Healthcare

Healthcare

Galit Kierkut | Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.

Editor: What do you credit for the recent uptick in whistleblower cases relating to the healthcare sector? Kierkut: I believe that there are two major reasons for the uptick. The first is that there is a big increase in the number of hospitals merging in the healthcare industry and that has...

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Angelo Spinola | Littler Mendelson P.C.

Editor: Why are wage and hour class actions so prevalent? Spinola: The FLSA was enacted in 1938, but there wasn’t much litigation until about 15 years ago, after which the number of class action cases just exploded. In fact, 91 percent of today’s labor and employment class action...

Healthcare

Jill S. Vorobiev | Dykema Gossett PLLC

Are civil rights discrimination complaints under the Affordable Care Act ("ACA") on the rise? The enactment of Section 1557 of the ACA was viewed as unprecedented. The law emerged as an opportunity to potentially create sweeping change in relation to the administration of healthcare...