Quest Diagnostics, California’s biggest medical lab testing provider, yesterday in a settlement agreed to repay the state $241 million for alleged Medi-Cal overcharges.
The American Bar Association is expressing concerns about damages caps and changes to common-law tort rules in a medical liability bill known as the Health Act of 2011.
A federal appeals panel made up of three Democratic appointees appears inclined to agree with the government’s defense of President Obama’s health care law.
Saying that the government couldn’t prove its case, a federal judge in Greenbelt, Md., has dismissed midway through trial an obstruction prosecution against a former in-house lawyer for GlaxoSmithKline.
A New Jersey mother says in a lawsuit that she had to explain the facts of life to her 6-year-old daughter after a stock photo of the girl appeared on…
A New York judge was clearly irked yesterday after learning that a woman he freed early so she could have a heart transplant is not cooperating with efforts to provide…
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down a request from Virginia’s attorney general to hear a challenge to the new health care law on an expedited basis.
An appellate court is poised potentially to make California the first state in the nation to require prisons to provide sex-change surgery for at least some inmates who seek the…
In a closely watched case, lawyers for death row inmates who were cleared for trial by a Texas psychologist reprimanded for his methods are hopeful their clients will avoid lethal…
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