News & Press Releases

This feature article discusses the top FDA-related issues that the medical device industry is keeping an eye on for the 2019 year. Among those top concerns are new regulations involving laboratory developed tests (LDTs), digital health apps and medical device cybersecurity, among others. Aaron Josephson, senior director at ML Strategies and a former senior policy advisor at FDA’s device center, is among the industry sources quoted.

This article in The Boston Globe looks at how a law – signed in August and which took effect in November – is impacting Boston’s start-up community. The specific law is the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and it requires foreign entities investing in U.S. companies in 27 “critical” industries to be properly documented with CFIUS at the risk of penalties.

This feature article takes an in-depth look at how law firms and their leadership teams are taking a look at their approach to origination credit. Mintz Managing Member Bob Bodian is prominently featured throughout the article. In the piece, Bob discusses creating goals for a new approach – fostering teamwork, putting clients first and affording younger attorneys the ability to take more ownership – and launching the new system back in 2015.

This feature story discusses how Medicaid’s unique federal-state structure is a significant challenge to recovering inappropriate payments to doctors by the states. This challenging process has led to approximately $2 billion in overpayments for the past eight years not being recovered. Mintz’s Ellyn Sternfield, a former director of the Oregon Department of Justice’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, provides commentary in the piece.

Member and Chair of Mintz’s Litigation Practice Scott Ford is among the local Boston sources providing commentary in this Law360 feature article on what trends and cases to watch in Massachusetts this year.