Lanton Law has been monitoring the state and federal policy developments with telehealth/telemedicine. We have noticed a newly introduced Congressional bill that is on point.
Read MoreWe are honored to have worked with STACK for Pharmacy on a great and timely webinar titled “The New Concerns of a Digital Workplace. COVID-19 has changed the way that we work, communicate and transfer information and finances. We discuss the early trends of what we are seeing from a transitioning marketplace.
Read MoreSTACK will be teaming up with Lanton Law to do an April 22, 2020 webinar at 1:00 PM EST titled “The New Concerns of a Digital Workplace.”
Read MoreAs organizational needs evolve right now, businesses are looking for innovative ways to become efficient and manage risks.
Read MoreU.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has announced the creation of new legislation titled the Data Protection Act. According to the Senator’s press release, the bill would create “the Data Protection Agency (DPA), an independent federal agency that would protect Americans’ data, safeguard their privacy, and ensure data practices are fair and transparent.
Read MoreIn preparation for 2020, Lanton Law is forecasting that it is more likely than not that some form of federal privacy legislation will become law in 2020. One proposed legislative candidate for privacy in 2020 is the Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act (COPRA).
Read MoreBack in August I started an analysis of how biosimilars will be impacted in the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). To refresh, in a follow up on a 2016 campaign promise to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Administration has been engaging Mexico and Canada in an effort to create and ratify the USMCA.
Read MoreNo matter if you are a hospital, physician, pharmacist, manufacturer, SAAS or Health IT provider, the lifeblood of your business is in your contracts. As an attorney what amazes me time after time is how contracts are often overlooked by businesses.
Read MoreNo matter what, technology will always move faster than the law. With this maxim and our ever increasing reliance on convenient information, we have seen technology companies try to bring us what we want to see while also collecting a staggering amount of information on consumers. With regulations scant on personal data, Congress is slowly becoming more active in making policy governing technology.
Read MoreOftentimes policy changes that sweep across the nation originate in policy “hot spots” like Massachusetts, California, New York, etc. This time its consumer privacy. As we rely more and more on the internet of things, artificial intelligence and fitness applications, we are unfortunately becoming more exposed to potential data breaches. If you operate in California, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will be a defining factor in how you manage risks around consumer data.
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