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Corporate Counsel

GDPR Is Here! Are You Ready?

About two years and several million dollars in, Meera Patel, assistant general counsel for regulatory affairs at Cardinal Health Inc., says her Dublin,…
13 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Jury Issues $24M Verdict in Kidney Stone Case, No-Causes Remaining Defendant

The plaintiff's recovery in the case is limited to $18.3 million because the jury apportioned fault to a defendant who had previously settled.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Fired Risk Manager Gets $1M After Reporting Hospital Violations

A hospital faces $1.1 million in damages for firing a risk manager who reported nurse work violations to a state agency.
1 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Is Companionship Worth $4.5M? Connecticut Supreme Court to Consider 'Loss of Consortium' Claim

The Connecticut Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next week in an appeal by Hartford Hospital related to a medical malpractice verdict. The hospital claims the $4.5 million a jury awarded a widow for loss of consortium was excessive.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Growing Health Care Finance Company CarePayment Hires New GC

Brian McCarthy—a former health care GC with a specialty financing background—will serve as senior vice president and general counsel at Nashville, Tennessee-based CarePayment.
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

Judge Hammers State Over Methadone Center Applications

Pointing to an arbitrary process that “ignores substance in favor of blind luck,” an administrative law judge rejected a state emergency rule drawn up to help license more methadone-treatment centers across Florida.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

State Supreme Court Tries to Draw Line on Malpractice Cases

In a case stemming from an injury to a child who was deaf and had been diagnosed with psychiatric conditions, the Florida Supreme Court tried to resolve questions about when lawsuits deal with medical malpractice — or ordinary negligence.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

As Medical Technologies Reduce Errors, Malpractice Attorneys Must Stay Informed

It is imperative that we not only understand the elements necessary to prosecute or defend a claim of medical malpractice, but that we are also able to identify and apply the specific facts of a case to those elements, proving that each one exists.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Booming Biotech Startup Moderna Names New Top Lawyer

Moderna Therapeutics, a messenger RNA-based therapeutics company located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has called on Lori Henderson to fill its GC chair.
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Fifth Circuit Tosses $502 Million Verdict Against J&J, DePuy Orthopaedics

The appellate opinion said the trial judge committed "serious evidentiary errors" and allowed the plaintiffs counsel to mislead the jury.
4 minute read

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