All Entries in the "Medical Malpractice" Category
Planned Parenthood Of Great Northwest, ACLU Challenge Parental Notification Ballot Initiative
Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest has filed an appeal asking the Alaska Supreme Court to invalidate a proposed ballot initiative seeking to impose parental notification requirements before a minor can obtain an abortion, the Anchorage Daily News reports…
Stevens Announces He ‘Will Surely’ Retire During Obama Presidency, Withholds Decision On Timing
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, leader of the court’s liberal bloc for more than 15 years, said he “will surely” retire while President Obama is president but stopped short of announcing whether he would step down this year, the Washington Post reports. In March, Stevens told a New Yorker reporter that he would [...]
Ruling In DNA Patent Case Celebrated By The Association For Molecular Pathology
The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) is an international medical and professional association representing approximately 1,800 physicians, doctoral scientists, and medical laboratory scientists who perform laboratory testing based on knowledge derived from molecular biology, genetics, and genomics…
Mass. Municipalities Could Be Hard Hit By Cadillac Tax
The Boston Globe: “Massachusetts municipalities that offer employees, retirees, and elected officials the most generous and costly health insurance plans will feel the squeeze of the new national health care law’s tax on ‘Cadillac’ insurance plans. A family health plan that costs more than $27,500 would be subject to a 40 percent tax on every [...]
The Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association Weighs In On The Antwoine Key Verdict: The Cautionary Tale Of A Big Heart
While a jury awarded Tony and Angela Key, $1…
Teva Settles Generic Eloxatin Litigation
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA) announced today that patent infringement litigation pertaining to Teva’s generic version of sanofi-aventis and Debiopharm’s Eloxatin (oxaliplatin injection) has been dismissed by the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey pursuant to a settlement between the parties…
Mass. Rejects Insurers’ Rate Hikes
Massachusetts regulators denied 235 of 274 requests by health insurance plans to raise premiums because officials view the hikes as excessive, The Boston Globe reports. “The rulings, following a review process set in motion by emergency regulations [Gov. Deval] Patrick filed in February, mark the first time the state has used its authority to turn [...]
Arizona Approves Bill To Join Health Reform Lawsuit, Colorado Democrats Push Back Against Their AG
After Arizona lawmakers give the go-ahead, the governor signed a measure into law Thursday that allows the state to join a lawsuit with other states challenging the constitutionality of the health reform overhaul passed by Congress. Yuma Sun: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the legislation passed a day earlier by the Arizona legislature…
Roeder Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murder Of Abortion Provider Tiller
On Thursday, Scott Roeder — the man convicted of first degree murder in the May 2009 shooting of abortion provider George Tiller — was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 50 years, Los Angeles Times reports. Roeder, age 52, was convicted Jan. 29, 2010, of premeditated murder after shooting Tiller [...]
Probation Officers Rehabilitation Aim At Odds With Government Punishment Agenda
In recent years the UK Government has been placing less emphasis on the idea of probation as a form of rehabilitation, instead re-framing it as ‘punishment in the community,’ with a focus on protecting the public…
88,000 US Citizen Children Lost Lawful Immigrant Parent To Deportion: Children Left Behind Suffer Psychological, Behavioral Problems
The United States government has deported the lawful immigrant parents of nearly 88,000 citizen children in just a decade, according to a new report released from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Davis law schools…
