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April 2016
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Get the Dirt on Soil, Air and Water:  Recent Developments in Environmental Law [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]In this FREE two-hour seminar, property owners, business owners and operators, and commercial developers will hear from a panel of the region’s experienced environmental law attorneys about recent and expected developments of local impact such as: The Warren Buffet Effect...
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Effective July 1, 2016, the filing schedule with the Indiana Secretary of State for non-profit corporation business entity reports (“BER”) has changed from every year to every other year.  To transition to this new cycle, entities formed between January 1st and June 30th of a given year are still required to file a BER in...
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On Feb. 11, 2016, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued its long-awaited final rule on the mandatory reporting and return of overpayments, commonly known as “the 60-day rule.”  Medicare and Medicaid providers, suppliers and managed care contractors are to report and return any overpayments within 60 days of their identification.  Retention of...
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By now, we are all aware that the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has proposed to increase the salary threshold for individuals to be exempt from overtime pay.  We know, through the publishing of the proposed regulations, that the government seeks to increase the salary threshold from $23,660 annually to $50,440 annually.  We...
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The Evansville-Area Human Resource Association, Inc. (EHRA) – a professional association for human resource professionals in the tri-state area of Southwestern Indiana, Kentucky and Southern Illinois and an affiliate chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management – is hosting it’s 2016 Spring Conference next Wednesday, April 20, 2016. Topics of interest to human resources professionals...
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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has seen a number of challenges since its passage in 2010. In continuing this trend, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments on the latest challenge to the law at the end of March, this time from the Little Sisters of the Poor. At issue was the...
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On April 4, 2016, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) Office of General Counsel issued new guidance on the application of the Fair Housing Act to the use of criminal records by landlords, property managers, sellers, lenders, and other providers of housing. This guidance addresses how “discriminatory effects” and “disparate impact” liability...
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The recent Indiana Supreme Court decision in Goodrich Quality Theaters, Inc. v. Fostcorp Heating and Cooling, Inc., et al was a matter of first impression under the Indiana mechanic’s lien statute.  In this case, several subcontractors brought an action against a property owner and its general contractor seeking to foreclose on their respective mechanic’s liens....
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Kahn, Dees, Donovan & Kahn, LLP is pleased to announce the hiring of associate attorneys Mallory C. Deckard and W. Royal Gearhart II. Mallory Deckard represents individual and business clients in her practice of insurance subrogation and defense, litigation and trial services, personal injury law, medical malpractice law, family law, and environmental law.  A native...
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