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Daily Report Online

The Strategy Behind a $6.5M Record Verdict in Northwest Georgia

Plaintiff counsel said their client would have settled for the insurer's policy limit, but the amount offered wouldn't cover her medical expenses.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ga. Can Resume Enforcing Ban on Hormone Replacement Therapy for Transgender Youth, Judge Says

Attorneys for the state had asked Judge Sarah Geraghty to vacate the preliminary injunction in light of the Alabama decision.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

25 and Counting: Class Actions Follow HCA Healthcare Data Breach Impacting 11M Patients

"We've got about another half dozen to dozen [clients considering filing suit] and have obviously looked at a larger number," said Gerard Stranch IV, who represents up to five patients filing suits so far. "The 25 cases on file now are all class actions, and the court in Nashville has already consolidated all the cases in the [U.S. District Court for the] Middle District of Tennessee into one docket."
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Foley Expands Denver Health Care Team With Greenberg Traurig Duo

Expanding its health care team in Denver, Foley & Lardner hired Greenberg Traurig health care lawyers Jim Miles and Charles Gass.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Common Sense Medical Records, Billing Legislation to Help Consumers

Two issues that consumers complain about all the time, and for good reason, concern the difficulty of obtaining and understanding medical records and surprise billing that consumers receive from hospitals and doctors after an appointment, procedure or operation.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ga. Appellate Courts Mull Choice of Doctors In Suspending Workers' Comp Benefits

In their petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Appeals, the defendant-appellants argued the Court of Appeals' holding will cause delays in benefits payments, increased cost of doing business in Georgia and an uptick in litigation.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

OIG Approves Online Directory for Health Care Professionals

The opinion ultimately concludes that although the arrangement would generate prohibited remuneration if the requisite intent were present, the OIG will not impose administrative sanctions on the requestor under the act, as the sections relate to the federal anti-kickback statute and beneficiary inducements CMP.
11 minute read

Daily Report Online

Court Fights Are Ramping Up Over States' Transgender Health Care Restrictions

Here's a look at recent developments in the cases and where laws on transgender health care stand.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Burgeoning UCSF Hospital System Appoints First Chief Counsel

Incoming general counsel Rachel Nosowsky will be "an excellent colleague and mentor for all the attorneys in our office," said UCSF Chief Campus Counsel Greta Schnetzler.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ga. Appellate Court Reverses Class Action Certification Denial in Case Over Patient Record Leak to Lawyer

Defendant-appellees have since filed a petition for certiorari with the state Supreme Court.
4 minute read

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