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February 04, 2022

Deregulation law doesn't preempt payment provisions in dispute - Business Insurance

A Texas appellate court on Thursday ruled that federal aviation law does not preempt state law regulating the payment for medical services and sent a long-running fee dispute between air ambulance providers and workers compensation insurers back to a trial court. PHI Air Medical LLC provides emergency air ambulance services and is licensed as an air carrier by the Federal Aviation Administrat...
February 04, 2022

Air Ambulance Provider Subject to Texas Workers' Comp Pay Law - Bloomberg Law

A medical helicopter outside a hospital in Orem, Utah, on Oct. 13, 2009. An air ambulance provider’s payment for transporting injured workers must be determined under a Texas law governing workers’ compensation insurance, as a federal law doesn’t preempt it, a Texas appeals court said. The Texas Workers’ Compensation Act’s prohibition on balance billing—charging patients for unpaid amounts—ha...
February 04, 2022

Vast DOJ Probe Looks at Almost 30 Short-Selling Firms and Allies - Bloomberg Law

FBI said to show up at home of Citron’s Left in early 2021 Subpoenas to some firms since have sought info on dozens more The Justice Department is collecting a trove of information on dozens of investment firms and researchers engaged in short selling as part of a sweeping U.S. hunt for potential trading abuses, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Federal Bureau of Investi...
February 04, 2022

Polunsky Beitel Green Recognized as a “Legal Technology Trailblazer” by The National Law Journal - Business Wire

SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Polunsky Beitel Green, the country’s leading law firm representing mortgage lenders, has been named one of the nation’s most innovative law firms by The National Law Journal. The publication’s 2022 Legal Technology Trailblazers, which recognizes law firms and companies that have used technology to change the way their businesses operate, honored PBG for its devel...
February 04, 2022

Law Firm Founder Mohaimina Haque Joins American University - GlobeNewswire

Washington, DC, Feb. 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mohaimina "Mina" Haque, renowned immigration, employment, business, and personal injury lawyer, has joined the adjunct faculty of American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) to teach about launching and managing a law practice. Haque is the principal attorney and founder of the Law Office of Mohaimina Haque PLLC and regularly repres...
February 04, 2022

Law Firm Founder Mohaimina Haque Joins American University Law School’s Adjunct Faculty to Teach Practice Management - Yahoo Finance

Washington, DC, Feb. 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mohaimina "Mina" Haque, renowned immigration, employment, business, and personal injury lawyer, has joined the adjunct faculty of American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) to teach about launching and managing a law practice. Haque is the principal attorney and founder of the Law Office of Mohaimina Haque PLLC and regularly repres...
February 04, 2022

Infrastructure Law Fully Funds New Montgomery Lock - The Waterways Journal

Montgomery photo With more than 97 percent of the Pittsburgh Engineer District’s funding in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) allocated to the full funding of the Montgomery Locks construction work, developers say it will prevent delays and cost overruns while ensuring continued navigability for decades to come. The Corps of Engineers released its work plan in January. Among o...
February 04, 2022

COUNCILMEMBER THOMAS' DRIVING EQUALITY LAW TO GO INTO EFFECT FEBRUARY 24TH - phlcouncil.com

Philadelphia Police are in the process of being trained on this new policing policy PHILADELPHIA, PA — After 120 days for police training and implementation, Driving Equality will be an enforceable law in Philadelphia effective February 24, 2022. Driving Equality reclassifies seven minor motor vehicle code violations as secondary violations which will not be administered with a traffic stop...
February 04, 2022

Third Circuit holds application of PA usury law to auto loans made to PA residents at out-of-state locations does not violate Commerce Clause - JD Supra

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently ruled that the application of Pennsylvania usury laws to vehicle-secured loans made to Pennsylvania residents who travel outside of Pennsylvania to obtain such loans does not violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The decision could have significant implications for all providers of consumer credit whose operations involv...
February 04, 2022

Israel not apartheid state, but must uphold int'l law, UK says - The Jerusalem Post

An Amnesty International report laid out a long list of its allegations of Israeli human rights abuses in the document, including inequitable access to land, housing and citizenship. Israel Apartheid Week at Columbia University. The United Kingdom dismissed Amnesty International's claim that Israel was an apartheid state but warned that it must uphold international law and Palestinian human ...