On Friday, January 27th, Chris Pappas presented a course at the Annual Texas Bar CLE Alternative Dispute Resolution Seminar in Austin, Texas with Courtenay L. Bass of the Gilbert Mediation Group and Trey Bergman of the Bergman ADR Group. The experts […]
In December of 2015, federal Judge Robert L. Pitman declined to dismiss Teladoc’s antitrust suit, holding that the TMB was not immune (as it had argued) from such claims. The decision pointed to the February 2015 Supreme Court decision, North Carolina […]
Directors Karin Zaner and Richard Hathaway of Kane Russell Coleman & Logan have successfully defended a physician client in a contentious jury trial in which the plaintiff alleged breach of contract, fraud, fraudulent inducement, and tortious interference […]
Director Chip Morris and Associate Demetri Economou have recently been published in Recent Developments in Business and Corporate Litigation, 2016 Edition - Intellectual Property Law. The attorneys collaboratively wrote about intellectual […]
The rule issued by the Texas Medical Board requiring physicians to conduct a face-to-face or in-person visit with a patient in order to establish a defined physician-patient relationship, was not slated to go into effect until June 3, 2015. With the […]
Telemedicine will no doubt make an impact on the way health care is delivered in Texas, as well as in the rest of the country. Teladoc, a Dallas-based provider of telehealth services, given its continued conflicts with the Texas Medical Board dating […]
In a surprising move on Monday, the Texas Medical Board (TMB) voluntarily dismissed its appeal to the Fifth Circuit in the antitrust challenge brought by Dallas-based Teledoc, the largest provider of telehealth services in the U.S. The appeal requested […]
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and Week Two focuses on the protection of data in the workplace. “We are all part of protecting personal and organizational data in the workplace. From CEO to incoming entry-level employee, each […]
Johnson & Johnson has produced a Wi-Fi enabled One Touch Ping insulin pump system that allows users to send commands to the pump. This pump has been on the market for eight years, and as a result the system in the pump is not encrypted. This […]
On Thursday, September 22, 2016, Yahoo publicized a 2014 data breach “associated with at least 500 million user accounts.”[1] This may be the largest data breach ever, in terms of those affected.[2] Experts believe it could have a ripple effect […]
In an effort to better facilitate federal response to cyber-incidents[1] the Obama Administration released a Presidential Policy Directive on United States Cyber Incident Coordination (“PPD”)[2] on July 26, 2016. The PPD is a continuation of […]