Law Students

New Data Breach rules and preemption
Do the New Data Breach Rules Pre-Empt State Data Breach Laws? (And if so, partially or completely?) Excellent question and answer from Edward Shay of Post & Schell: In an exchange on the AHLA's HIT listserv this morning, hipaacrat Shay had the following to say (HITECH is the HIPAA portion of ARRA):"Yesterday on the HITECH Part I conference call, Dan Orenstein asked me if I thought that HITECH

8/25/09 webinar to discuss soon-to-be-implemented breach notification requirements of the HITECH Act
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 included the HITECH Act, a law supporting the development of a nationwide health information technology (HIT) infrastructure for the use and exchange of health information for patient care....

FTC Issues Proposed Rules for Security Breach Notification under HITECH
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) posted its proposed rule today implementing new breach notification requirements for health records, which were required to be promulgated by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health ("HITECH") Act...

Let the Breach Notifications Begin! . . . (in 30 days, or so)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today in a News Release that it has issued new regulations requiring health care providers, health plans, and other entities (e...

HITECH Act part of stimulus package headed to President's desk: Steady, boys!
Some of us have now had a moment or two to read parts of the stimulus bill. One of the many stimuli included is the HITECH act, a $19 billion electronic health records funding provision...

HHS Issues Guidance on Security Breach Notification
On April 17, 2009, the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued guidance specifying the technologies and methodologies that render PHI unusable, unreadable, or indecipherable to unauthorized individuals, as required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act passed as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)...

$600k for a Tax Prof
Stephen Bainbridge (UCLA) reports the rumor that Yale has offered a Harvard corporate law professor a salary of $600k/year to jump ship. That got me to thinking -- what does the highest paid Tax Prof make? Comments are open! (Hat...

Reaction to HITECH and ARRA
What's your reaction been to ARRA and HITECH? The so-called Stimulus Bill (ARRA) contained the acronymiously adventurous HITECH provisions (that's the Health Information Technology for Econimic and Clinical Health Act), which strengthened HIPAA penalties, added more potential HIPAA regulators and enforcers, and made more people subject to HIPAA...

Torts
Introduction to Torts

Medical Records
To Stay out of Pharma's Hands

Princeton Review
Sarasota Student Data Breach Prompts Class Action

US Army Corps of Engineers
Class action dismissed for allegedly failing to protect New Orleans from the levee breach.

Security Breach
Check 'N Go to pay $220,000 settlement in personal information lawsuit.

Data Breach
USSearch.com to pay $250,000 settlement in information lawsuit.

Expedia
$184 Million Breach of Contract Settlement Reached