Posted By: Alan Hartman | email: ahartman@dbllaw.com
Many experts anticipate that the number of mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare industry will rise in the next few years. While there are typically many hurdles and unexpected costs associated with an M&A transaction, there are a few hurdles and costs that, when properly prepared for, can be eliminated. This specifically rings true when considering technology agreements.
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Posted By: Alan Hartman | email: ahartman@dbllaw.com
Modifications to Stage One and guidance on Stage Two requirements of the Electronic Health Records (EHR) meaningful use regulations are on the way. For health care IT professionals, there was never as much anticipation surrounding the release of federal regulations as there was when the meaningful use regulations were finalized.
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Posted By: Bob Hoffer | email: rhoffer@dbllaw.com
A Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows major U.S. strikes (1,000 workers or more) at their lowest since the Department of Labor began gathering that data in 1947. The number of major strikes fell to five in 2009.
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Posted By: Joseph Cleves | email: jcleves@dbllaw.com
With outdated condominium laws that lacked consistency in governance, Kentucky legislators recently passed the new Kentucky Condominium Act (KCA). The KCA goes into effect January 1, 2011 and will provide a lot more direction for condo associations and developers. This post provides a summary of the KCA and its implications for condominium stakeholders.
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Posted By: Patrick Hughes | email: phughes@dbllaw.com
If you own or operate a business in Kentucky, make sure you have filed your Kentucky Annual Report. In a recent press release, the Kentucky Secretary of State’s office warns that tens of thousands of companies face dissolution if they don’t file their annual report by the deadline of October 31.
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Posted By: Stephen Burke | email: sburke@dbllaw.com
Most of us have seen the commercials where the police officer asks, “Sir, have you been drinking?” It’s a question they must consider at every traffic stop. It’s also a question and issue that should be explored in workers’ compensation cases.
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Posted By: James A. Dressman, III | email: jdressman@dbllaw.com
This week Old Republic Title Insurance Company announced that it would no longer insure foreclosed homes. This was in response to several large mortgage companies suspending foreclosures while irregularities in foreclosure filings are being investigated.
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Posted By: Gerald Benzinger | email: gbenzinger@dbllaw.com
Are you the beneficiary of a trust from which you would like to receive more income? If so, there is a statute that may help you reach that goal.
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Posted By: Todd McMurtry | email: tmcmurtry@dbllaw.com
Have you ever been in a circumstance where your child wants to borrow your car, but has failed to complete his homework, failed to take out the trash, and then accuses you of not following through on your promise to make the family auto available every other Friday night?
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Posted By: DBL Law | email: news@dbllaw.com
Bob Hoffer grew up in Northern Kentucky’s Lakeside Park, not all that far from the Diocesan Catholic Children’s Home in Fort Mitchell. But the graduate of Covington Latin High School and Northern Kentucky University’s Chase College of Law didn’t get an up-close view of the former orphanage until the mid-1980s. That’s when Jack LaVelle, then head of law firm Deters Benzinger LaVelle, where Hoffer was an attorney, asked him to help with a fundraiser.
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