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Senate Seeks to Add Doctors, Expand Access to Medical Care

The effort to boost access to health care comes as more than 11% of Floridians lack insurance, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
6 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Religious Organization's Challenge to Vaccine Requirement Fails

"If the law compels a judge to write an opinion that a church may still preach its doctrine and its congregants may live that doctrine everywhere except church, the Constitution has died in the United States," Cameron Atkinson said.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Torts: The Death of Duty of Care

A discussion of a health insurer's ability to overrule a doctor's prescription/plan via the "prior authorization" process, and whether or not this triggers the most fundamental concept in torts: the duty of care.
11 minute read

New York Law Journal

Juror Attitudes Toward Pharmaceutical Companies

In February 2023, the DOAR Research Center sought to shed light on changing attitudes toward the pharmaceutical industry by conducting a survey, which questioned respondents on their opinions of the pharmaceutical industry and their COVID-19 experiences. This article highlights the results of the survey.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Child Victims Act Advocate Wins $3.7M Judgment

Although the hospital no longer exists, Greenberg said his attorneys will pursue the award from the Cohoes Memorial Hospital Foundation sole asset, the property on which the hospital sat.
4 minute read

Law.com

Judge Declines to Hold Medical Staffing Agency in Civil Contempt for 'Honest Efforts' to Fix Payroll

"Although the [c]ourt finds [p]laintiff arguments for civil contempt compelling, [d]efendants have now come into compliance, thus rendering it unnecessary for the [c]ourt to address sanctions and attorneys' fees," wrote U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson of the Eastern District of Virginia. "Further, [d]efendants provided a good-faith defense for delaying compliance with the [c]ourt's [o]rder. Therefore, the [c]ourt does not find [d]efendants in civil contempt."
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

Big Law's Flood Into Boomtown Nashville Tests Client Loyalties

"Some clients are super loyal to their firms that they work with, sometimes blindingly so," said Joan MacLeod Heminway, a University of Tennessee law professor.
9 minute read

Corporate Counsel

American Hospital Association GC Who Helped Fend Off Affordable Care Act Challenges to Retire

Melinda Hatton built a "terrific track record" during her 16 years as general counsel, AHA CEO Rick Pollack said.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

$120M Medical Malpractice Verdict Said To Be Westchester's Largest

Rubinowitz represented a client who suffered irreversible brain damage as a result of what he said was a hospital's delay in diagnosing a basilar artery stroke.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Solo-GC-of-Year Helped Provider of VR-Based Pain Therapy Overcome Novel Challenges

"I've built my career on being a solutions-oriented, practical business partner," said Deitzah Raby, general counsel of AppliedVR from July 2022 to September 2023. "These were big wins, and it was exciting to be part of that."
3 minute read

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