By: Emily H. Lineweaver
As part of President Biden’s National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan aimed at helping Americans move forward from the pandemic safely, the Biden Administration has launched the Test to Treat initiative, which became effective March 7, 2022.
Through the initiative, those who test positive for COVID-19 and are deemed ...
By: Lindsay K. Scott
On March 15, 2022, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 was enacted into law. This spending bill extends certain telehealth waivers permitting patients to be located in their homes and other settings in order to receive telehealth services, allowing rural health clinics to be designated “distant sites” eligible ...
By: R. Joseph Stennis, Jr.
On March 3, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 (“Act”). This landmark legislation, which had strong bipartisan support, amends the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) for those individuals who allege they were sexually ...
By: Emily H. Lineweaver
On March 10, 2022, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco announced that Associate Deputy Attorney General Kevin Chambers will serve as the Director of the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force, which was created to identify and prosecute fraud related to the roughly $6 trillion in federal aid that Congress made ...
By: Alexa J. Elder
On February 14, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that social media influencer and wedding dress designer Hayley Paige Gutman (“Gutman”) can maintain exclusive control over the “misshayleypaige” TikTok account but must share access to the “misshayleypaige” Instagram ...
By: Jordan M. White
On February 18, 2022, legislation relating to frivolous lawsuits designed to restrict the exercise of a person’s constitutional rights passed the House by a vote of 82-0. In Kentucky politics, bipartisan support for a bill is rare, and downright unanimity is unheard of. HB 222 is known as an anti-SLAPP law—Strategic ...
In February 2022, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Iowa against Walmart alleging violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act for sex and race discrimination. The race discrimination claim is based on the allegation that the employee, who is Black, was provided an “unsanitary storage ...
By: Lindsay K. Scott
On February 24, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it will be distributing another $560 million of the Provider Relief Fund Phase 4 General Distribution payments this week. Over 1,000 Kentucky health care providers have received an aggregate of $181 million in aid through Phase 4 of the CARES ...
By: Lindsay K. Scott
On February 23, 2022, the Chief Counsel to the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) presented to the Federal Bar Association’s 2022 virtual qui tam conference that the OIG is actively investigating and pursuing civil monetary penalties for cases of provider fraud relating to the CARES ...
By: Emily H. Lineweaver
On February 18, 2022, President Biden announced he is extending the national emergency concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. As reported previously, it was set to expire on March 1, 2022, but with President Biden’s announcement, it will now extend beyond March 1, 2022.
In his letter to Congress providing notice of the ...