3131 ABA Journal Health Law articles.
A federal judge in Florida has given the green light to a challenge by 20 states of the recent health care reform legislation backed by the Obama administration.
However, U.S.…
Oct 15, 2010 10:00 AM CDT
Developing: Perhaps 100 people have been arrested in California, Georgia, Ohio, New Mexico and New York, in a record-breaking Medicare fraud case that allegedly involved $100 million in bogus billings…
Oct 13, 2010 6:42 PM CDT
A federal judge in Atlanta yesterday okayed a $375 million settlement of a criminal case by Allergan Inc. concerning the company’s marketing of Botox drug…
Oct 6, 2010 5:05 PM CDT
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is being asked to adopt a rule that would provide free lawyers to some civil litigants.
The proposed rule would require free representation to protect poor…
Oct 1, 2010 11:00 AM CDT
Initial defense claims of caffeine-induced insanity and a caffeine-induced false confession were abandoned before a Kentucky jury had a chance to determine their validity in the murder…
Sep 23, 2010 6:43 PM CDT
A lawyer who found himself at the center of an international furor after traveling with what was originally publicly proclaimed to be a highly contagious form of tuberculosis is fighting…
Sep 15, 2010 7:07 PM CDT
In a three-paragraph order today, a federal appeals court has temporarily lifted a district judge’s preliminary ban on government funding of some research on stem cells from human embryos.
By…
Sep 9, 2010 8:14 PM CDT
A woman who says she was blinded and burned by a prescription pain medication has been awarded $21 million by a federal jury in New Hampshire.
The plaintiff, Karen Bartlett,…
Sep 9, 2010 4:19 PM CDT
In what may be a one-of-a-kind move, the University of Iowa College of Law is offering all comers the opportunity to attend a free online 14-week course on the nation’s…
Aug 26, 2010 11:10 PM CDT
An Indiana patient rights law led one Indiana nursing home to go along with the wishes of a resident who specified she wanted only white caregivers.
The law says patients…
Aug 25, 2010 10:30 AM CDT
Finding that a plan by the Obama administration to expand federally funded research using human embryonic stem cells likely is prohibited by a federal law banning the use of government…
Aug 23, 2010 10:25 PM CDT
A Florida appeals court has ruled 2-1 that a Tallahassee judge was wrong to forcibly hospitalize a pregnant woman.
The 1st District Court of Appeal held that the ruling violated…
Aug 12, 2010 8:58 PM CDT
An uptick of government and private enforcement efforts in recent months concerning alleged wage-and-hour violations is now focusing on the health care industry.
The Department of Labor has increased its…
Aug 12, 2010 12:13 AM CDT
The news isn’t all bad for legal job seekers, especially those with experience in a few key areas.
In an article posted at the Law Marketing…
Aug 10, 2010 10:30 AM CDT A Las Vegas lawyer who pleaded guilty to obstruction earlier this year concerning an alleged medical malpractice case kickbacks scheme has been temporarily suspended by the Nevada Supreme Court. Further…
Aug 5, 2010 9:01 PM CDTLawyer Who Took Obstruction Plea in Med Mal Kickbacks Case Is Suspended
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