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Government Program Fraud, False Claims Act & Qui Tam Litigation
Investigations and litigation involving alleged fraud against the government pose a significant and growing threat to organizations and individuals across all industries that engage directly or indirectly in business with federal, state, and/or local governments. The government makes aggressive use of its extensive criminal and civil investigatory powers to root out alleged fraud and abuse implicating government funds, including one of its most powerful civil enforcement tools—the federal False Claims Act (FCA)—and similar state false claims statutes.
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|January 24, 2024
Winston Represents Grupo Calleja in its US$1.2 billion Acquisition of Almacenes Éxito
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|June 4, 2024
2024 Health Care & Life Sciences Summit
Winston & Strawn is pleased to host our Annual Health Care & Life Sciences Summit on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, both virtually and in person in our Chicago office.
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|May 21, 2024
Bite-Sized Insights: Legal Trends Impacting the Food & Beverage Industry
Join Winston & Strawn on May 21 for a CLE-accredited webinar during which we’ll uncork the latest class action, environmental, labor, and antitrust trends affecting the food and beverage industry.
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|May 15, 2024
Winston Sponsors, Kevin Goldstein Speaks at GCR Live: Cartels 2024
Winston & Strawn Antitrust/Competition partner Kevin Goldstein will speak on the panel “Where did the safe harbours go? Adrift in the sea of information sharing” at this year’s GCR Live: Cartels on May 15, 2024, in Washington D.C. from 11:35am-12:35pm EST. This panel will focus on recent DOJ actions revoking longstanding healthcare guidelines and how companies seeking market information should mitigate risk in light of the potential equivalence between information sharing and cartel behavior as perceived by European and other enforcers.
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Law Glossary
What Is Health Care Privacy Law?
Today, health care privacy law is driven by the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. This federal privacy rule establishes protections for specific patient health information. Health care plans, clearinghouses, and providers are subject to the law.
Law Glossary
What Is Health Care Security Law?
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) established U.S. regulations to protect the privacy and security of individual health information. The health care security law creates these specific protections through both the HIPAA Privacy Rule and the HIPAA Security Rule. The Privacy Rule has set national standards for the protection of certain types of health information. The Security Rule established security standards for protecting consumers’ health information that is stored or transferred electronically. The health care Security Rule outlines the operational safeguards that organizations must implement to keep protected electronic health information secure.
Law Glossary
The full name of the Dodd-Frank Act is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. It was passed in 2010 to regulate the financial market and protect consumers from risky financial practices. The legislation and its rules cover the following: