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CMS Releases Final Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan Marketing Guidelines

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 07.27.06

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released revised Medicare Advantage, MA-PD, Prescription Drug Plan and Medicare cost plan marketing guidelines on July 25, 2006.
We are reviewing the new guidelines for substantive changes from the previously released version.

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Client Alert | 5 min read | 08.26.26

D.C. Circuit Upholds Designation of PFOA and PFOS as CERCLA Hazardous Substances

In a significant and unanimous ruling, the D.C. Circuit upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) final rule designating perfluorooctanoic acid (“PFOA”) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (“PFOS”) as “hazardous substances” under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), denying the petitions of seven industry groups seeking to overturn that designation.[1] CERCLA, also known as the “Superfund Statute,” allows EPA to require potentially responsible parties to fund cleanup of hazardous substances....