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11th Circuit: Collateral Source Rule No Bar to Evidence of Doctor Funding

The appellate panel ruled that a jury could hear about a litigation investment company's payment of a plaintiff's medical bill as evidence of possible bias by the testifying doctors.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Cushman & Wakefield Team Closes $22.8M Sale of Doral Flex Campus

Transal Park, west of Miami International Airport, is used as offices and warehouses but is approved for retail and hospitality as well.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

McElroy Deutsch Lands Locke Lord Partner for New Providence Office

Paul Dwyer Jr., who headed a national litigation management team for CVS Health Corp. at Locke Lord, is helping McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter move into Rhode Island.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

New GC at American Heart Association: M. Lewis Kinard

M. Lewis Kinard has been named general counsel, assistant corporate secretary and executive vice president at the Dallas-based American Heart Association. He succeeds a retiring Lynne Darrouzet, who is of counsel to the global health nonprofit organization's executive management.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Tips on Preventing Cyber Extortion at Health Care Facilities

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights offers pointers for how to avoid cyber extortion, which involves cybercriminals demanding money to stop or delay their malicious activities that often include stealing sensitive data or disrupting services.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

South Florida Attorneys Win $8M Bad Faith Verdict in Quadriplegia Case

The jury found an auto insurer acted in bad faith by not removing a potential lienholder from a settlement check for a man paralyzed in a crash.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

HIPAA and the Stark Law Take Center Stage in '21st Century Oncology'

The automatic stay does not prohibit a governmental entity from enforcing health-care laws against a debtor.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Under New DOJ Policy, FDA Guidance Documents Cannot be Used to Prosecute Cases

On Jan. 25, the associate attorney general of the United States issued a policy that prohibits the Department of Justice (DOJ) civil litigators from using guidance documents to establish violations of law in civil enforcement actions.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Latest Efforts to Curb Opioid Epidemic in NY: Controlled Substance Schedule Changes

Under a 30-day budget amendment that Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced, 11 fentanyl analogs will be added to the state controlled substances schedule and the New York health commissioner will have the authority to add to the state controlled substances list new drugs that are added to the federal schedule.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Court Affirms Dismissal of Tobacco Cases Because of Dead Clients

Thursday's decision came less than four months after a federal court slapped a $9 million sanction on Jacksonville-based Farah & Farah and The Wilner Firm “to account for the immense waste of judicial resources by maintaining over a thousand non-viable claims.”
5 minute read

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