By: Aaron W. Brooks In February, 2009, Congress passed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (“HITECH Act”) as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Included within the statute was a new rule that anyone covered by the HIPAA privacy and security regulations must give certain notifications when they […]
Aaron Brooks April 24th, 2011
Posted In: Information Security, Privacy, Security & Information Technology
By: Alexander J. Mezny The Illinois Wage Theft Enforcement Act became effective January 1, 2011. It changes the relative leverage of parties in wage claim actions by expanding employer liability – including personal liability – for unpaid wages in nearly every conceivable fashion: Personal liability has been expanded beyond those in actual control of the decision […]
Alexander Mezny April 24th, 2011
Posted In: Employment & Labor