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Get the 4-1-1 on your 1099s: 5th and 7th Circuits Permit Paying Volume-Based Compensation to Independent Sales Agents

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Two recent cases from the Fifth and Seventh Circuits, however, support the legality of these arrangements in the absence of the government proving certain circumstances. Mallory , 988 F.3d 3d 730 (4th Cir. The case law on commission-based marketing agentsincluding the Sorensen decisionfollow in a similar vein.

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Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions about the Previous Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions about Charging for Investigational Drugs

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Two of the new questions added in the Draft Guidance (Q22 and Q23) address the fact that monitoring and other administrative “startup” costs, and manufacturing costs are often higher in the first year compared to subsequent years. These new Q & As explain that some sponsors may amortize costs.

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The MAHA Assessment’s Implications: Drugs (Part One)

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Ordinarily, a public health initiative of such magnitude would have been governed by a transparent multi-step process featuring public meetings and drawing on external scientific expertise. In other words, as you read this, the Assessments findings and recommendations are getting baked into federal government policy, for better or worse.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

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So if you look at government websites about heat for example, it’s got a line of buttons across the top with affected populations, outdoor workers, athletes and older people are in there. But Ruth, I was wondering too, and you invited us to ask each other questions, so my golly I’m going to do it.

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Navigating Executive Orders and DOJ Memos That Threaten Criminal Prosecution

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Below, we highlight some of the challenges we would see in the governments attempt to pursue these cases. Second, absent some kind of contractual relationship between a provider and a manufacturer, a provider is generally immune from misbranding if the provider is not also selling a regulated product. Driehaus , 573 U.S.