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By Colleen Murphy | April 24, 2024
"Indeed, the judge's opinion was silent as to Susana's direct claim against the Bergen defendants," the opinion said. "Instead, the judge focused on Alfredo's allegation the Palisades defendants compelled him to 'reuse masks and gowns' and whether Susana could prove her injuries were proximately caused thereby. In the absence of an analysis of Susana's allegations, we are unable to engage in meaningful review."
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By Jimmy Hoover | April 24, 2024
The U.S. government has sued Idaho arguing the state's Defense of Life Act, under which doctors could face prison and lose their licenses for terminating pregnancies, conflicts with the federal 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.
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By Vasilios J. Kalogredis | April 23, 2024
The compact will establish a single license allowing social workers with a college degree or clinical license to serve patients across state lines (within each compact state), including through telehealth platforms. This single license requirement is anticipated to promote greater flexibility and access for both social workers and the patients they serve.
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By Alex Anteau | April 22, 2024
"There's a lot at stake [for Houston Hospitals," said lead counsel Jason Bring of Arnall Golden Gregory. "The freestanding emergency department is proposed to go almost directly between two existing hospitals, within seven or eight miles. As you might expect, that will draw patients away from our hospitals … and the impact on them will be 10% [of their patients and revenue] at minimum, but likely in excess of that.
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By Carrie A. Hanger, Candace S. Friel and Denise M. Gunter | April 22, 2024
The revamped guidelines are yet another tool for the agencies to use as they seek to push back against consolidation— particularly with respect to cross-market and vertical mergers that the agencies have previously had less success in challenging.
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By Maria Dinzeo | April 18, 2024
Heidi Chen spent 13 years at Pfizer before she helped spin out the company's animal-health business into a stand-alone public company in 2012 and became its first legal chief.
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By Riley Brennan | April 17, 2024
The plaintiff sought to file an amended complaint, which would replace her short form complaint that defines "Permanent Chemotherapy Induced Alopecia," using identical language in which the multidistrict litigation court previously rejected. Chief U.S. District Judge Michael F. Urbanski rejected the plaintiff's request and agreed with Sanofi as to each of the plaintiff's claims.
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By Colleen Murphy | April 16, 2024
"The trial judge failed to instruct the jury that the only underlying contract to which the implied covenant could attach to had to be one beyond the rights afforded by Valley's medical staff bylaws," Justice Douglas M. Fasciale said. "Adding to the significant uncertainty created by the jury charge and verdict sheet are the improper admission into evidence of the privileged emails and the improper remarks by plaintiffs' attorney."
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By Marianna Wharry | April 15, 2024
"However, where an entity has a nondelegable duty, it cannot avoid liability simply by delegating its duty to an independent contractor," Chief Justice Steven C. González wrote on behalf of the Washington Supreme Court. "Instead, an entity will be vicariously liable for the independent contractor's negligent performance of that duty absent special circumstances not present here."
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By Brian Lee | April 10, 2024
Noel Francisco, a former U.S. solicitor general, and partner-in-charge at Jones Day's Washington, D.C. office is set to argue on behalf of the coalition, while New York Assistant Solicitor General Laura Etlinger will argue for the New York State Department of Financial Services' 2017 regulation.
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