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The No Surprises Act (NSA) establishes new federal protections against surprise medical bills that take effect in 2022. Surprise medical bills arise when insured consumers inadvertently receive care from out-of-network hospitals, doctors, or other providers they did not choose. Peterson-KFF and other studies find this happens in about 1 in 5 emergency room visits. In addition between 9% and 1...

On Friday, December 10, 2021, the President signed into law: S. 610, the “Protecting Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act,” which delays the Medicare sequester and make other changes to Medicare payments, and to modify procedures affecting federal budget scorekeeping and federal borrowing. Thank you to House Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Hoyer, Majority Whip Clyburn, Chairm...

Photo by Shutterstock What You Need to Know The salary increases that came out of the talent war have led expense costs at Am Law 200 firms to rise by double digits. The increases are most acute among the top 50 firms, where six-figure bonuses and millions in guarantees aren't rare. Next year, hybrid work is likely to emerge as another dimension in the talent market. The frantic war for t...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — More than a dozen law enforcement officers, dispatchers, investigators and citizens were recognized Thursday night by the Kern County Law Enforcement Foundation. The 33rd annual Officer of the Year Awards Dinner was held at the Kern County Fairgrounds. Among those honored was Kern County Sheriff’s Deputy Phillip Campas who was killed in July during a SWAT standoff...

Pork farmers across the United States are worried about Proposition 12, which California voters overwhelmingly passed in 2018, and is set to go into effect on the first of next year. The law requires farmers to keep pregnant pigs they plan on selling to California in spaces that are 24 square feet, much bigger than the industry standard of 14 to 18 square feet. Prop 12 was approved by 66% of ...

WASHINGTON — The leader of Amtrak told a U.S. House panel Thursday that the recently enacted infrastructure law made great strides to solving the passenger rail system’s financial woes and placed it on equal footing with other modes of transportation. Democrats on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s rail subcommittee and Amtrak Executive Director Stephen Gardner said the $...

It is quite interesting how Democrats, abortion rights activists, some conservatives who opt to use the term pro-choice (code for abortion); and the flying chimpanzees in the national media, are so quick to cite a violation of the Constitution when the subject is abortion. Indeed, Louis Mollica’s Nov. 26 letter speaks to his belief that originalism cast aside when the U.S. Supreme Court modif...

Khurram Parvez was a teenager when his grandfather, a civilian, was gunned down by the Indian army. Growing up in Kashmir in the 1990s, he became wearily familiar with such violence but it was an incident he would never forget. Over the next three decades, Parvez defended human rights and documented the alleged violence, torture and enforced disappearances of Kashmiris by Indian armed forces....

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Whether the state’s eviction law is constitutional is at the center of a federal lawsuit. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills declared the law, which allows landlords to seize tenants’ belongings during the eviction process, unconstitutional. This after a North Mississippi woman filed a federal lawsuit challenging that law. A year ago, we told you ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Whether the state’s eviction law is constitutional is at the center of a federal lawsuit. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills declared the law, which allows landlords to seize tenants’ belongings during the eviction process, unconstitutional. This after a North Mississippi woman filed a federal lawsuit challenging that law. A year ago, we told you ...