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What is a HIPAA Violation?

HIPAA Journal

According to the most recent update, the HHS has received almost 300,000 complaints since the compliance date of the Privacy Rule (April 2003). Category 1 – Unaware of the HIPAA violation and by exercising reasonable due diligence would not have known HIPAA rules had been violated.

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Terrorist (Litigation) Threats

Drug & Device Law

In the aftermath of the 2003 Iraq War, the government of Iraq – the government that the United States installed – allegedly allowed the Ministry of Health to be run by terrorists (the “Jaysh al-Mahdi”). 3d 194 (D.D.C. 2020), held that the plaintiff’s claims of both “direct” and “aiding and abetting” JASTA liability were simply implausible.