State AG’s Take Up Fight for Scammed Homeowners: Are They the Answer to Protecting Homeowners? Can our nation’s state attorney generals intervene in the markets based on the simple fact that from Wall Street to Main Street, the credit, mortgage and housing bubbles were built on nothing but unfair and deceptive business practices?” Massachusetts Courts: [...]
Obama v. McCain: A Tale of Two Health Care Plans The difference between Barack Obama’s and John McCain’s health care reform proposals couldn’t be starker. Obama’s health insurance plan is based on the reforms enacted under Mitt Romney in Massachusetts. McCain’s health care plan has some roots in existing plans in about 34 states, which [...]
Attorney Roger Glovsky, a business lawyer in Massachusetts, is in the guest blogger’s chair today. Thanks, Roger! Legal services can be expensive! The average hourly billing rate for lawyers set new records this year at $352 for senior partners and $227 for senior associates. Sometimes, it is hard to justify high billing rates unless the [...]
An E. coli outbreak that has sickened people in at least 12 states and Cananda has been associated with Nebraska Beef, Ltd. beef products that were sold under the Coleman brand. As a result, Nebraska Beef recalled 1.2 million pounds of ground beef. We have contacted a number of the states involved in this outbreak, [...]
Massachusetts, looking for ways to pay for its universal health care plan, is pushing businesses to do more. Businesses are pushing back. A plan announced yesterday by the governor’s office would require most companies with more than 10 employees to pay at least 33% of full-time workers’ premiums within the first 90 days of employment [...]
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) on Sunday signed into law broad health care legislation that will raise $100 million in state funds and fees on private companies to fund the state’s health insurance law, the Boston Globe reports. More: continued here Tags: 97, Companies, E, Globe, Health, Health insurance, Insurance, Law, Massachusetts, Sun, The
Two newspapers recently published editorials discussing a plan by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) that would require businesses, health care providers and insurers to contribute more to the state’s health insurance law. Summaries appear below. Boston Globe: “In the spirit of keeping together” businesses, insurers, health care providers “and others that have collaborated on the [...]
CMS on Monday announced that it has granted Massachusetts a third extension on a Medicaid waiver that would allow the state to divert $385 million in federal funds for the program towards funding for the state’s new health care law, the AP/Boston Globe reports. The current waiver would have expired on June 30, but the [...]
Proponents of the Massachusetts health insurance law “underestimated costs and overestimated revenue,” which has “obliged the state to spend more to subsidize insurance” to keep the “law’s promises,” Alan Sager and Deborah Socolar, directors of the Health Reform Program at the Boston University School of Public Health, write in a Boston Globe opinion piece. read [...]
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) on Tuesday signed into law a bill that increases the state cigarette tax by $1 per pack, the AP/Boston Globe reports. The increase, which brings the tax to $2.51, took effect immediately. On Monday, the bill was approved by the state House and Senate by votes of 93-52 and 26-9, [...]
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