Federal enforcement of Medicare and Medicaid fraud has intensified dramatically, with recent prosecutions involving billions in alleged losses and sophisticated data analytics. Recent Sixth Circuit decisions reveal critical compliance vulnerabilities in medical necessity documentation, billing practices, and compensation structures that can trigger both criminal prosecution and civil False Claims Act liability.

Those damages and losses may include attorneys' fees expended by the employer to investigate violations of the statute.

FBT Gibbons' Antitrust & Trade Regulation Team previously wrote about changes to the rules and procedures governing premerger notifications under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976...

The California Air Resources Board adopted amendments to its regulation on methane emissions from municipal solid waste landfills.

It is a common principle in automobile insurance that the policy cannot limit or restrict coverage more than the state's statutory framework allows.

Atlanta Gas Light Company and its parent (collectively, AGL) hired United States Infrastructure Corporation (USIC) to locate and mark gas lines in Georgia.

In March 2026, a federal court issued a preliminary injunction in Amazon.com Services LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc., finding that an AI shopping agent may have violated federal...

The California Air Resources Board has moved the 2026 cap-and-Invest amendments into formal rulemaking. Cap-and-invest is California’s market-based greenhouse gas program.

Over the years, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has instituted policies and procedures to help manage the workflow of the agency.

Since their creation in 2017, Opportunity Zones (or OZs) have channeled billions of dollars into over 8,700 designated census tracts nationwide, making the OZ program...

Worksite enforcement is back in the spotlight, as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) intensifies its use of Form I‑9 inspections to scrutinize employer compliance.

Section 1202 provides an exclusion from capital gains when a taxpayer sells qualified small business stock ("QSBS"), assuming all eligibility requirements are satisfied.

This guide covers state laws requiring disclaimers and disclosures for generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). It also discusses court requirements and the ABA model rules addressing the use of GenAI by lawyers.

As the U.S. grapples with a multi layered housing crisis, the need for states to act strategically and mobilize public, private and civic...

Opportunity Zones (or OZs) are designated communities across America where you can invest your capital gains and pay dramatically less in taxes — or even no taxes at all.

As an attorney who's advised companies in the digital assets space for over a decade—and among the first to accept bitcoin as payment for legal services...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used more frequently in the legal sector. For example, a March 2023 survey by the Thomson Reuters Institute of 443respondents, primarily from midsized and large U.S. law firms...

As AI agents begin to autonomously execute commercial transactions, a critical question emerges that precedes all others: will the platforms, merchants, and payment providers that control transaction infrastructure even allow these agents to participate? The architecture of access control is being built now, and it may determine the future of agentic commerce more than any legal doctrine.

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 enacted on March 11, 2021 provides a federally-funded, 100 percent subsidy for the premiums for COBRA continuation coverage from April 1, 2021 to September 30, 2021 ...

One of the key requirements of Section 1202 is that the business issuing qualified small business stock (QSBS) must be a domestic (US) C corporation.