By Josefa Velasquez | January 18, 2018
PhRMA, the powerful Washington-based advocacy group that represents pharmaceutical companies, blasted a proposal by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to levy a 2-cents-per-milligram surtax on opioid prescription medication sold in the state to help fund measures against the drug epidemic.
By Josefa Velasquez | January 3, 2018
During his 92-minute speech, Cuomo laid out an agenda that includes filing a lawsuit against the federal government over the recently enacted tax bill on grounds it violates constitutional principles, and against pharmaceutical companies in connection with the opioid epidemic.
By Charles Toutant | December 21, 2017
A federal appeals court has reopened a suit against a doctor whose discussion of his patient's medical condition with the man's wife became grist in the couple's divorce proceedings.
By Ross Todd | December 21, 2017
U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam's ruling comes less than a week after a judge in Philadelphia issued a similar injunction.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Josefa Velasquez | December 21, 2017
The New York Law Journal takes a look back at 2017 and reviews the highlights and lowlights of the year in Albany, exclusive of state court rulings.
By Amanda Bronstad | December 20, 2017
A group of more than 20 lawyers who would be on many observers' list of the “best and the brightest” of the mass torts bar filed a motion on Wednesday to be appointed lead counsel in the national opioid multidistrict litigation.
By Kristen Rasmussen | December 20, 2017
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. will pay $13.5 million to settle allegations by attorneys general in all 50 states and the District of Columbia that the company marketed some of its drugs for unapproved uses.
By Jason Grant | December 11, 2017
A related penalty, that psychiatrist Zeinab Elbaz be evaluated by a professional medical conduct committee to determine whether she should undergo a psychiatric evaluation herself, was also not disproportionate.
By Kristen Rasmussen | November 29, 2017
The Brooklyn Hospital Center has agreed to pay $15,000 and make full restitution with interest to dozens of women to settle allegations by the New York Attorney's General's Office that it illegally billed sexual assault victims for forensic rape exams.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Francis J. Serbaroli | November 27, 2017
In his Health Law column, Francis J. Serbaroli discusses a recent Massachusetts case involving a claim of handicap discrimination by a woman whose employment was terminated for using medical marijuana. Unlike some state court decisions that have relied on the federal law criminalizing the possession or use of marijuana of any kind to dismiss employment discrimination cases, the Massachusetts decision held that an employer must at least make an effort to accommodate an employee's use of medical marijuana that is legal under state law.
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