Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | USA | 12 Jan 2015
As the weather turns colder, concerns about the flu resurface. With many reports that this year's flue vaccine is less effective than usual, flu…
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | USA | 2 Oct 2014
As the weather turns colder, concerns about the flu resurface. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued updated guidance for…
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | USA | 12 Mar 2014
Recent media accounts (e.g. this report — Blood Test Predicts Alzheimer's Disease - by CNN ) suggest that medical researchers have discovered a…
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | USA | 10 Sep 2013
Last month, the Sixth Circuit in Kindred Nursing Centers East, LLC v. NLRB enforced the National Labor Relations Board's 2011 Specialty Healthcare II…
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | USA | 25 Jan 2013
There has always been a tension between a health care employer's desire to protect its patient relationships and a physician's obligation not to…
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | USA | 9 Dec 2010
Yesterday, the Sixth Circuit announced its decision in Jakubowski v. The Christ Hospital, Inc. which very well demonstrates the attention that employers need to pay to the interactive process when an employee approaches it for a reasonable accommodation for a disability.
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | USA | 11 Nov 2010
In the day-to-day administration of their Ohio workers' compensation programs, self-insured employers (or a TPA or law firm on their behalf) often will obtain a medical authorization from the injured worker and then obtain medical records as part of the employers' medical investigation.
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | USA | 8 Oct 2010
While most employment lawyers, myself included, have been focusing lately on the opportunities and risks associated with monitoring new technologies such as social media and GPS devices, the Seventh Circuit reminds us that employers also need to remember that "low-tech" monitoring of employees can result in unexpected liability as well.
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | USA | 16 Sep 2010
Late last month, we reported on some employment terminations in the health care industry that were prompted by some ill-advised Facebook postings.
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP | USA | 24 Aug 2010
We are starting to see an increase in the number of news articles reporting on health care facilities terminating employees for violating patient privacy on their facebook pages or other social media.