Insights

March

• Winter 2019
  • Nelson D. Cary
  • Jeffery E. Smith
  Proposed Federal Reserve Banker Ban: A Chilling Effect on Banker Mobility?
  Bankers, and lenders in particular, have enjoyed relatively broad opportunities for mobility between institutions for decades.
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• Winter 2019
  • Christopher A. LaRocco
  Financial Service Representatives Added to the List of Mandatory Reporters under Ohio’s Elder Abuse Law
  Doctors, nurses, social workers, and first responders are the types of professionals thought of when it comes to reporting elder abuse.
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• Winter 2019
  • Jeffery E. Smith
  To Err Is Human: New Opportunities for Forgiveness in Ohio
  Being an Ohio-chartered bank or trust company, or institution-affiliated party of same (IAP), becomes a bit more comfortable with the addition of the new “bona fide error” protections of Ohio Sub. H.B. 489, effective March 20, 2019.
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• Winter 2019
  • Jeffery E. Smith
  Stock Buybacks for Banks and Bank Holding Companies
  Recent changes in stock prices, capital levels and loan demand for some institutions have created an increased interest in stock buybacks.
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• 3/8/2019
  Labor and Employment Alert: U.S. Department of Labor Proposes to Raise the Overtime-Exempt Salary Threshold to $35,000
  On March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) finally released its proposed rule to expand the overtime protections in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
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• 3/7/2019
  Client Alert: Sixth Circuit Holds in Nicole Gas that Baker Botts Does Not Apply to Contempt Sanctions
  The Sixth Circuit recently held that Baker Botts, L.L.P. v. ASARCO, L.L.C., 135 S. Ct. 2158 (2015) does not apply to contempt sanctions.
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• 3/7/2019
  • Nicholas M.J. Ray
  • David M. Aldous
  • Lauren M. Johnson
  • Andrew E. DeBord
  • Lindsay Doss Spillman
  • Hilary J. Houston
  • Steven L. Smiseck
  • Megan Savage Knox
  • Anthony L. Ehler
  • David A. Froling
  • Scott J. Ziance
  Time Is Running Out to File Appeals in Ohio and Other Jurisdictions
  Property taxes are frequently the largest non-productive expense incurred by property owners, and proactive management of this expense may result in increased profitability.
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• 3/1/2019
  • Ryan D. Elliott
  The WOTUS Saga Continues
  Ryan Elliott, an attorney in the Vorys Columbus office, recently wrote an article for the Oil & Gas Association’s OOGA Bulletin titled, “The WOTUS Saga Continues.”
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February

• 2/28/2019
  Online Notaries and Beyond: An Update on Ohio’s Notary Public Modernization Act
  Lisa Babish Forbes, a partner in the Vorys Cleveland office, authored an article in the January/February 2019 issue of the Probate Law Journal of Ohio titled, “Online Notaries and Beyond: An Update on Ohio’s Notary Public Modernization Act.”
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• 2/27/2019
  Labor and Employment Alert: OSHA Rescinds Key Portion of Its Electronic Injury Submission Rule
  OSHA recently issued a final rule eliminating the short-lived requirement for establishments with 250 or more employees to electronically submit information from OSHA Forms 300 and 301.
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• 2/20/2019
  • Lauren E. Sanders
  What’s Trending in Employment Law
  Andy Kaplan, a partner in the Cincinnati office, and Lauren Saunders, an associate in the Cincinnati office, co-authored an article for the Cincinnati Business Courier titled “What’s Trending in Employment Law.”
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• 2/19/2019
  Client Alert: The Federal Circuit Affirms Lower Court Ruling Defining Patent Eligibility
  The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit released a ruling earlier this month that affirmed a District Court decision that certain medical diagnostic claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,267,820 (the '820 patent) were invalid.
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• 2/18/2019
  Client Alert: Ohio’s New Cybersecurity Requirements on Insurers and Other Licensees Set to Take Effect in March
  Ohio recently added comprehensive cybersecurity requirements to its insurance laws through Substitute Senate Bill 273, which take effect on or about March 19, 2019.
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• 2/13/2019
  Client Alert: Embassy Healthcare v. Bell: Supreme Court of Ohio Decision Provides Greater Certainty for a Surviving Spouse on Decedent Spouse’s Medical Debt
  Is a surviving spouse responsible for her deceased spouse’s medical bills if the creditor did not properly submit a claim against his estate?
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• 2/12/2019
  Client Alert: Time to File Real Property Tax Complaints in Ohio for Tax Year 2018
  Every six years the State of Ohio requires counties to reappraise real estate.
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• 2/8/2019
  • Nathaniel Lampley, Jr.
  The Diversity Discussion: Big Law Partner Shares His Experiences to Help Change the Norm
  Nate Lampley, the managing partner of the Vorys Cincinnati office, authored an op-ed for Corporate Counsel titled “The Diversity Discussion: Big Law Partner Shares His Experiences to Help Change the Norm.”  T
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• 2/7/2019
  Immigration Alert: H-1B Visa Lottery (Fiscal Year 2020): Important Changes to the Application Process
  The U.S. DHS anticipates that the new procedures will result in granting more H-1B visas to beneficiaries with advanced degrees (U.S. master’s degree or higher), thus rewarding the “most-skilled and highest-paid” in support of the Buy American and Hire American Executive Order.  
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• 2/6/2019
  Oil and Gas Alert: Sixth Circuit Affirms Constitutionality of Ohio’s Statutory Unitization Procedures
  On February 4, 2019, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court decision upholding the constitutionality of Ohio’s statutory unitization procedures.
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• 2/6/2019
  Health Care Alert: HHS Aims to Reduce Prescription Drug Prices Through Proposed Changes to the Anti-Kickback Statute’s Safe Harbors; Comments Due April 8, 2019
  On February 6, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a proposed rule that would amend the “Discounts” safe harbor under the Anti-Kickback Statute and create two new safe harbors respectively protecting “Point-of-Sale Reductions in Price for Prescription Pharmaceutical Products” and “PBM Service Fees.”
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• 2/5/2019
  Labor and Employment Alert: EEO-1’s Filing Deadline Extended To May 2019 Due To Shutdown
  The EEOC recently announced that the filing deadline to submit the current EEO-1 has been extended to May 31, 2019.  This one-time extension for the EEO-1 was due to the “partial lapse in appropriations” to the EEOC during the government shutdown
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