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Biography

Joe advises a wide range of clients on business planning, regulatory compliance, income tax, and other legal and financial matters. He represents clients regularly in business disputes and in regulatory and tax proceedings.

 

Joe's Relevant Experience

General Business & Tax Planning

Joe structures closely held corporations, limited liability companies classified as partnerships for income tax purposes, and other business entities. He advises their owners and managers on corporate governance issues, ย buy-sell arrangements, fiduciary duty and control succession questions, and income tax planning.

Tax Disputes

Joe has represented numerous clients before the Kentucky Department of Revenue and the Kentucky courts in income, sales and use, license, and other Kentucky tax matters and before the Internal Revenue Service in audits and appeals.

Joeย served as tax counsel to Rohm and Haas Company in its successful Kentucky sales and use tax case involving the exemption for energy costs exceeding 3% of the manufacturerโ€™s cost of production,ย Department of Revenue v. Rohm and Haas Company,ย Case No. 2008 CA-000022, decided by the Court of Appeals 2/6/2009, unpublished, Revenue Departmentโ€™s motion for disc. rev. denied by the Supreme Court of Kentucky 1/13/10, and in Rohm and Haas Companyโ€™s successful Kentucky โ€œdock salesโ€ case,ย Revenue Cabinet v. Rohm and Haasย Kentucky,ย 929 S.W.2d 741 (Ky.App. 1996).

Heย served as tax counsel to Dupont Performance Elastomers, L.L.C. in its successful Kentucky sales and use tax case involving Kentuckyโ€™s enterprise zone exemption,ย Department of Revenue v. Dupont Performance Elastomers, L.L.C.,ย Case No. 2007 CA-000685, decided by the Court of Appeals 3/21/08., unpublished.

He provided the core tax planning and worked with other members of a Frost Brown Todd litigation team in another manufacturerโ€™s successful effort to obtain credit for local taxes in excess of the amount owed where there existed no statutory authority for a credit or refund.ย Inland Container Corp. v.ย MasonCounty Bd. of Ed., 6 S.W.3d 374 (Ky. 1999).

Health Care

Joeย advises physician practices, taxable and tax-exempt hospitals, and other health care companiesย regarding acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, federal and state tax issues, and fiduciary duty, corporate governance, non-compete, and compliance matters.ย  He develops compliance plans for hospitals, physician practices, DME companies, and other health care providers, physician recruitment plans, medical director arrangements, provider joint marketing arrangements, and multiple provider network plans.

Joeย has prepared opinions on federal and state anti-kickback and physician self-referral (Stark Law) matters, the โ€œintermediate sanctionsโ€ provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and antitrust issues applicable to health care providers,ย  the corporate practice of medicine doctrine, certificate of need and licensing rules, public payer reimbursement rules, and a variety other legal standards applicable to health care providers. His work includes the defense of qui tam litigation filed under the Federal False Claims Act and the negotiation of settlements with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Heย represents Kentucky health care providers in certificate of need and licensing matters. He represented a Kentucky tax-exempt health care provider in obtaining a determination that it did not need a certificate of need to add additional cardiac catheterization laboratories.ย Interim Office of Health Planning and Certification v. Jewish Hospital Healthcare Services, Inc., 932 S.W.2d 398 (Ky.App. 1996).

Insurance Regulation

Joe represents the largest workersโ€™ compensation self-insurance group providing coverage in Kentucky, with over 5,500 employer members. He has represented Kentuckyโ€™s principal statutory insurance plans including the Kentucky FAIR Plan, the residual market mechanism for commercial and dwelling fire coverage, Homeowners coverage, and farm coverage,ย  the Kentucky Automobile Insurance Plan, the Kentucky Assigned Claims Plan, and the Kentucky Insurance Guaranty Association.

He represented an association of workersโ€™ compensation insurers active in Kentucky and Kentucky self-insured employers in their successful effort to obtain a declaration that the Kentucky General Assemblyโ€™s taking of funds they had paid to prefund special injury fund liabilities was unconstitutional. Thompsonย v. Kentucky Reinsurance Association,ย 710 S.W.2d 854 (Ky. 1986).

He represented the Kentucky FAIR Plan in its successful effort to collect substantial assessments which the Plan had assessed against a national insurance organization over its constitutional objections.ย Stephensv.ย State Farm Mutual Auto. Ins. Co.,ย 894 S.W.2d 624 (Ky. 1995).

Other Info About Joe

Education

Law School

University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, J.D., 1976
Winner, Moot Court Competition, Oral Advocacy, 1974
Team Winner, Mock Trial Competition with Columbia Law School, 1975
Distinguished Law Alumni Award, 1999

Undergraduate School

Harvard University, B.A., 1972,ย summa cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa

Bar Memberships

Joe is licensed to practice in the following state(s):

Kentucky, 1976

Recognition

Local & National Recognition

AVยฎ Rated,ย Martindale-Hubbellยฎ

The Best Lawyers in Americaยฎ, Health Care Law, 2006-2022

Selected to Kentucky Super Lawyersยฎ, Business/Corporate, 2007-2018

Distinguished Law Alumni Award, 1999

Winner, Moot Court Competition, Oral Advocacy, 1974

Professional Affiliations

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

American Bar Association

Kentucky Bar Association

Louisville Bar Association

Business Tax, and Health Law Sections, American, Kentucky, and Louisville Bar Associations

American Health Lawyers Association, Member

Civic Activities

Civic & Charitable Organizations

Greater Louisville Health Enterprises Network, Founding Member ofย  Board of Directors and Executive Committee

University of Louisville Board of Overseers, Current Member and Past Chairman; Past Co-Chair of Visiting Committee to U of L Primary Care Center; Past Chair, Visiting Committee to School of Law; Past Chair, Visiting Committee to University Libraries

University of Louisville Law Alumni Foundation, Past Chairman

Transit Authority of River City, Past Member, Board of Directors

City of Louisville, Past Service as Cityโ€™s Director of Public Information andย Special Assistant to the Mayor

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