Posted By: DBL Law | email: news@dbllaw.com
DBL Law is pleased to announce that Anthony J. Bickel and Kelli A. Kleisinger have joined the firm as associates.
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Posted By: Richard Meyer | email: rmeyer@dbllaw.com
Last month, a North Carolina state court jury awarded $25 million in a child abuse case in which a six-year-old boy (now age 14) was rendered quadriplegic and unable to speak when battered by the mother’s boyfriend, an all too familiar tragedy these days. What was unusual in this case was that the award was rendered against a North Carolina hospital and physicians practicing at the hospital.
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Posted By: David Dirr | email: ddirr@dbllaw.com
In the spring of this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed rules governing Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) participating in the CMS Shared Savings Program. Under the Shared Savings Program, if an ACO is able to reduce the cost of caring for Medicare patients without compromising quality, it will be entitled to split the savings with CMS.
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Posted By: Todd McMurtry | email: tmcmurtry@dbllaw.com
I recently attended a reception at Northern Kentucky University’s College of Informatics. It is housed an amazing new building that reminded me of something from the TV series Star Trek. [http://informatics.nku.edu/] I kept waiting to be beamed up. Of course, this new center is also affiliated with Chase College of Law. This combination expresses the rapidly expanding interaction of law and the internet commonly referred to as Cyberlaw.
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Posted By: Kelly Gindele | email: kgindele@dbllaw.com
According to the owners’ wishes, contracts frequently require contractors to put changes to the work in writing in order to be compensated. However, throughout the construction project, owners often become lackadaisical with contract requirements and verbally agree to or pay for additional work without requiring a written change order. An owner may have no problem compensating the contractor for certain work that the owner knew about or specifically ordered. However, what the owner may not realize is that waiving the written requirement in one situation may waive the requirement in others.
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Posted By: Christopher Markus | email: cmarkus@dbllaw.com
Unless a written contract provides otherwise, the interest rate applicable to a money judgment issued by an Ohio court accrues at a rate determined annually by the Ohio Tax Commissioner. On October 14, 2011, the Tax Commissioner announced that the interest rate applicable to judgments issued in 2012 will be three percent (3%), annually.
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Posted By: DBL Law | email: news@dbllaw.com
Partners Joe Cleves and Rick Meyer were published in the Summer edition of the Construction Lawyer, the Journal of the ABA Forum on the Construction Industry. Their article, No-Fault Construction’s Time Has Arrived, delves into the murky case law surrounding traditional construction delivery to demonstrate the need for a new project delivery method: Integrated Project Delivery.
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