The year-end is rapidly approaching! To avoid costly penalties from inadvertent errors in the year-end rush, plan sponsors should begin talking with their service providers now about what must be done by year-end.

Last month, the Departments of the Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services issued final regulations governing several market reforms implemented under the Affordable Care Act.

I'm sitting on my back deck on an unusually warm January Saturday afternoon, thinking about all the New Year's resolutions I made this year and the hundreds of others I've made in 58 years of life, and mostly broken.

The Supreme Court of the United States has just agreed to the hear Packingham v. United States. The grant of certiorari reflects the increasing integration of cyberlaw with mainstream constitutional litigation.

The underlying facts involved two high school students. Defendant Robert Bishop attended Southern Alamance High School.

What part of a beach in North Carolina is subject to public use and what part is private property was recently addressed by the North Carolina Court of Appeals in Nies v. Town of Emerald Isle (Nov. 17, 2015).

The loss of employee personal information due to a cyber breach is an ever-increasing concern to all employers.

​In the Medicare Fee Schedule Final Rule with Comment Period for calendar year 2016, the CMS adopted two new exceptions to the Stark physician self-referral law affecting hospitals, effective January 1, 2016.

Under the recently enacted tax reform act (Tax Cuts and Jobs Act), tax-exempt organizations may be required to pay a 21 percent excise tax on certain compensation and certain separation pay.

The European Union's General Data Protection (GDPR) is now 9 months away.

In the iconic western, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Butch and Sundance are hard pressed to evade a posse led by the semi-mythical lawman, Joe Lefors, who is so adept...

The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS)'s finalized Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies ("regulations"), went into effect on March 1, 2017.

Poyner Spruill represented the defendant pesticide applicator, Industrial Fumigant Company (IFC), in Severn Peanut Co., Inc. v. Industrial Fumigant Co., 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS (4th Cir. Dec. 2, 2015).

Recent Medicare developments indicate that end-of-life health care providers can expect to face continuing change in an already dynamic sector.

A federal judge recently ruled that America's largest Bitcoin service was obligated to provide the Internal Revenue Service with extensive transactional records concerning the financial transactions of its members.

The Internal Revenue Service just issued Notice 2016-70 granting certain transitional relief in regards to 2016 ACA reporting requirements.

We're already beginning to forget the lessons of the financial crisis. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—the two government-sponsored enterprises that support much of the U.S. mortgage market ...

​J. K. Rowling's world of Harry Potter included an array of amazing artifacts; our personal favorites were the books and pictures that changed themselves.

In 1989, an obsessed fan fatally shot actress Rebecca Schaeffer in the doorway of her West Hollywood home. He had obtained her address from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The murder prompted Congress to pass the Drivers Privacy Protection Act (DPPA).

Anyone who has ever bought insurance, resented the premium, contested a claim denial, or piled up hours and papers dealing with insurers would welcome anything that promised to lower their rates.