Compliance

Husch Blackwell’s Avi Meyerstein discusses the impact COVID-19 may have on OSHA investigations. Are we looking at increased enforcement? Deregulation? New regulation? Time will tell. All bets are off as regulatory agencies are tugged in every direction in this pandemic world. Normally, an election year probably would not have seen particularly aggressive enforcement or rulemaking. For a while, COVID-19 health...

Compliance audits and financial audits are different animals calling for different skill sets. Level 2 Legal’s Leigh Vickery explains why your organization might not want to choose a Big Four firm. Compliance is a top concern in the business world and an area of increasing concern for corporate board members, executives and legal departments. While privacy is certainly not the...

How recently has your organization evaluated its guardrails to protect against conflicts of interest? Most companies need work in this area. Jeff Kaplan and Rebecca Walker cover how to conduct a conflict of interest assessment. Many compliance and ethics (C&E) program assessments are of what might be considered a general scope – meaning they are not focused on a particular...

SAI Global unveils key data from its first Ethics & Compliance Report  Seeking to identify and examine the E&C program goals organizations aspire to achieve -- and what's stopping them from doing so -- SAI Global has launched an independent research initiative. The first annual Ethics & Compliance Report represents SAI's initial research findings from its 2020 Ethics and Compliance Benchmark...

The best training engages participants and leaves them with an understanding of how to apply the material in the real world. Jim Nortz discusses the critical role training plays in helping employees avoid the health care compliance bear traps. I’ll never forget the look on my colleagues’ faces as they trudged into the first eight-hour “train-the-trainer” sales and marketing code...

As COVID-19 shifts the risk and compliance landscape for businesses, Deloitte’s Rob Biskup comments on the changing environment and offers guidance for CCOs as they strive to move forward It can be said that when you strip the bark off a tree, it tends to expose the decay — and this metaphor may be particularly apt in the post-COVID-19 pandemic world that Chief...

COVID-19 is creating a gray area between legitimate collaboration and anticompetitive collusion. (Not all information exchanges point to price-fixing.) Morrison Foerster’s David Cross and Margaret Webb explain the impact this is having on lawful collaboration. Collaboration among businesses, including competitors, is critically important to help address the global pandemic. The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) and the Federal Trade...

More often than not, companies stumble into one or more of the health care compliance bear traps out of ignorance rather than malfeasance. Jim Nortz discusses the key role sales and marketing codes of conduct can play in preventing noncompliance. “Papa God and the Monkey” was one of my kids’ favorite stories when they were little. In it, a woman...

COVID-19 has created incredible technology and compliance challenges for many companies. Professor Tom C.W. Lin explains how smartly integrating compliance and IT functions can help businesses better confront the pandemic's impact.  The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted businesses in unforeseen and unimaginable ways. As businesses navigate the changing terrain of life during and after a global pandemic in the coming...

COVID-19 has impacted virtually every aspect of our lives. Compliance pros may be wondering whether and how corporate compliance will ultimately be affected. Mark Delgado, Mitratech’s Managing Director of GRC, offers insights into how companies can meet compliance mandates as they emerge from COVID lockdowns. Once the planet has passed beyond the uncertainties of this outbreak, when the business world...

Organizations are confronting challenges they have never faced before as the recovery from COVID-19 begins. Squire Patton Boggs’ Laura Lawless and Dan Pasternak share a compliance checklist to guide businesses as operations resume. As states begin the process of gradually lifting COVID-19-related “stay-at-home” orders, employers face the unprecedented challenge of restarting their businesses after prolonged closure or after suddenly adopting...

Jim Nortz continues a six-part series discussing a number of regulatory “bear traps” in the health care industry with a discussion on the importance of effective internal controls in preventing fraud. Bob was a good guy. He was a trusted friend and colleague earning a healthy salary serving as CFO at a multinational corporation. I worked with Bob on several...