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January 11th, 2021 $ 250.00 Title IX Regulations Training (Higher Education) Bricker & Eckler’s higher ed team is pleased to announce a full series of Title IX trainings, all available via online webcast. All training events use discussions of hypothetical situations to encourage engagement with the materials, and Level 2 training events include live role-playing scenarios to allow participants to practice their skills. *Training materials will be provided t...

While Congress passed additional coronavirus relief on December 21, 2020, an extension of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) was not included. Although President Trump...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has announced a flurry of enforcement actions in the last quarter of 2020 as part of its Right of Access Initiative. The Right of Access Initiative began in 2019 with OCR declaring its intention to enforce vigorously the rights of patients to receive copies of their medical records promptly and without being overcharged. Since then, this initiative ha...

On December 15, 2020, in Menorah Park v. Rolston, the Ohio Supreme Court declined to overturn Biddle v. Warren Gen. Hosp., 86 Ohio St.3d 395 (1999). As a result of this decision, providers will remain subject to liability under a private cause of action for breach of medical confidentiality if they are found improperly disclosing medical records.  Background In Biddle, the Supreme Court judicially created a new, private cause of action that can be brought by a patient (or the patient’s re...

On December 16, 2020, in Ray et al. v. Breda et al., the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio found that the Ohio Department of Health’s (ODH) policy to deny requests for sex marker changes on birth certificates by transgender individuals is unconstitutional, aligning Ohio with the 48 other states that have already permitted such changes.  In 2019, four transgender individuals (Plaintiffs) filed suit against ODH challenging its policy that denied a transgender pers...

If you’re looking for our Higher Ed Title IX trainings, click here. The final Title IX regulations have been released. How will the new requirements affect your policies and procedures? Join Bricker & Eckler attorneys for a series of trainings to learn how to remain compliant. Note that Level 1 registration fees are $40 and Level 2 registration fees are $100. Decision-maker with live hearing registration fees are $200. Registrants for six training sessions (excluding Level 2: K-12 Title IX de...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 20, 2020, Congressional leaders announced a $900 billion stimulus package and $1.4 trillion government funding deal that includes a long-discussed measure to protect patients from receiving “surprise” medical bills. If the stimulus bill is passed by both chambers of Congress and signed into law by President Trump, the measure would result in major changes for health care providers and payers. The “surprise” bills t...

On December 17, 2020, just days after its decision in West v. Bode (previously summarized by Bricker attorneys), the Ohio Supreme Court issued another major decision for surface and mineral owners in Ohio. In Gerrity v. Chervenak, Slip Opinion No. 2020-Ohio-6705, the Court formally weighed in, for the first time, on the level of diligence required by a surface owner who is researching severed mineral interest holders in order to serve a notice of abandonment pursuant to the Ohio Dormant Miner...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The EEOC recently published guidance in anticipation of employers mandating that their employees get COVID-19 vaccines as they become more widely available. The EEOC confirms that employers can require that employees receive the COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment and may also require proof of vaccination subject to certain limitations. Such limitations include providing reasonable accommodations (including telework and ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As we rapidly approach the New Year, higher education institutions should ensure they have met their foreign gift and contract reporting requirements. Institutions are required by Section 117 of the Higher Education Act to biannually report to the Department of Education  (ED) gifts or contracts valued at $250,000 or more that are entered with a foreign government or non-governmental foreign source. The burden of reporting gifts or c...