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New Jersey Law Journal

Virtua Drug Tests Pregnancy Patients Without Consent, NJ Attorney General Alleges in New Suit

"[W]hen pregnant patients receive a positive test result, Virtua will automatically report them to the Division of Child Protection and Permanency for possible child abuse or neglect—even when the positive test occurs only because the patient ate a poppy seed bagel," the complaint said.
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Law.com

Judge: 'Perfect Adherence' to Religious Beliefs Not Necessary to Clear Discrimination Suit Against Former Employer

Relying on recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit precedent, a federal judge in Missouri is allowing an employee's religious discrimination…
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New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Supreme Court Considers Ability to Add Nonparty Doctors to Med Mal Verdict Sheets

"Defendant talks about fundamental fairness, but here, he just does not like the remedy that the defendant has," said an attorney for amicus curiae New Jersey Association for Justice.
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The Recorder

California Federal Judge to Hear Arguments in Health Care Clinic's Case Against City of Santa Ana

SOS is represented by pro bono counsel Nora Salem and Brett Williamson from O'Melveny & Myers and is seeking $500,000 in damages equivalent to the expenses incurred during the process of seeking approvals for the expansion.
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National Law Journal

FTC Takes Legal Action Against Three Largest PBMs Over High Insulin Prices

"Millions of Americans with diabetes need insulin to survive, yet for many of these vulnerable patients, their insulin drug costs have skyrocketed over the past decade thanks in part to powerful PBMs and their greed," said Rahul Rao, deputy director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition.
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New Jersey Law Journal

'I Don't Want to Die Fearfully': Outsiders Can't Get Help to Die in NJ

Plaintiff and hospice physician Paul Bryman said in a statement that the ruling "means I cannot provide non-resident patients who request this gentle-dying option with care consistent with their values and wishes at one of the most important moments in their lives."
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New Jersey Law Journal

$10.35M Settlement After Doctors Fail to Diagnose Virus

"I read an exhaustive amount of medical journals, literature, studies, scientific papers, from around the world on these topics, which I think ultimately gave me the ability to confront these defense experts in the opinions that they offered and really discount and diminish the validity of those opinions that they were trying to argue," Justin Drazin said.
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Law.com

Ex-Nurse's 'Individualized, Idiosyncratic Religion' Claims Against COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate Allowed to Proceed, Judge Rules

"Here, the plaintiff has alleged that a core principle of being 'Pagan' is submitting to natural forces and refusing artificial medical aid," U.S. Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV wrote. "She has asserted that the mRNA technology used to develop some of the COVID-19 vaccines makes them unnatural and impermissible, as distinct from the virus-derived annual flu vaccine. That asserted connection is sufficient to support a plausible claim that accepting at least some of the COVID-19 vaccines would violate a tenet of her idiosyncratic religion."
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The Legal Intelligencer

Health Care Worker Files Class Action Against Staffing Agency for Unpaid Meal Breaks

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM's source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state and federal courts.
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Law.com

Cigna's Express Scripts Sues Federal Trade Commission

"The FTC has taken unconstitutional actions in publishing a report that ignores the evidence provided by our company and other [pharmacy benefit managers], demonstrates clear ideological bias and advances a false and damaging narrative—narrative that could harm the health care system by removing essential checks and balances which would result in higher drug prices for American consumers," The Cigna Group Chief Legal Officer Andrea Nelson said.
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