Glen Riddle Lima Merger & Acquisition Lawyer, Pennsylvania

Hospitals generally store patient records in six forms including, paper, microfilm, and electronic. "Electronic" records are either original computer generated charts or optical image files of charts scanned by hospital personnel and saved on hospital computers. ...

... Should not this Court clarify the doctrine of sentencing merger, and its implications under constitutional double jeopardy analysis, under circumstances where the exact same set of facts satisfies the elements of two different offenses? ... 9765. Merger of sentences. ...

... Under the de facto merger doctrine, when a transaction cast as an acquisition or sale of assets has the economic effect of a merger, a court may treat it as a merger for purposes of successor liability even if it does not meet the statutory requirements for a merger. ...