Lamb McErlane PC partner Vasilios (“Bill”) J. Kalogredis was a co-presenter on a recent webinar discussing how dental practice sales and valuations are being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Financial, personal, pragmatic and legal considerations were addressed. This is part two...
Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane PC attorneys James C. Sargent, Jr. and Katherine E. LaDow.* The Eminent Domain Code Pennsylvania’s Eminent Domain Code, 26 Pa.C.S.A. § 101, et seq., (“the Code”) codifies one of the most extraordinary and ominous...
Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis i and Rachel E. (Lusk) Klebanoffii. On July 17, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed a lower court’s decision and held that the...
August 4, 2020 Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis, Esquirei and Rachel E. (Lusk) Klebanoff, Esquireii After nearly a decade of litigation, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Novartis) has agreed to pay over $678 million in separate...
*Update: On Thursday, July 9, 2020 Gov. Tom Wolf signed an executive order barring home foreclosures and evictions through August. 31, 2020. The prohibition against evictions of non-paying tenants and defaulting mortgagors within the Commonwealth has been extended through July...
Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane PC Health Law Attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis[i] and Rachel E. Lusk. Pennsylvania has been working on improving things as to the dispensing and the use of opioids for the treatment of pain for several...
Physicians, dentists, podiatrists, veterinarians and other doctors face many decisions and forks in the road during their careers, from start to finish. One of the tougher, if not toughest, ones relates to how and when to cut back one’s clinical...
The Superior Court of Pennsylvania recently addressed application of the Patient Safety Quality Improvement Act (“PSQIA”), 42 U.S.C. § 299b 22(a), and the Peer Review Protection Act (“PRPA”), 63 P.S. § 425.4 in a case involving Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, a...
You received an offer for a new employment position – what do you do next? Before signing a physician or dentist employment contract, I recommend consulting with an experienced health care attorney. All terms guiding your relationship with the hospital...
The SECURE Act of 2019 made changes to the laws governing retirement benefits, including IRAs, 401(k)s and other qualified plans (collectively referred to as “Plans”). The major changes for estate planning are: 1) increasing the participant’s Required Beginning Date (“RBD”)...
In Leadbitter v. Keystone Anesthesia Consultants (2020 Pa. Super. LEXIS 116 (Feb. 12, 2020)), the Pennsylvania Superior Court recently urged the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to revisit whether, and to what extent, physician credentialing information is protected by the Pennsylvania Peer...
On June 3, 2020, the Senate approved the House-passed Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Flexibility Act (H.R. 7010) with strong bipartisan support. This bill provides new flexibility to PPP borrowers in several key respects: Borrowers can apply for a PPP loan...