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The Legal Intelligencer

Municipal Legal Spending and Liability for Denied Treatment: What's on the Pa. High Court's May Agenda

Oral arguments in 10 matters are scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, with cases touching on issues including local municipalities' legal spending and health care professionals' liability for denying mental health treatment.
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National Law Journal

DOJ Announces Task Force to Tackle Health Care Monopolies

"Task forces sometimes can be inefficient," said attorney Melissa Maxman. "But if ever there were a need for one, it would be in health care competition."
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

High Court Weighs in After Judges Disagree on Damages, Negligence

The Supreme Court took the case because the court had not addressed the validity of a claim for medical negligence that results in an unplanned pregnancy and birth of a healthy child, Justice Rebeca Huddle said.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Was $15M Too Much?: Defendants Argue for New Trial in Macon-Bibb Medical Malpractice Appeal

"[The defense was] doing our work for us, and we were fine with that," the plaintiff-appellees said.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Federal Judge Leaves Questions Regarding COVID-19 Vaccine Religious Exemptions for Jury to Decide

According to U.S. District Judge Malachy E. Mannion, Bey plausibly pleaded he gave his employer fair warning of the conflict, finding he couldn't be faulted for not providing more information about his faith on the religious exemption form.
4 minute read

Law.com

Federal Judge Allows Suit Against Alabama's 'Abortion Travel Ban' to Proceed

"Alabama can no more restrict people from going to, say, California to engage in what is lawful there than California can restrict people from coming to Alabama to do what is lawful here," U.S. District Judge Myron H. Thompson wrote.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Miami Jury Returns $2.5M Verdict Against Assisted-Living Facility

"You have to get all of the information because the nursing home is not going to tell you the truth of what happened," said John "Jack" McLuskey, a partner at McLuskey, McDonald & Hughes.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

The Attorney Who Helped Write a Controversial Law Is Now Testing It

"This is just a lawsuit in fearmongering," respondents' lead counsel Katherine Treistman said.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments on Sufficiency of AOM in Med Mal Case

"If we had the 'Ferreira' conference, which this court says is a 'backstop,' this would not have happened," said Christina Vassiliou Harvey of Lomurro Munson, who served as pro bono counsel to the plaintiff. "We would have avoided all of this if there was just a conference and an explanation."
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Practical Prescriptions for Incident Response and Preparedness in Health Care

This article provides an overview of the health care sector's growing cybersecurity risks, best practices for helping prevent or mitigate cyberattacks and best practices for responding to incidents and mitigating health care organizations' risk of enforcement actions and litigation.
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