Economic credentialing: your money or your life!

The economic overhaul of health care in America is restructuring the business of medicine, and with it the relationship between physician and patient. Previously accustomed to thinking primarily about the best interests of each patient, the physician now finds this traditional loyalty in conflict with competing concerns, including those of government, business, and insurers who watch with alarm the relentless rise in their health care expenditures. And there are competing interests of hospitals, health maintenance organizations, and other provider-institutions who find their survival threatened by high-powered competition and increasingly stringent resource limits, and interests of other physicians and their patients whose health needs compete for limited health care dollars.     

How your website can be a friend or an enemy

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently affirmedthe decision of the TTAB in denying Reed's registration of itsmark ‘Lawyers.com’ as being generic.     

一起危险品多式联运货损纠纷案

通过对一起危险品多式联运货损纠纷案的评析,探讨了多式联运合同与多式联运经营人、货物所有权的转移与诉讼主体资格、危险货物运输特殊性等问题。     

一起货物运输保险代位求偿纠纷案

通过对一起货物运输保险代位求偿纠纷案的介绍与分析,认为对于保险人行使代位求偿权的诉讼,法院应当仅就造成保险事故的第三人与被保险人之间的法律关系进行审理,不应实质性审查保险合同关系.识别无船承运人应以双方签订的合同内容为据,而不能以合同名称为准.海上运输中货物毁损的风险何时转移,除了考察当事人对价格条件的约定外,还应注意双方是否以行为方式修改了该价格条件.     

Protecting your confidential information

DATA PROTECTION There are two sides to the issue of Data Protection namely:

• •⊎ Protection of Company Information; and
• •⊎ Protection of Personal Information.

The proliferation of computers within government, business and the public generally has provided certain individuals with enormous potential power over the people and the information gathered in the many databases in existence throughout the world. The cross matching capabilities of these systems at terrific speeds has given rise to genuine concerns as to the purposes to which this information will be put and the possible abuses.In Australia (unlike the US) there is not constitutional protection of privacy and the only remedy available to either companies or individuals is via the common law for breach of confidence or the unauthorised disclosure of a trade secret.In this article I intend to raise some of the issues faced by both the corporation attempting to restrict access and abuse of confidential information together with the protection of individual privacy in the face of increased central data collection.     

以眼为证

眼球反射图像 如果我们盯着别人的眼睛看,我们会在他们的眼睛里看到自己的影像以及周围的环境。英国格拉斯哥大学的电子图像分析专家罗布·詹金斯认为人们的这一常识可以用于刑事案件的侦破。在绑架、恐怖袭击等案件中,通过被困受害者眼睛中的图像,刑侦人员可以发现藏匿的犯罪嫌疑人的影像,