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10.20.16

YouTube Adds Sponsored Content Notification Feature

To help influencers achieve compliance with the necessary disclosures about their relationships with advertisers, YouTube has unveiled a new tool to provide notice to viewers about sponsored content.


10.20.16

Defining and Resolving the Provider Data Dilemma

The healthcare system is undergoing massive transformation, including new insurance marketplaces, expanded public and commercial coverage, rapid digitalization and emerging value-based regulatory and payment reforms.


10.20.16

Third Circuit Reverses Hospital Merger Loss

On September 27, 2016, the Third Circuit handed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) a significant victory in its campaign against hospital consolidation, reversing a District Court decision that denied a preliminary injunction against the merger of Penn State Hershey Medical Center (Hershey) and ...


10.20.16

How Will AB 72 (and Similar Laws) Impact Provider/Payer Disputes?

Recently, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law “surprise medical bill legislation,” seeking to curb out-of-network medical bills. This law, designated AB 72, amends California’s Health and Safety Code to limit the ability of out-of-network physicians who provide ...


10.18.16

M&A Trends in Digital Media and Frontier Technologies

Once again we are very pleased to provide you with another issue of the Manatt Digital newsletter.


10.18.16

New Record Deal Reached in TCPA Settlement

In what could be the largest Telephone Consumer Protection Act settlement yet, a federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois signed off on a deal requiring three cruise marketing companies to pay up to $76 million to two classes of call recipients.


10.14.16

Manatt Attorneys Tapped for 38th BAA Marketing Law Conference

Linda Goldstein, Marc Roth and Richard Lawson are featured speakers at the Brand Activation Association’s upcoming 38th annual Marketing Law Conference.


10.14.16

EPA Taking First Actions to Restrict Existing Chemical Uses

On October 11, 2016, EPA announced the start of expedited rulemaking to restrict the existing uses of five widely used chemicals that have been identified as being toxic, persistent and/or bioaccumulative in the environment (PBTs).


10.13.16

TSCA Reform Will Fundamentally Change U.S. Chemical Regulation

Astonishingly, in an election year and at a time of unprecedented partisanship, this past June, Congress adopted significant reforms to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) with sweeping support from both sides of the aisle.


10.13.16

California's DBO Hits LendUp With Action, Fine

California's Department of Business Oversight (DBO) reached a $2.68 million settlement with LendUp recently, a deal based on the regulator's allegations that the firm charged illegal fees and committed other "widespread" violations of state law.