The State Bar of Michigan Health Care Law Section (HCLS) has named health care lawyer Louis C. Szura as chair for a one-year term (2018-19).
Szura, a founding partner of Southfield law firm Szura & Delonis, P.L.C., was selected during the HCLS Annual Meeting on September 20th.
Government reimbursement is a major sticking point for physicians seeking to incorporate telehealth into their practice. The requirements for government telehealth reimbursement are burdensome and make implementing such services difficult to justify economically, despite the potential benefits to patients and providers.
However, earlier this month the Centers for Medicare...
After making the decision to start your own small business, it is a smart idea to make an experienced business lawyer an integral part of your team as soon as possible. He or she will help you to determine which type of entity to form, and then relieve you of the burden...
Sometimes you’re stuck. You must arbitrate. Maybe you entered an agreement to do so. Is such an agreement binding and enforceable? If you willingly sign an agreement to arbitrate there’s a pretty good chance you’ll be bound. However, not all such agreements are enforceable. You may still be able to get out....
Legal technicalities may not be invoked to avoid paying sales agents’ commissions. That’s the essence of Michigan’s procuring cause doctrine – an equitable doctrine established by Michigan’s supreme court to protect commission based sales agents.[1] This doctrine protects all manner of sales agents including manufacturer’s reps, purveyors of information systems technology and software, employment...
People form business entities to protect their personal assets. They do not want to be personally liable for their business’s debts. However, a business owner’s personal assets can sometimes be seized to pay business debts. This happens when a court reviews “the entire spectrum of...
If you were a party to a civil lawsuit would you want a jury or a judge to decide your fate? Juries are typically seen as favoring the little guy, usually the plaintiff. But maybe that perception is wrong. Researchers Valerie Hans and Stephanie Albertson found that “beliefs that jurors are highly sympathetic to individual plaintiffs...
By: Del A. Szura
Multiemployer defined benefit pension plans face the problem of underfunding. Will there be enough money to pay pensioners the benefits they’ve been promised? Such pension funds are insured through the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, but only minimally.
In the 1970’s Congress enacted...
The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Universal Health Services v. Escobar will likely expand liability under the False Claims Act, meaning the potential for more qui tam lawsuits. The case concerned how the failure to disclose noncompliance with statutory, regulatory or contractual requirements might create liability under the False Claims Act.
The full...
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