Medicare Part A covers skilled nursing home benefits (up to 100 days) but only after the beneficiary has been admitted to a hospital for three days. Medicare and Hospitals have been relegating people to “observation” status for days or sometimes even weeks, rather than actually admitting the patient. The outcome of this is that Medicare will not cover a nursing home…
Ohio Law Allows an Employer to Sue an Errant Employee In The Absence of an Employment Agreement Some business owners are under the false impression that if they do not have a written employment agreement with an employee, replete with non-compete, non-solicitation or other like clauses, they have no recourse to stop or demand damages from an errant employee. As…
OBTAINING RESTRAINING ORDERS AND INJUNCTIONS IN CIVIL BUSINESS LITIGATION In many civil disputes, it is simply not enough for a party to file a Complaint against another party and await a trial, a year or more later, in the hopes of obtaining relief. When faced with an immediate, irreparable harm, a plaintiff’s remedy is to file a motion for a…
Arbitration has been touted as a cure all for businesses over the years. As part of the arbitration push, the business community has been urged to add clauses into contracts mandating the arbitration of all or specific disputes. Having taken the trouble to add arbitration clauses into their contracts, it is concerning to occasionally see the clauses ignored by businesses…
