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Adopted Regulations for Notaries Public and Remote Online Notary (RON)
Effective January 25, 2023, in connection with the newly passed statute allowing for remote notarization, the Department of State published Regulations applicable not only to electronic notarial acts but also to all notarial acts including in-person notarization.
Co-op? Condo ? Condop? What’s the difference?
Ownership of real estate in New York City can be one of four distinct legal types – traditional home ownership of a townhouse or three different forms of ownership for apartments in multi-unit buildings: a co-op, a condo or a condop...
Emails and HIPAA Violations: Small physician practices are not immune to OCR investigation.
Many providers transmit their patients’ Protected Health Information (“PHI”) in unsecured e-mails. Through audits, some providers have discovered that their employees routinely included patient PHI in both the subject line and body of e-mails sent internally and externally...
False Claims Act and Free Drug Samples
As a result of a qui tam action commenced pursuant to the whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act, pharmaceutical company Sanofi US Agreed this week to Pay $109 Million to resolve False Claims Act Allegations of free product kickbacks to physicians. Pursuant to the allegations, Sanofi agreed to give free units of Hyalgan, a knee injection, to physicians who agreed to purchase and prescribe the product...
Navigating Commercial Lease Assignment Provisions: Tenants Beware
Landlords use lease assignment provisions to maintain control over the quality, composition, and financial capability of their tenants. However, assignment provisions can have a chilling effect on a corporate tenant’s business operations and ownership structure. In this article, we explore the various pitfalls that corporate tenants should avoid when negotiating and drafting assignment provisions in commercial leases...
Representations and Warranties in a Contract?
Every contract has representations and warranties, which are basically the underlying matters or facts as they are being presented in terms of the contract...
