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The American Lawyer

Greenberg Traurig Expands Health Care Practice With Brownstein Hyatt Team

While Erin Eiselein and Anna-Liisa Mullis are joining aboard as shareholders after over six years at Brownstein Hyatt, Ishra Solieman is joining as counsel. The team expands the firm's health care and FDA practice out of Denver and Phoenix.
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New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Supreme Court Considers Arguments Over $26M Jury Verdict Against Valley Hospital

"I would just ask the court to take a step back, and look at what happened in this case, not as allegations, but what the jury heard and obviously agreed with," Peter G. Verniero of Sills Cummis & Gross said. "This is a semipublic institution that treated these doctors in a way that is unfair. That is clear from the jury's finding. And if this court were to reverse an unpublished opinion to somehow make a point on some technicality, it would be sending an awful message to all the parties in this case, to jurors, and to trial courts."
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Patient Brokering Act Gets First Ruling on Appeal

"This is clearly a case of first impression," said appellee attorney Bruce A. Zimet.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

UnitedHealth Targeted in New Lawsuit Alleging Underpayment of Out-of-Network ER Doctors

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Not 'Much Else We Could Do': Payout From $40M Bibb County Verdict Uncertain as Judge Mulls Apportionment

If that judgment doesn't fall in the plaintiff's favor, it will create a possible avenue for them to appeal.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

OIG Issues Favorable Opinion for Proposal to Pay Bonuses to Employed Physicians Based on Net Profits

The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued Advisory Opinion No. 23-07 (opinion) on Oct. 10 regarding a "requestor's" proposal to pay bonuses to its employed physicians based on net profits derived from certain procedures performed by the physicians (the proposed arrangement).
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

How the Barnes Law Group Secured a $10M Med Mal Verdict in Fulton County

According to plaintiff's counsel Mark Meliski, the defense's strategy posed one of the greatest challenges throughout the litigation process—especially once their codefendant admitted negligence a couple of weeks before trial.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

DENIED: Judge Rejects Texas Bid to Cut Relators Out of $236M Medicaid Settlement

Justice Theofanis said the state relied on the fallacious contention that the petitioners sued the state, rather than Xerox. She emphasized that should she agree with the state then the state could not have intervened at all.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

More on Physician or Hospital Liability for Harm to Third Persons

Under Pennsylvania law, when a physician voluntarily undertakes to act within the doctor-patient relationship for the protection of a nonpatient third party, the physician assumes a corresponding duty of reasonable care to any third party who is within the orbit of harm.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Arnold & Porter Picks Up Another Foley Hoag Partner to Grow New Boston Office

As the Boston area continues to be a booming hub for the biotechnology industry, more Am Law 100 firms have set up shop this year and grown their life sciences bench in the region.
3 minute read

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