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Scott Signs Controversial Pregnancy Center, Bethune Statue Bills

Gov. Rick Scott signed 30 bills into law, including a measure that could make more permanent a controversial pregnancy “support services” program and a bill that calls for placing a statue of civil-rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune in the U.S. Capitol.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

You're Mentally Ill, Case Dismissed, Now Go to Jail

Not until a lawyer witnesses their mentally ill client placed in handcuffs and escorted to jail does the injustice of this law manifest itself.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Pain Pharma Company Collegium Brings Outside Counsel In-House as Its First GC

Canton, Massachusetts-based Collegium Pharmaceutical has hired Shirley Kuhlmann as the pain management pharmaceutical company's first executive vice president, general counsel and secretary.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Appeals Court Reinstates Survivors' Expert in Deadly Med-Mal Weight-Loss Case

The three-judge Appellate Division panel reinstated the lawsuit, which alleged that 42-year-old Michelle Skounakis died 15 days after she was prescribed Cytomel, a thyroid hormone that can be used as a weight-loss medication.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

PIP Development: Some Excess Bills Now Boardable

OP-ED: Some medical bills, not paid by PIP benefits, may now be admitted into evidence.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Feds Decline to Intervene in Hospice False Claims Act Lawsuit

The U.S. Department of Justice has declined to intervene in four whistleblower lawsuits accusing Toledo, Ohio-based Heartland Hospice and its owner, HCR ManorCare Inc., of routinely admitting patients who were not eligible for the service under Medicare.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

NY Insurer Pays Nearly $600K to Resolve Data Breach That Exposed SSNs

New York City-based health care provider EmblemHealth has agreed to pay $575,000 to the state of New York to settle allegations that it inadvertently disclosed the Social Security numbers of more than 81,000 people.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

NFL Union Boss Confronts 'Myth of the Football Exception' in Labor Law

Catching up with DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the NFL Players Association. Smith talks with the NLJ in a wide-ranging interview about what's on his plate. "We don't make apologies for being an aggressive labor union," Smith says.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Three Drugmakers Settle Hundreds of Lawsuits Over 'Low T' Treatment

None of the companies have revealed how much the settlements were worth.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

$6M Verdict for Delayed Liver Cancer Diagnosis

A Philadelphia jury on March 6 awarded $6 million to the estate and wife of a 65-year-old man who died of liver cancer after his doctors disregarded two separate recommendations for MRIs by radiologists.
5 minute read

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