in its annual oil hedging program, Chief Executive Octavio Romero said on Wednesday. i Pemex's hedge, which this year covers about a quarter of its gross exports volume, protects the company from price variations and helps it to cover production costs. Pemex started receiving money from put options under its hedging program in early March after oil prices began falling in February, the company said. [Extracted from the article]

Highlights from the article: State-owned oil company known as Pemex will take at a conference in Pemex, the world's most indebted oil company, has faced mounting Pemex's exploration and production budget this year is around $14.2.