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By Steven A. Meyerowitz | January 9, 2019
The appellate court rejected Allstate's contention that Kennestone's failure to ever send Ms. Gentry notice invalidated its lien because Kennestone did not know Ms. Gentry's identity “until well after the time period of OCGA § 44-14-471(a)(1) for providing notice had passed.”
By R. Robin McDonald | December 11, 2018
Attorneys at Blasingame, Burch, Garrard & Ashley secured the settlement on behalf of a U.S. Army veteran despite South Carolina's $450,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases.
By R. Robin McDonald | September 26, 2018
Atlanta whistleblower lawyer Marlan Wilbanks said that his clients filed the first cases in 2009 that led to Tuesday's $262 million settlement against Hospital Management Associates.
By Amanda Bronstad | August 30, 2018
A judge has allowed the state of Ohio's case to go forward against several opioid manufacturers in a ruling that plaintiffs lawyers are citing in…
By Roy Strom | August 23, 2018
A Chicago jury's $3 million award to the widow of former Reed Smith partner Stewart Dolin has been dismissed after an appeals court held that GlaxoSmithKline was prevented by the FDA from adding a suicide warning to the label for Paxil.
By Greg Land | August 22, 2018
Chief Judge Ed Carnes wrote the panel must apply an “aberration” of constitutional law in applying Supreme Court precedent.
By R. Robin McDonald | August 3, 2018
Prime Healthcare, the nation's fifth-largest hospital chain, has agreed to settle a federal whistleblower case filed by a nurse in one of the company's California hospitals.
By Amanda Bronstad | July 19, 2018
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maren Nelson allowed the plaintiffs' expert testimony before and during trial but, after the Aug. 21 verdict, found there was insufficient evidence linking Johnson & Johnson's baby powder to the plaintiff's ovarian cancer, plaintiffs lawyers say.
By R. Robin McDonald | July 17, 2018
Last year, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia and parent company Anthem Insurance Cos. rolled out a new policy that included refusals claims based on emergency room visits if the insurers later deemed them non-emergencies. Medical associations have been fighting the policy as dangerous and a violation of federal law ever since. On Tuesday, two groups—the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Medical Association of Georgia—sued to block the policy.
By Greg Land | July 12, 2018
The lawsuit said the Celebrity Body Sculpting clinic illegally posted pictures of her nude body—identifiable by her tattoos—on its website, Facebook and Yelp.
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