Author: Allison M. Surcouf
Allison has extensive experience representing aviation and aerospace companies, including foreign and domestic air carriers, as well as aircraft and component part manufacturers, in civil litigation and arbitration involving wrongful…
The Northern District of Texas recently added to a growing body of case law in holding that a crew’s imperfect response to a medical emergency on board an aircraft does…
For more than a decade, the liability insurance market has struggled to comply with mandatory Medicare reporting laws, commonly referred to as Section 111, with trepidation as to when the…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has finally approved lead-only reporting on behalf of all insurers on a subscription policy. In an email from the Division of Medicare…
In Wilson v. Caribbean Airlines Ltd., the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York recently held that the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 (the “ADA”) preempts and…
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization designated the outbreak of COVID-19, also known as Coronavirus, as a pandemic. As communities implement measures to prevent the spread of the…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) as to the regulations that will govern enforcement of the Medicare reporting obligations pursuant…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is expected finally to begin enforcing the Medicare reporting obligations pursuant to Section 111 of the Medicare and Medicaid SCHIP Extension Act…
Earlier this month, the New York Supreme Court (Monroe County) added to a growing list of decisions granting foreign defendants’ motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction since the…
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has published the much-anticipated final rule regarding small, i.e., less than 55 pounds, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), to be codified at 14 C.F.R. Part 107.…
This week provided another development in the evolving world of drone regulation. The FAA published an Interim Final Rule1 requiring that owners of small drones (between 0.55 and 55 pounds…