Health care providers, health plans and their business associates are prohibited from using or disclosing PHI when the PHI is requested to conduct a criminal, civil, or administrative investigation ...

We recently had occasion to review Model Rule 1.6, the rule governing attorney-client confidentiality issued by the American Bar Association (ABA), and to compare it with the version adopted by New ...

Is there a legal ethics rule that no lawyer ever has been sanctioned for having violated? The answer to that question is “no,” but because ABA Model Rule 2.1 comes very close, it is routinely ...

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The question of how much input the insurance industry should have on new privacy model rules divided some regulators and consumer advocates during a confusing ...

A final rule governing the use of automated valuation models in mortgage lending has now been published by a group of six federal regulators, the last step in the process of putting it into effect.