BOSTON, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Wal-Mart has agreed to pay $40 million to as many as 87,500 of its current and former employees in Massachusetts in what is the largest wage-and-hour class action settlement in the state's history.
Some hospitals are suing Massachusetts' Medicaid program for underpaying. Idaho health agencies are broadening their own lawsuit against the state on Medicaid payment rules. Boston Herald: "Six community hospitals will formally file a lawsuit against the state today, ratcheting up a dispute between the hospitals and the state agency that pays for some of the care they provide...
The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer about 30 research fellowships for the academic year 2010-2011, including at least two long-term research fellowships made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Society also offers Short-Term Fellowships, and participates in the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. For more information about the Society's research
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed legislation yesterday that will regulate MMA. View full size photo » MMA Mania has the story: Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (yesterday) signed a bill into law that regulates mixed martial arts in the "Bay State," paving the way for the sport's top brand, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), and other promotions to host events...
In this edition of the Legal ToolKit host Dean Whalen, General Counsel for Catuogno Court Reporting and Sten-Tel Transcription Services will call on the experts to talk more about the Massachusetts Data Breach Notification Law: 201CMR 17.00 and complying by March 1, 2010. In the first segment, Dean welcomes Charlie Christianson, President of Peritus Security [...]
NEW YORK, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon FiOS customers are getting new interactive features with their FiOS TV in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon FiOS customers are getting new interactive features with their FiOS TV in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
News outlets report on a proposal in Massachusetts to require colleges and universities to insure students, an insurer in Massachusetts that is expected to try to alter the "fee for service" model and a plan in Hawaii to opt out of the national health care overhaul. The Associated Press/Boston Globe: "Lawmakers are weighing a bill to require every full and part-time college...
The focus of the legal dispute over the federal refusal to recognize same-sex unions has shifted from California to Massachusetts, where the courts will tackle the question of whether Congress must treat all state-approved marriages equally. On one side are...
The Philadelphia Inquirer offers this report beginning: "A Democratic state lawmaker has introduced a bill that would force Republican Gov.-elect Christopher J. Christie to select a Democrat to replace New Jersey's U.S. senators - both of them Democrats - if...
According to WEC: (Boston) – Massachusetts has become the 42nd state in the country to bring regulated mixed martial arts (MMA) competitions, including Ultimate Fighting® Championship® (UFC®) events, to thousands of Bay State fans. The Massachusetts Legislature recently passed a bill that would allow the Department of Public Safety to oversee regulation of the popular...
... a tremendous amount that goes on in a patient’s daily life,” says Frank Moss , director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, an emerging-technologies research group that helped create one disease-related networking site, and a founder of the cancer drug company Infinity Pharmaceuticals. “They’re trying off-label drugs, different diets, different exercise, different lifestyles....