In a unanimous decision, the California Supreme Court on May 29 reversed a class action verdict for a class which was based on a flawed statistical model to determine liability and damages. Duran v. U ...

In a September 28, 2018 Change Request to Medicare’s Program Integrity Manual (“PIM”), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) updated its instructions to Medicare contractors regarding ...

here is very good news for CPAs whose clients face the often burdensome administrative costs of claiming allowable expense deductions for meals and entertainment (M&E)—the IRS now will permit the use ...

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Benjamin McCoy of Fox Rothschild, left, and Zac Arbitman of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, right. There is little dispute that the False Claims Act (FCA) is among the most potent weapons for fighting ...

Publicly held companies, or private companies that apply for credit, must have routine audits of financial transactions conducted. Outside agencies, not affiliated with the company, perform these ...

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It's not feasible to contact every member of the population, so only a sample, or a subset, of that population is included when conducting statistical research. The assumption is that the sample is ...

The past decade has seen a raft of efforts to encourage robust, credible research. Some focus on changing incentives, for example by modifying promotion and publication criteria to favour open science ...