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Daily Business Review

Feds Crack Down on Hoarding of Scarce Materials and Price Gouging Due to COVID-19

A federal crackdown under the Defense Production Act is aimed at preventing market manipulation, hoarding and price gouging on health and medical supplies.
5 minute read

The Recorder

LA City Attorney Forces Company Offering 'FDA-Approved' Home COVID-19 Tests to Cease Sales, Pay Refunds

Yikon Genomics Inc. and Brandon Hensinger, the CEO of the Foster City, California-based company, were alleged to have offered an at-home test for the virus behind the global pandemic even though the FDA has so far not approved any such a test.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Delays in New York Parole Violation Hearings Are Deadly, Advocates Warn in Federal Suit

Advocates argue that the coronavirus infection rate at Rikers Island is higher than anywhere else in the world, with prevention measures such as social distancing nearly impossible.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

How the Pandemic Will Impact the Trump-Backed Lawsuit Against the Affordable Care Act

Legal experts say the coronavirus is certain to be raised in briefs filed at the U.S. Supreme Court in GOP officials' lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Court Throws Out Suit Seeking to Overturn NJ's Aid-in-Dying Law

"The language of Article I [of the New Jersey Constitution] does not establish a constitutional or fundamental right to protect or defend the lives of others," Mercer County Superior Court Judge Robert Lougy ruled.
7 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Do Your Doctor Clients Know What Kind of Malpractice Insurance They Have?

For doctors in private practice in particular, decisions about malpractice insurance may be among the most important they will make.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Plaintiffs Lawyers Are Skeptical of COVID-19 Med-Mal Cases, but Katrina Showed Risks for Hospitals

Lawmakers may also weigh in, as doctors' insurers and plaintiffs lawyers say they are each working on legislation to protect health care providers from claims stemming from the COVID-19 crisis. Where these adversaries draw the line remains to be seen.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Possibility of Coronavirus Outbreak in State Prisons Sparks Fear

Prison employees are worried that they don't have gloves, face masks and hand sanitizer to protect them from the highly contagious coronavirus, which causes the respiratory disease COVID-19.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Court Reinstates Legal Malpractice Suit Over Vacated $735K Med Mal Verdict

Superior Court Judge Mary Jane Bowes said that while two suits may have stemmed from the same procedure and involved the same doctor, they involved two different sponges that were discovered years apart.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Federal Judge Permits Troubled Sterilization Plant to Resume Full Operations

Shut down over ethylene oxide emissions last year, Sterigenics was allowed to temporarily resume sterilizations of personal protective equipment, about 20% of its former business. Plant lawyers said that wasn't enough, and a federal judge agreed.
4 minute read

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