Electronic Signatures

As you begin to transact more business electronically, consider the often boilerplate notice provision that you are using in your contracts.  For every contract that you electronic signature, there may be many contract notices that you must deliver (pricing, terms, quantity, product delivery, specification, addendum, breach notices and changes).

The following article, written by Jon Neidiz, a partner in Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough’s Atlanta office and co-leader of the Firm’s Information Management Practice, is a useful short summary for those considering HIPAA privacy issues in the context of email – and RMail’s email encryption service. Key to using email encryption for compliance with […]

The following best practices guide prepared by Wolters Kluwer presents a useful map of items to consider when deploying an electronic signature initiative. The RPost services that map to the processes noted in the white paper are:

Electronic Signatures Documents have the Same Legal Strength of Wet Ink Signatures. E-business transactions – Did you know that if executed properly from beginning to end they can reduce all types of risk and make e-contracts more enforceable than paper processes. However, simply complying with the ten-year old ESIGN Act that affords electronically-signed documents the same legal […]

Electronic Transactions Would Be Afforded the Same Validity and Legality as Paper Transactions Background: Enactment of electronic laws – the Electronic Signatures in global commerce Act (ESIGN, the federal statute) and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA – adopted by forty-six states) are basically similar and were designed to facilitate electronic transactions consistent with other applicable […]

Registered Receipt™ Record Turning the Electronic Signature into A Signed Contract with High Evidential and Legal Weight Here’s a new testimonial from another happy RPost customer, Bob Schackner, Director of Competitive Edge Services at Renaissance Alliance Group.

This latest RSign electronic signature upgrade delivers all the elements necessary for upholding legal contracts in today’s automated technology environments with three crucial, specific elements:

Three Electronic Signature Service Areas – When to Use “Sending for Signature”, “Form sign”, “Sender Signs” The main RSign electronic signature service upgrade runs on RSign’s Registered Email™ technology platform and is unique in that it permits senders to send for signature and have electronic signing capabilities anywhere – from their mobile device, browser-based email […]

We have been asked to lay out what specifically is new with regards to the August 20 electronic signature upgrade. This provides a quick summary:

Importance of HIPAA Compliant for Electronic Signatures in Standardizing Electronic Health Care Transactions. RE: Required Patient and Beneficiary Authorizations, Notices and Acknowledgments