If a county, city or town contributes a pollutant of concern to a waterbody it may need to modify its municipal stormwater management program to meet state and federal National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) regulations. Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) and the Virginia Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) will require MS4 communities to make improvements and retrofits to existing stormwater management programs.

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality recently announced that it has adopted new enforcement guidelines designed to address three issues.

HHS reported that 6.5 million consumers have obtained health insurance coverage from HealthCare.gov, bringing the total number of enrollees in federal and state exchanges to over 7 million.

March 1, 2014, is the deadline for providing notification to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services regarding breaches of unsecured protected health information that were discovered in the 2013 calendar year and that affected fewer than 500 individuals.

The regulatory landscape for telehealth prescribing of controlled substances is evolving. In episode 13 of Complications: Health Policy Unraveled...

This is the 34th in a series of Workcite articles concerning the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and its companion statute, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (referred to collectively as the Act).

Every fall, the OIG publishes its Work Plan for the coming year.

On this episode of Health+Tech, host Kristen McDermott Woodrum is joined by Charlie Winn, co-founder, vice president of sales and chief revenue...

Chicago partners Geoffrey Cockrell and Amber McGraw Walsh co-authored a Law360 article titled "Investor Interest In Health IT Firms Continues."

OIG recently released its Work Plan for fiscal year 2014, and it includes a number of planned areas of focus for investigation and enforcement activities.

On Feb. 6, 2012, UK-based medical device company Smith & Nephew settled a civil and criminal investigation of alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by agreeing to pay a total of $22.6 million and committing to certain measures designed to reduce the possibility of repeat conduct.

Consolidation of major healthcare providers in various sectors is not a new phenomenon.

Reports estimate the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy at $50 billion, greater than any U.S. hurricane other than Katrina.

Last Wednesday, Lawyers for Civil Justice filed its amicus brief in Campbell-Ewald Corp. v. Gomez, the case in which the Supreme Court will finally rule on whether Rule 68 offers of judgment can moot a class action.

This article by Washington, D.C., associate Franklin D. Annand discusses a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

The latest major health insurance data breach of 2015 reported by Excellus BlueCross BlueShield is considered one of the top 20 worst reported breaches of a healthcare organization.

Last week, the FTC launched a new resource, www.identitytheft.gov, designed to help victims report and recover from identity theft.

March 1, 2015 is the deadline for providing notification to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services regarding breaches of unsecured protected health information that were discovered in the 2014 calendar year and that affected fewer than 500 individuals

This article analyzes the case of a football league chief executive who kept his job following the media leak of some controversial personal emails sent from his work computer.

The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) recently noticed a comment period for the latest iteration of the proposed changes to the Virginia Stormwater Management Program Permit Regulations (4 VAC 50-60-10 through 159).