Our Fourth of July was made much brighter with a big non-compete win for a client.Our client, a successful recruiter (think head-hunter) in SW Virginia, had been sued last spring, for over $300,000 by her prior employer.It was alleged that she breached her contract when she started her own recruiting…
read moreI read a great article in the Wallstreet Journal this morning by LUCETTE LAGNADOShe writes about a $300,000 grant that has jump-started a new trend in elder care. “In the spring of 2001, Bill Thomas, dressed in his usual sweat shirt and Birkenstock sandals, entered the buttoned-down halls of the…
read moreI love Williamsburg – and am sad that the residents of James City County are plagued by the same problems that other localities in Virginia are…. poor nursing home care.Records reflect 83 year old woman had no skin problems – but family can tell by looking at her, that most…
read moreI read in the Wall Street Journal today, that the FDA said it will add warnings to the labels of older anti-psychotic drugs, regarding dangers of drug use for persons with dementia.These meds haven’t been FDA approved for folks with dementia, but were being prescribed by physicians all over the…
read moreWe may not have known him personally, but we respected him – and his death reminds us of many truths. For example, life is short. The second, is that some medical conditions can be treated and others can’t.We have heard he had a stress test in April and was receiving…
read moreI read an article today about a doctor that lost his license in one state – then to go to another state, and assume the name, license and practice info of another doctor. Did he get caught? Yes. Did he got to jail? Yes. But what happened to his patients?Read…
read moreWhen you are asked to sign a non-compete (or flip side if you ask your staff to sign a non-compete) consider what state you want to govern the contract. I have had folks call me from Washington State with contracts that had Virginia Choice of law provisions, and Virginia employees…
read moreWe would be ashamed if our local hospitals ran ads with “specials / discounts / or “coupons,” wouldn’t we? Open the paper and you see a coupon, for “1 cardio-cath, get the angioplasty free” – or, half off mammograms until Labor day… Perhaps the ads would reminded us that hospitals…
read moreMontVue Nursing Home has denied culpability in its legal response to a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit filed against it last month.“Shenandoah resident Joyce Smith sued MontVue’s parent company Shenandoah Valley Care Inc. after her mother, Joyce Earline Bigelow, a former patient at MontVue, died of complications from a fall…
read moreHere is a good economic and business debate for you.Do non-competes hinder progress, invention, discovery of new technologies?What region in the United States is known for technological developments, creativity, and an economy based on both? Silicon Valley in California, of course. And what state has a public policy (as well…
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