Over the past year, website operators have experienced a proliferation of lawsuits under the Federal Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”), a Reagan-era statute prohibiting the nonconsensual disclosure of an individual’s video tape rental history. Despite its nondigital origin, litigation under the VPPA has successfully targeted the ubiquitous use of tracking technologies on businesses’ websites, creating a risk of significant class-action damages under VPPA’s $2,500 per violation statutory-damages clause. Read on for more details about the risk of litigation under the VPPA and how best to avert it.

Notable litigation filed during April 2023 includes: (1) SEC v. French, et al., (2) Gary Kennedy v. Ghap, LLC, et al., (3) Abanda v. OurBloc LLC, et al., (4) Sunrise NPL, LLC v. Easy Financial, LLC, et al., and (5) Joseph v. General Conference Corporation of Seventh Day Adventist et al.

Dental support organizations have become an extremely popular investment vehicle in the past two decades. Currently, there is a steady move toward consolidation into larger organizations with better access to capital and efficiencies of scale.

Read on for analysis touching on likely buyers, self-organization, the right time to exit or take a “second bite,” some

As 2023 legislative sessions wind down, many states are considering bills that would require pre-close review or approval of healthcare transactions by a state agency or attorney general’s office, including one that passed this week in New York.

Although the details vary, these laws would join a growing list of statutes already in place that

Over the past few years, data privacy and security has been the focus of many state legislatures.  CA, CO, CT, IA, UT and VA have already passed comprehensive data privacy laws. Indiana joined them on May 1, 2023 when the Governor signed the latest consumer privacy bill into law.  Many other states have bills in the legislatures that are likely to become law, including FL, MT and TN (where the bills are awaiting the governors’ signatures).   Though most of these laws apply to businesses that control or process personal data of 100,000 or more residents in each of those states, California’s data privacy law applies to any business that has gross annual revenue of over $25M if it collects the personal data of any California resident, which includes employees and business contacts.

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

5–6:30 p.m. Networking reception

Thursday, September 28, 2023

8–9 a.m. Registration and breakfast 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Program and lunch

Join fellow healthcare leaders for an interactive full-day program discussing the latest developments in the industry and the challenges we face in the wake of economic uncertainty. With substantive panels and ample networking

The growing cardiology subsector is one of the most sought-after and competitive specialties for healthcare investors.

Stemming from an aging population and growing obesity demographic trends, demand for cardiovascular services is projected to increase significantly. The American Heart Association reports that between 2017 and 2020, 127.9 million U.S. adults had some form of cardiovascular disease.