BW INSIGHTS

Surrogacy Contracts Are Enforceable in Iowa

By BrownWinick | 03.02.2018
In a highly-anticipated ruling, the Iowa Supreme Court today ruled that gestational surrogacy contracts are enforceable in Iowa. The case involved a couple who were unable to conceive a child together. They entered an agreement with another couple, whereby the wife agreed to carry a child for the intended parents in exchange for compensation for... Read More

Iowa's State Health Facilities Council Approves Over $6 Million of New Projects

By BrownWinick | 02.23.2018
The State Health Facilities Council (the “Council”) met on February 21, 2018, and granted a certificate of need (“CON”) to each of the following projects by a vote of 4-0: The purchase of a 3.0 Tesla MRI by the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics at a cost of $2,681,912. The purchase of a PET/CT system by the University of Iowa Hospitals and... Read More

Iowa Medicaid Providers Subject to Increased Scrutiny for Medicaid Overpayments

By BrownWinick | 02.20.2018
On January 23, 2018, the Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS) announced that it will begin using statistical sampling to determine whether Iowa Medicaid providers have received overpayments from Iowa Medicaid Enterprise (IME), including from the Managed Care Organizations (MCOs), and the Iowa Dental Wellness Plan. Pursuant to Informational... Read More

Are You Ready if a Sexual Harassment Scandal Hits Your Business? - Part II

By Michael Dee | 12.20.2017
Does your business have a handle on its policy enforcement? As outlined in our earlier post, charges of sexual harassment have always posed the potential for very serious liability. Historically, however, sexual harassment has been relatively difficult to prove from the legal perspective. That tide is turning, however, as technology and social... Read More

Are You Ready if a Sexual Harassment Scandal Hits Your Business?

By Michael Dee | 12.07.2017
Does your business have the basics covered? For the past several months, we have been inundated with daily news about entertainers, media personalities, and politicians being accused of sexual harassment and worse. Victims of such conduct are no longer remaining silent – and rightfully so. The era of responding to an employee’s allegation of... Read More

Mobile Technology

By Danielle Smid | 11.17.2017
Mobile technology continues to become more and more a part of our daily lives. While experts debate what this means in the context of personal lives and family lives, there’s no question it also introduces some unique issues to the workplace. Employers should consider potential legal implications of technology in the workplace with respect to... Read More

Iowa's Next Energy Frontier - Microgrids

By Haley Van Loon | 10.19.2017
Living in Iowa, you have likely driven within sight of a wind turbine farm with its tubular towers sprouting up hundreds of feet above the local farmer’s crops, or noticed angled solar panels in tight groupings along some shadow-free earth or perched on the edge of a new building’s rooftop. After such an observation, did you pause to wonder how... Read More

Should You Invest Your I.R.A. in Friends, Family or Charitable Work?

By BrownWinick | 10.10.2017
BrownWinick tax attorney William Brown was featured in The New York Times on Friday, October 6, 2017. The article, "Should You Invest Your I.R.A. in Friends, Family or Charitable Work?" discusses self-directed I.R.A.'s, which allows investments in "alternative assets" and not just traditional stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Read More

Iowa Certificate of Need Law Under Constitutional Attack

By BrownWinick | 09.21.2017
Iowa has become the latest battleground in a nationwide effort to challenge state “certificate of need” laws. Since 1977, Iowa’s certificate of need (“CON”) law has required approval for any “new or changed institutional health service.” The Iowa General Assembly enacted the CON law to avoid unnecessary duplication of healthcare services and to... Read More

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