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Daily Business Review

Don't Sue Us: Florida Hospitals, Nursing Homes Want Protection From COVID-19 Lawsuits

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the Florida Health Care Association says long-term caregivers should be able to make tough decisions while working with residents and patients, without having to worry about being sued.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Order Gives Some Emergency Powers — But Not All — to Condo Associations

Law partners Alessandra Stivelman and Carolina Sznajderman Sheir assess an emergency order issued by the state Department of Professional Regulation governing community associations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Florida Senate Says New Law Scuttles Medicaid Initiative

Florida Decides Healthcare proposed its initiative after lawmakers refused repeatedly in recent years to expand Medicaid to low-income adults who currently don't qualify for coverage.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

'Thinking Ahead': Shook Hardy Attorney Gets Quick FDA OK to Switch Apnea Devices to Ventilators

A small Florida company happened to make the right things at the right time during the coronavirus pandemic. But it needed help from its regulatory counsel at Shook Hardy to allow its apnea devices to be used as noninvasive ventilators.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Safety Versus Liberty: Litigators Push for Constitutional Rights Amid COVID-19 Restrictions

In states like Texas, New York, Georgia, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., lawyers are filing cases arguing that governments' coronavirus restrictions are violating Americans' constitutional rights.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

New York Leads the Way in Providing Liability Protections to Health Care Workers

The swift actions of the Governor and Legislature should serve as a model for legislation to be implemented across the country.
9 minute read

Corporate Counsel

COVID-19 and the Rated Order: Must You Change Manufacturing Locations, Sources for PPE?

In response to the continued rapid spread of, and increasing death toll from, COVID-19 in the United States, the drumbeat in the United States for more medical tests, supplies and equipment—in particular personal protection equipment (PPE)—has grown louder and more urgent since President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on March 13.
9 minute read

Law.com

As More Doctors Immunized From Liability, What Happens to Medical Malpractice Lawsuits?

Lawyers for hospitals predict there still could be medical malpractice lawsuits amid the COVID-19 outbreak, but plaintiffs lawyers are concerned about their practices. "You don't want to be the one suing heroes," said attorney John Hochfelder.
8 minute read

The American Lawyer

'A Pro Bono Boom': Doctors, Inmates & Immigrants Get Big Law Help as COVID-19 Spreads

Counsel at firms with top-ranked pro bono programs say they're seeing an increase in both the demand for pro bono work during the COVID-19 pandemic, and in attorneys at their firms wanting to offer free legal services.
8 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Coronavirus Gives Telemedicine a Boost: What Health Care Leaders Need to Know

The fast-spreading novel coronavirus is increasing the use of telemedicine across the country and in Texas. Telemedicine provides a way for patients…
5 minute read

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