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June 02, 1999 |

Challenge to HMO's Care Guidelines Survives

A Manhattan judge has given the go-ahead to a class action against a leading HMO for letting personnel other than doctors decide what length of hospital stay will be covered. In denying the Prudential Insurance Company's bid to dismiss the case in its entirety, Supreme Court Justice Herman Cahn said the suit can proceed even though the plaintiffs had failed to exhaust their remedies under the insurance contract. The judge refused, however, to declare the insurance contracts void on public policy grounds.
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May 11, 2007 |

Crossing Cultures

When dealing with Asian clients, be careful how you handle business cards, and be attentive to who sits where. In Latin countries, be prepared for two-hour meals before talking business. In China, save the small talk for after the deal. And in France, you may want to arrive to a meeting fashionably late. Globalization of the legal world has led more lawyers to travel overseas and work with foreign clients, so grasping another country's customs can make or break a deal.
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February 02, 2010 |

Gains by Minority Attorneys Withstand Downturn in Florida

When the recession began, many in the South Florida legal community worried the diversity gains made in recent years would take a serious hit if law firms used last-hired, first-fired policies to cut staff, disproportionately affecting minorities. The Daily Business Review's annual diversity survey, however, indicates minorities actually made gains at several firms in spite of the recession. And overall, firms small and large seem to be increasing their minority recruiting efforts.
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November 28, 2005 |

IOLTA Ineligible List

Notice to the bar.
21 minute read
November 21, 2006 |

Passing Grades July 2006

California Bar Passing Grades from July 2006
38 minute read
December 17, 1999 |

Companies Fear Outcome of Benefits Suits

Mention Microsoft and Time Warner to employment lawyers and one thing comes to mind: litigation over misclassified workers. Depending on the outcome of suits filed against the two companies, the potential liability they face for denying certain workers employee benefits could be enormous. And that risk has sent a chill down the collective spines of employers across the country.
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June 04, 2003 |

Defendants appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Anne Targum, J.), entered January 4, 2002, to the extent that it denied defendants' motions for summary judgment.
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January 10, 2005 |

Rahway Hospital v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey

The commissioner of the Department of Banking and Insurance incorrectly construed N.J.S.A. 17:48E-10(a)(2), of the Health Service Corporations Act, as precluding plaintiff-hospital from recovering the difference between the below-cost contract payment rates and higher out-of-network market rates for medical services it provided to non-HMO Horizon subscribers during the four-month period following termination of its in-network health-care services agreement with Horizon.
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October 28, 2002 |

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September 28, 2007 |

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