In a recent Chief Healthcare Executive article, Thompson Coburn Health Care attorneys Mackenzie Wallace and Ashton Dietrich examined the growing pressures rural hospitals face when negotiating with Medicare Advantage and commercial payers.
The article outlines key considerations surrounding network adequacy requirements, reimbursement
On October 1, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued Directive 26-12, Corporate Enforcement in the Fight Against Fraud (the “Directive”), which sets out the priorities and approach that will govern the investigation and prosecution of corporate fraud by
A Cybersecurity Awareness Month series from Thompson Coburn’s Data Governance, Privacy and Cybersecurity practice group
In 2020, a hacker went undetected for three months inside the network of Blackbaud, a South Carolina company that provides fundraising, financial, and administrative software
In a recent Law360 article, Thompson Coburn attorneys Brent Trame, Nabil Al-Khaled, and Christian Witte examine how recent SEC actions and a proposed rescission of Rule 14a-8 could significantly reshape the shareholder proposal process and corporate governance landscape.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins may not have had the jack-o’-lantern faces pictured on their packaging, but a federal court concluded that those missing details did not give consumers a concrete injury sufficient to support a proposed class action.
In Vidal
The Sixth Circuit has wiped out a $31.8 million jury verdict that Hello Farms, a licensed Michigan cultivator, had won against Curaleaf subsidiaries for walking away from a supply contract. The court’s reasoning was direct: federal courts cannot enforce agreements
For some time, Title IX compliance has come with an odd disconnect. Institutions have been following the 2020 Title IX regulations, but the official text in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) still showed the 2024 rule that courts had
What happens when the FDA says it won’t enforce a labeling rule, but the rule itself never changes? In Franco v. Chobani, LLC, 184 F.4th 599 (7th Cir. 2026), the Seventh Circuit answered: the rule still counts, and state-law claims
This course is drawn from Steve Gorin’s 3rd quarter 2026 newsletter. First, the Tax Court held that remaindermen who consented to trust termination and distribution to the income beneficiary made a massive gift by consenting, even though the income
California’s climate disclosure laws—SB 253 (the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act) and SB 261 (the Climate-Related Financial Risk Act)—impose significant new greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions reporting and climate risk disclosure obligations on thousands of large companies doing business in the
