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Shameless Plug: Virtual ACI Drug & Device Conference (December 8-9)

By Bexis

November 28, 2020

As we mentioned, several of your Reed Smith bloggers are making plans to attend ACI’s annual Drug and Medical Device Litigation conference, as they celebrate the 25th anniversary of the event. We’re looking forward to great content and virtual networking opportunities – and maybe even the chance to catch up with some of our loyal readers at a virtual table or coffee station (phrases we didn’t imagine saying when the year began). Since…

Antitrust and Competition Report

The UK’s new National Security and Investment Bill – what do you need to know?

By Ross Mackenzie, Prajakt Samant, Marjorie Holmes, Simone Goligorsky, Vaibhav Adlakha & Nadia Macci

November 26, 2020

In our latest client alert, we provide a practical overview of the UK’s recently published National Security and Investment Bill, which forms part of a new regime that greatly extends the government’s power to intervene in takeovers of UK businesses if there is a threat to national security. In addition to proving background on this latest move, we address the following areas which may be of particular interest: Mandatory notification Qualifying entities and assets Voluntary…

Ship Law Log

Letters of indemnity

By Anushka Karunaratne & Sophie Ainscough

November 26, 2020

Welcome back to our new series of ‘back to basics’ blogs in which we will provide blogs focused on common legal issues. This blog post looks at letters of indemnity, a sometimes unreliable but commonplace feature of the shipping industry. When might an LOI be required: Letters of indemnity act as an unofficial form of insurance in instances where a party is requested to step out of the bounds of its contracted obligations.…

Employment Law Watch

Pennsylvania employers may need to revise policies and practices within the workplace in response to new mitigation order by Governor Wolf

By James A. Holt & Marguerite Goglia

November 25, 2020

On November 23, 2020, Governor Tom Wolf issued the Order of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for Mitigation, Enforcement and Immunity Protections, which establishes various mitigation measures that Pennsylvania businesses must implement effective November 27, 2020. Many of these measures are already familiar to Pennsylvania businesses that have been implementing the mitigation measures prescribed by the April 15 worker and business safety order, which we discussed in a previous article.…

Drug & Device Law

S.D. Indiana Orders New IVC Filter Trial Due to Erroneous Admission of Prejudicial Email

By Stephen McConnell

November 25, 2020

This is the third consecutive week a case from Indiana has been in our sights. By and large, we have been impressed with the quality of the Indiana judiciary in both the state and federal courts. One hallmark of exemplary judging is the capacity to revisit rulings and change course when necessary. We clerked for a judge (William Norris on the Ninth Circuit) who was brilliant and hard-working and hardly ever made mistakes, but when…

Structured Finance In Brief

Lessons learnt from “The Missing Cryptoqueen”: has cryptocurrency regulation caught up?

By Nathan Menon & Georgia Crossman

November 25, 2020

Read time: 4 minutes As terms like social distancing and the second wave have permeated our lives throughout the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, people have been forced to adapt to the new normal. It hasn’t been all bad, and an unanticipated quirk of lockdown has been the huge uptake in hobbies and personal interests as people adopt new methods of entertainment. With podcasts growing in popularity before the pandemic, they have now entered a golden age,…

Antitrust and Competition Report

Does competition law have a role in achieving a greener economy?

By Geert Goeteyn

November 24, 2020

Under what conditions can competition law be a force that is enabling, rather than obstructive? We examine how competition law may be a useful tool to achieve a greener economy, in our latest client alert.…

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Supermodel Sues for Alleged Unauthorized Use of Her Likeness

By Jason Gordon & Bretta Oluyede

November 24, 2020

On November 16, 2020, supermodel Anastassia Khozissova filed a $20 million lawsuit in the New York state court against Ralph Lauren Corp. (“Ralph Lauren”) and HBO for their alleged unauthorized use of her likeness. Ms. Khozissova has been featured in campaigns and runway shows for numerous luxury brands, including Ralph Lauren. The model once shared a close working relationship with Ralph Lauren having been featured as the only model in the brand’s book “Diary of…

Drug & Device Law

No Manufacturer Liability for After Market Modifications

By Michelle Yeary

November 24, 2020

Today’s topic is something a little different. We don’t usually think of after market modifications to prescription drugs and medical devices. If this were a blog about cars, computers, or almost anything with a motor or engine that can be enhanced for speed – user modifications would be a central theme. In the drug and device world when we talk about things that happen “after market,” we’re usually talking about off-label uses. It’s not so…

Health Industry Washington Watch

Final Rules Modernizing Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Released

By Selina Coleman, Katie Pawlitz, James Segroves, Nicole Aiken-Shaban, James F. Hennessy & Andrew Lu

November 23, 2020

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released complementary rules this past Friday, November 20, 2020, to modernize and clarify the regulations that interpret the Physician Self-Referral Law (the Stark Law) and the federal Anti-Kickback Statute. As we wrote when the proposed rules were released last autumn (see client alerts here and here), the rules reflect HHS’s attempt to create exceptions and safe harbors that refine the Stark Law’s strict-liability-based civil penalties and…

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Shameless Plug: Virtual ACI Drug & Device Conference (December 8-9)

The UK’s new National Security and Investment Bill – what do you need to know?

Letters of indemnity

Pennsylvania employers may need to revise policies and practices within the workplace in response to new mitigation order by Governor Wolf

S.D. Indiana Orders New IVC Filter Trial Due to Erroneous Admission of Prejudicial Email

Lessons learnt from “The Missing Cryptoqueen”: has cryptocurrency regulation caught up?

Does competition law have a role in achieving a greener economy?

Supermodel Sues for Alleged Unauthorized Use of Her Likeness

No Manufacturer Liability for After Market Modifications

Final Rules Modernizing Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Released

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