How to Handle an SEC Inspection

Every adviser will be examined at some point by the SEC’s examination staff. That is a given. Sometimes the inspection will be preceded by a letter or telephone call from an SEC staff member notifying the adviser of the date for the scheduled inspection. Other...

OCR Begins HIPAA Audits

Last month, the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that its contractor, KPMG, will be conducting 150 HIPAA compliance audits from November 2011 to December 2012. OCR is required to conduct HIPAA audits...

Insurance News

Fall/Winter 2011 In this Issue FDIC Continues to File Claims Against Failed Bank Directors and Officers and Other Professionals, and the D&O Coverage Cases Are Following Shortly BehindU.S. Insurance Regulations following Dodd-Frank Act by Joseph G. GrassoFrom the...

Whistleblower Bounties Under Dodd-Frank

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Act”) creates enormous financial incentives for employees and others to report potential corporate wrongdoing directly to the SEC or the Commodities Futures Trading Commission...