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  • United States ex rel. O'Bier v. TidalHealth Nanticoke, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-05-26
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John D. McLaughlin, Jr., Ferry Joseph, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Michael J. Khouri, Khouri Law Firm, APC, Ir-vine, CA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Brian J. McLaughlin, Katherine Randolph Fry, Offit Kurman, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jennifer J. Coyne, Todd Reinecker, Miles & Stockbridge P.C., Baltimore, MD; Richard A. Robinson, Burr & Forman LLP, Wilming-ton, DE James A. Hoover, Burr & Forman LLP, Birmingham, AL; Martin S. Himeles, Jr., Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, Baltimore, MD; Thomas G. Macauley, Macauley LLC, Wilmington, DE; Daniel A. Griffith, Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69409

    The court dismissed a complaint with prejudice because it failed to allege sufficient facts to support a cause of action under the federal False Claims Act with regard to an unlawful referral scheme.

  • Gala v. Bullock

    Publication Date: 2021-04-14
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin A. Schwartz, Gwendolyn M. Osborn-Gustavson, Schwartz & Schwartz, Dover, DE for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia A. Davis, Deputy State Solicitor, Dover, DE for appellees.
    Case Number: D69360

    Medical board did not violate due process by deliberating disciplinary charges in executive session, and patient testimony that doctor provided prescriptions in exchange for sexual favors provided sufficient evidence to revoke licensure.

  • Duross v. Connections Cmty. Support Programs, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-04-07
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald G. Poliquin, The Poliquin Firm, LLC, Dover, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Dana Spring Monzo, Kelly E. Rowe, White and Williams LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69350

    Inmate adequately pled §1983 claim for failure to render treatment by alleging defendants withheld medication that suppressed symptoms of inmate's ulcerative colitis and then subsequently denied treatment for flare-ups of symptoms.

  • Palmer v. Christiana Care Health Serv., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-10
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Butler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy E. Lengkeek, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Richard Galperin, Joshua Meyeroff, Ryan T. Keating, Phillip M. Casale, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE; Dawn C. Doherty, Michael F. Duggan, Joseph E. Brenner, Marks, O’Neill, O’Brien, Doherty & Kelly, P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69323

    Plaintiff in this medical malpractice case was not entitled to peer review documents regarding the outcome of a specific medical procedure, but the court permitted limited discovery involving a defendant facility's credentialing of a doctor.

  • GI Assoc. of Delaware, P.A. v. Anderson

    Publication Date: 2021-03-03
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Vaughn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy E. Lengkeek, Natalie Wolf, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Bradley J. Goewert, Lorenza A. Wolhar, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69313

    The Delaware Supreme Court rejected the continuous negligent medical treatment doctrine in this case, and remanded for factual findings involving the statute of limitations.

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  • Abernathy v. Brandywine Urology Consultants, P.A.

    Publication Date: 2021-02-03
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary M. Klinger, Mason Lietz & Klinger LLP, Chicago, IL; Gary E. Mason, David K. Lietz, Mason Lietz & Klinger LLP, Washington, DC; Jared T. Green, Seitz, Van Ogtrop & Green, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: William E. Manning, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Wilmington, DE; Turner A. Broughton, Brendan D. O’Toole, Amanda Bird, Williams Mullen, Richmond, VA for defendant.
    Case Number: D69278

    Patients lacked standing to bring suit against their medical practice to recover compensation for a ransomware attack and data breach the practice had suffered where plaintiffs failed to allege their personal or financial information had been misused or there was a concrete, imminent threat of misuse.

  • LPPAS Representative, LLC v. ATH Holding Co., LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-01-13
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew P. Denn, Kelly L. Freund, DLA Piper LLP, Wilmington, DE; A. Thompson Bayliss, E. Wade Houston, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Kevin M. Coen, Sara Toscano, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Glenn M. Kurtz, White & Case LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: D69256

    Indemnification claims could not "relate back" to earlier where parties' contract required claims to be submitted prior to automatic release of escrow funds, but ambiguity as to whether claim met contractual materiality standard precluded judgment on the pleadings or summary judgment.

  • In re: Hosp. Acquisition LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-01-06
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Shannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: M. Blake Cleary, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Abid Qureshi, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, New York, NY for debtors.
    for defendant: Donald J. Detweiler, Troutman Pepper, Wilmington, DE; James P. Muenker, Neligan, LLP, Dallas, TX for movant.
    Case Number: D69248

    Lump sum adjustment from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services received by debtors constituted a "settlement" and therefore qualified as a purchased asset that debtors were required to turn over under the terms of the parties' asset purchase agreement.

  • In re: DSI Renal Holdings, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-12-16
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Owens
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: D69224

    While one individual defendant owed fiduciary duties to debtors, trustee's adversary proceeding against other defendants failed where trustee presented no evidence those defendants had knowledge of their participation in an alleged transaction to fraudulently withdraw assets from debtors.

  • First State Orthopaedics, P.A. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2020-12-09
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Carpenter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John S. Spadaro, John Sheehan Spadaro, LLC, Smyrna, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kevin J. Connors, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, Wilmington, DE; Tiffany Powers, Andrew Hatchett, Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, GA for defendants.
    Case Number: D69214

    Motion for leave to amend class claim denied where proposed relief sought had already been ordered by the court.