Hurricane Florence made landfall just south of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina on the morning of September 14, 2018. Despite having weakened from its maximum strength as a Category 4 hurricane to a Category 1 hurricane… Read More
“Historic changes” may be coming for providers who treat Medicare beneficiaries, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). On July 12, 2018, CMS published its latest proposed rule—1,473 pages addressing topics that… Read More
Technology strikes again! On June 18, 2018, the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration issued an interim final rule that delays several provisions of the Medical Examiner’s Certification Integration. The action was necessary to complete IT… Read More
Since 2006, Congress has enacted several pieces of legislation that provide that certain distributions from an IRA be excluded from gross income to the extent that they are qualified charitable distributions. The exclusion, commonly called… Read More
Like me, you may have been the recipient of a recent onslaught of emails from businesses ranging from Amazon to Zillow notifying you of updates to their privacy policies. By and large, these updates have… Read More
The Supreme Court of the United States issued an important employment law decision on May 21, 2018, holding that employers can require employees to arbitrate certain workplace disputes on an individual basis rather than litigating… Read More
May is graduation season. As mortarboards are tossed into the air, new graduates are celebrating their tremendous accomplishments as well as the excitement of standing at the starting lines of the rest of their lives.… Read More
As seen in Put Into Practice, a newsletter published by Lawyers Mutual Liability Insurance Company of North Carolina About this time last year, I was elbow deep in books about strategic plans for nonprofit organizations. Having… Read More
The Eastern District of North Carolina recently upheld an insurer’s decision to deny a claim for theft based upon the policy’s Entrustment Exclusion in 2900 Rock Quarry, LLC v. Westfield Insurance Company, 2017 WL 2616961,… Read More
You are an employer, hiring to fill a position that requires an employee be on-call seven days per week. An otherwise suitable applicant informs you during the hiring process that he or she will not… Read More