By Josefa Velasquez | June 28, 2017
New York state is taking regulatory steps to ensure that health insurers maintain coverage for certain benefits currently provided under federal law…
By Andrew Denney | June 22, 2017
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.
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | June 20, 2017
ALJ Failed to Develop Record, Should Explain Her Decision Mental Impairments Not Severe
By Kristen Rasmussen | June 19, 2017
A federal judge in the Eastern District has dismissed charges accusing a Long Island doctor of overprescribing opioid medication. The doctor had used the novel defense of accusing pharmaceutical companies of being responsible, but the judge dismissed the charges because the indictment failed to include necessary statutory elements. U.S. Attorney's office says it will file a new indictment.
By Jason Grant | June 16, 2017
A split First Department panel allowed the lawsuit against Montefiore Medical Center, brought by a 17-year-old who suffered a pulmonary embolism and brain damage, to proceed based largely on a physician's statements that, "if the nurse practitioner had removed the NuvaRing, and referred plaintiff for further assessment, all of the subsequent injuries and complications suffered by plaintiff would have been avoided."
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | June 13, 2017
Settlement of FLSA Claims Approved; Arm's Length Bargain Avoids Risks of Litigation
By P.J. D'Annunzio | June 13, 2017
The Third Department has allowed the wife of a man who suffered complications during heart surgery to access investigative findings from a state Department of Health review of the procedure that were previously withheld by the agency.
By Kristen Rasmussen | June 7, 2017
A Long Island physician is using a novel defense against federal prosecutors accusing him of overprescribing narcotic painkillers: The drug manufacturers are responsible.
By Marcia Coyle | June 5, 2017
The employee retirement plans of religious-affiliated nonprofits are exempt from the protections and requirements of the federal pension law, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The decision was a blow to multimillion-dollar class actions that seek to hold those plans liable for violating the federal law.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 15, 2017
Securities lawsuits have become a major headache for life sciences companies, according to recent reports. And two plaintiffs' firms, Pomerantz and The Rosen Law Firm, are leading the charge.
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