Rethinking our Medical Restraint Chair Policies
Written by: Phillip E. Friduss, Esq. So, you have a restraint chair policy. Quite often, our healthcare policies are two-fold, one part governing law enforcement initiated restraints, the other dictating a different set of rules for the medical
Court Dismisses Shareholder Derivative Suit Over 2014 Home Depot Breach
Written by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. An Atlanta court has dismissed a shareholder derivative suit against Home Depot’s CEO and Board Chairman, Executive Vice-President and Chief Information Officer, and several members of the Board of Directors,
Injunction Stops New DOL Rule Increasing Salary Level Test: Now What?
Written By: Don Benson, Esq. Many employers have been asking what is next step for them in light of the injunction issued 112/22/16 in the U.S.D.C. Texas holding that the DOL may not impose the new higher salary level for jobs exempt from overt
UMass To Pay $650,000 For HIPAA Violations
Written by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. The University of Massachusetts Amherst is paying $650,000 to OCR to settle allegations of HIPAA violations that occurred in 2013. UMass neglected to designate their Center for Language, Speech and Hearing as a
To Produce or not to Produce?
Written By: Lauren K. Dimitri, Esq. In July of this year, the Appellate Division of the State Board of Workers’ Compensation rendered a decision on surveillance that has created quite the buzz in the Comp community. The Employee in State Boar
Using a “Credit Shelter” or a “Bypass” Trust in Your Will: a Good Thing or a Terrible (Tax) mistake? (and Why You Should Review Your Existing Will!)
Written by: Wills, Trusts, & Estate Administration Unfortunately, there is far from a one-size-fits-all answer. My October blog explored the use (or risks) of these trusts in older Wills as related to the possibility of inadvertently disinh
Georgia Supreme Court Limits Public School Campus Carry
Written by: Eric Hoffman, Esq. On Monday October 31, 2016, the Georgia Supreme Court unanimously held that firearms cannot be carried onto public K-12 school property unless the licensed gun owner is picking up or dropping off a student. In Ge
Do Employees Get Time Off to Vote?
Written by: Don Benson, Esq. With every election, employers need to revisit their rules on letting employees off to vote, and whether such leave needs to be paid leave. For the most part, this will be governed by the state law of where the empl
Regularly Getting it Wrong
Written by: David S. Dix, Esq. For many employers in Georgia, Workers’ Compensation is simply fact of life and a cost of doing business. However, for smaller businesses with fewer employees, Workers’ Compensation may not be a foregone con
Recent 7th Circuit Case Illustrates the Two Different Approaches to Deliberate Indifference
Written by: Jennifer Herzog, Esq. & Nick Kinsley The 7th Circuit, sitting en banc, recently decided a case involving the issue of deliberate indifference and the Eighth Amendment in regard to correctional healthcare in which the majority a