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New York Law Journal

AG's Subpoena for Pregnancy Centers Violates First Amendment, Panel Finds

The Second Department agreed that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has a compelling interest to prevent practicing medicine without a license or other fraudulent or illegal acts, but said that the subpoenas needed to be more narrowly tailored to avoid infringing on the right of freedom of association of a group that runs anti-abortion medical centers.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Legislators Ask Lawyers for Help With Deadly Crisis

With Connecticut ranked third in the nation in the rate of fatal opioid overdoses, legislators are asking attorneys to speak up and try to help reverse the worsening public health nightmare.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Niche-Market Lawyers Battle Insurers' Disparate Treatment of Mental Health Claims

A group of attorneys are pursuing cases against insurers that they say are putting patients with behavioral, rather than physical, health problems at a disadvantage.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Are Drug Ads Endangering Patients' Lives? Chamber Lawyer Says Yes

Are ads from plaintiffs lawyers about prescription drug lawsuits endangering lives by frightening patients into stopping their medications?
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Norris McLaughlin Snags Health Care Group From Kern Augustine

Norris, McLaughlin & Marcus, which appears to be in a sort of growth mode of late, has snagged three lawyers from health care boutique Kern Augustine, including its managing partner.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Gil v. Clara Maas Med. Ctr.

Outside Physician Not Covered by Hospital's Insurance Where Neither Physician nor His Practice Qualified as Covered "Employee"
11 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Doctors Must Obtain Informed Consent Themselves, Justices Rule

Only a physician, not a member of the physician's staff, can obtain informed consent from a patient prior to a medical procedure, a splintered Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled.
6 minute read

Litigation Daily

A Blast From the (Smoky) Past: Are Opioid Suits the New Big Tobacco?

As states, cities and counties pile on to sue opioid manufacturers for fueling drug addiction, it's got a familiar feeling: the suits against big tobacco.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

No Clear Path in 2017 for 'The Eyeball Wars' Legislation

The proposed legislation amends Chapter 463, The Optometry Practice Act, to create two new categories of certification for licensed optometrists; "certified optometrists in pharmaceutical agents,' and "certified optometrists in ophthalmic surgery," writes Paul Buschmann.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

CVS GC Elevated to Become Company's Public Voice in Health Care Debate

Tom Moriarty of CVS is finding himself in Washington, D.C., a lot more these days.
6 minute read

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