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Daily Report Online

States, Including Georgia, Move to Crack Down on Nurses with Bogus Diplomas

"The public needs to know that when they're the most fragile, when they're sick, when they're in a hospital bed, that the individual who is at their bedside has gone through the required training," said Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, president of the American Nurses Association union.
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Daily Business Review

Man Sues Tampa General Hospital, Claiming It Sends Patient Data to Meta

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

Daily Report Online

Cobb County Opioid Litigation Prompts Lawsuit By Publix

"This action is not a defense of Cobb County's meritless claims," the Publix Super Markets Inc. complaint read. "This action is about the many ways in which Cobb County's retention of private attorneys violates Georgia's State Constitution, laws, and public policy."
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Mississippi Enacts Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

On Tuesday, Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed the bill, which went into effect immediately and is part of a broad effort in conservative states to restrict transgender athletes, gender-affirming care and drag shows.
2 minute read

Daily Report Online

Lawmakers: Tennessee AG Has Legal Concerns Over Abortion Ban

According to House Speaker Cameron Sexton, Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti advised lawmakers that proposed changes to the so-called trigger law would better protect it from court challenges.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Dallas Lawyer Involuntarily Committed Hopes to Defeat Respondents' 'Health Care' Defense

The petition for review, if accepted by the high court, could curtail the common use of the Texas Medical Liability Act in some cases to defeat claims brought under the Texas Mental Health Code and/or the Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Do Doctors, Legislators or Lawyers Determine Standards of Reproductive Health Care?

Georgia policymakers and health care providers discussed the intersection of medicine, law and politics at the annual bar, media and judiciary conference.
5 minute read

Law.com

Dueling Letters From Attorneys General to CVS, Walgreens Delineate Sides in Reproductive Healthcare Fight

"We reject the Biden administration's bizarre interpretation, and we expect courts will as well," read the anti-abortion states letter authored by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey. "Courts do not lightly ignore the plain text of statutes. And the Supreme Court has been openly aversive to other attempts by the Biden administration to press antitextual arguments."
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

OIG: Hospital's NPs Fell Under 'Safe Harbor' Provision of Anti-Kickback Statute

This advisory opinion addressed a proposed arrangement by the hospital under which the hospital employs NPs to assist participating physicians and allows these NPs to perform a wide range of tasks and services that were traditionally only performed by physicians.
8 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

'A Dog Is Chattel': Court Bars 'Emotional Distress' Claim After Driver Runs Over Pet

"The relationship between a pet owner and pet does not meet the 'closely related' element of 'Clohessy,' as that case appears to restrict this element to the close relationship between a parent and a child or between siblings," the decision said.
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