Recently, several Ward and Smith attorneys held a Health Care Breakfast and Learn to provide insights on the healthcare industry relevant to their specific areas of expertise, from privacy and da...

A partially physician-owned hospital in Flower Mound, Texas, will pay millions to resolve allegations that it violated Stark Law, and the physician partner who blew the whistle will receive $3 mi...

Mandatory Employment Arbitration – Yes or No?

December already? We took a brief hiatus from our Best of Law Blogging series last week to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, but this Friday we are back with some of our favorite blog posts fro...

Employees of CARIS Life Sciences filed a lawsuit against the Texas health care company on Tuesday over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The mandate required all employees to be vaccinated by Decembe...

The new variant is putting a lot of pressure on HR – are you prepared for what comes next? As Omicron lurks in the background, employers and employees are monitoring the situation with breath hel...

A social justice group lauded the initiative of the New Brunswick government to hike minimum wage over the course of 2022 - but warned that it will not be enough to help employees out of poverty....

Texas Republicans are committed to minority-rule reactionary politics. They recently legislated to suppress the vote, created penalties for cities that reduce police budgets, protected marauding ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently awarded approximately $36 million to a whistleblower who was culpable in the wrongful conduct and delayed reporting information to the a...