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The Pittsburgh Post Gazette recently ran an article entitled "Special-needs trusts can provide for disabled children".This Article highlights an essential planning tool for individuals with special needs and their loved ones, but also the complexity of such planning. Special needs planning requires a strong estate planning foundation in addition a working knowledge of public benefits…

Surprise! Surprise! Another blow to healthcare reform. In an August 7, 2009 letter to the House Subcommittee on Health, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) concludes:

"Although different types of preventive care have different effects on spending, the evidence suggests that for most preventive services, expanded utilization leads to higher, not lower, medical spending overall."

"Researchers…

PNHP is a group of 16,000 doctors nationwide who advocate for single payor national health insurance for the purpose of "removing the wasteful insurance company middlemen from our health system and redirecting the resultant savings into care."

For an alternative view on the progress of health care reform from a different prospective, check their website…

Mike Cassidy has been named again as one of  America’s Best Lawyers in Healthcare , for the 2010 list.

Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. For a quarter century, we have helped lawyers and clients find legal counsel in unfamiliar jurisdictions or unfamiliar specialties.

Best Lawyers compiles lists…

A federal judge has conditionally certified a class of potentially 85,000 current and former employees of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in a Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuit challenging UPMC’s meal break policy. Conditional certification means that plaintiffs will be able to notify all current and former non-exempt employees from the past three years…

The Department of Labor recently issued new amendments to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).   Those amendments have added  to the notice requirements under the act, creating both a paperwork chore for businesses and a potential legal trap if  the required notices are not provided.  This Alert summarizes the new notice requirements.  

General Notice 

The General Notice must be…

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