Health Law

Arguably no other area of interdisciplinary law affects the daily lives of the general public and, in turn, your clients, more than health law. Moreover, healthcare has become big business with the rising cost of quality medical care, prescription drug coverage, and the need for long-term health care solutions for an aging population. Legal matters frequently arise from the denial of Social Security benefits to the maze of options available for small businesses that are required to provide healthcare insurance coverage to their employees. Click on the links below to also learn about how to better represent your clients seeking Medicare coverage or how to make your company’s health benefits work for its employees.

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Health Law Articles

Emergency Patients: Obligation to Treat and Effective Consent

The focus of this article is twofold. First, we will examine and discuss the legal obligation to treat patients who present themselves for treatment via emergency rooms. Secondly, we will examine the issue of legally valid consent to medical ...
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Emergency Regulations Anticipate The January 1, 1999 Sunset Of Key Provisions Of California’s Superfund Program

After the State Legislature's failure to reauthorize key portions of the state Superfund program, the California Environmental Protection Agency ("Cal/EPA" or the "Agency") issued emergency regulations on November 9, 1998 that purport to provide the ...
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Environmental Accounting

This article is also co-authored by Robert Lipscomb, the Brownfield Program Manager for the engineering firm of Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon in Nashville, Tennessee. Recent events over a twenty-four hour period indicate that the reporting of ...
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Environmental Bulletin

The deadline for introduction of new legislation in the 1999 Tennessee General Assembly has passed and this issue of the Waller Lansden Environmental Group Bulletin includes a summary of environmental, natural resources, and other regulatory bills ...
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Environmental Justice: Recent Federal and State Developments

Will additional facility expansions or brownfields developments be delayed, or environmental permits adversely affected because of concerns by the permitting agencies or citizens about the facility's impact on poor and minority communities? Pushed ...
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Environmental Law

The year 2004 has proven to be another active year for environmental law in Canada, which continues to develop in response to international and domestic influences. A noteworthy example of an international event with potentially far-reaching ...
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Environmental Violation

An environmental violation occurs when an activity or an existing condition does not comply with an environmental law or regulation. Environmental violations can include (but are not limited to): A n environmental violation is a situation which does ...
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EPA Approves First-Ever Settlement Of Superfund Petition For Reimbursement

On June16, 1997, the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Appeals Board approved a settlement of a contested administrative matter which requires the Superfund to pay money back to four clients of Honigman Miller ...
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EPA Audit Policy Update

EPA has issued an update to its audit policy to encourage companies with multiple facilities to take advantage of that policy by conducting corporate - wide audits and developing corporate - wide compliance systems. The audit policy eliminates ...
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EPA Settlement Policies and Contribution Protection

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ("CERCLA"), 42 U.S.C. §§9601 et seq., establishes a liability scheme under which "responsible parties" may be jointly and severally liable for the costs of investigating and ...
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