3058 ABA Journal Health Law articles.
Health-care fraud reportedly may rival drug-dealing as Florida’s biggest illegal industry, and prosecutors are starting to take notice.
Last year, for instance, 80 percent of the medicine billed to Medicare…
Oct 22, 2007 4:11 PM CDT
A Nevada jury that withdrew nearly $100 million in a compensatory verdict for plaintiffs who took Prempro and Premarin has now awarded about that much in punitive damages.
Jurors yesterday…
Oct 16, 2007 11:03 AM CDT
Nevada jurors confessed they made a mistake in setting compensatory damages against the maker of Premarin and Prempro, hormone replacement drugs alleged to have caused breast cancer in three women.
…Oct 15, 2007 1:14 PM CDT
In a ruling that could help struggling families, the Washington Supreme Court says the state must help some children who need mental health services even if their parents aren’t unfit.
…Oct 12, 2007 11:17 PM CDT
Three Nevada women who claimed Prempro and Premarin caused their breast cancer have won a $134.5 verdict against the maker of the hormone-replacement drugs.
The Reno jury delivered the verdict…
Oct 12, 2007 12:57 PM CDT
Movie star George Clooney has given the issue of medical privacy an unexpected boost.
His treatment at a New Jersey hospital for a broken rib after a motorcycle accident may…
Oct 10, 2007 5:34 PM CDT
In a motion filed yesterday in an asylum case, the American Civil Liberties Union calls for a halt to an admitted federal policy of forcibly injecting some immigrants with psychotropic…
Oct 10, 2007 4:10 PM CDT
Relatives expressed relief today after a judge ruled that a retarded North Carolina man who was never tried, yet had been held 14 years in a state mental institution concerning…
Oct 8, 2007 11:34 PM CDT
In Texas, it can be a long wait for a doctor: up to six months.
A “friendlier” malpractice climate in Texas is drawing more physicians to the state.
In the…
Oct 5, 2007 11:29 AM CDT
Coronary artery stents are big business—not only for the companies that make them but also for lawyers.
Litigation over patent rights may be hindering development of new products and forcing…
Oct 4, 2007 2:07 PM CDT
In a blistering rebuke of some of Philadelphia’s most prominent lawyers and law firms, a federal judge has sanctioned them—and their clients—for failing to cooperate with discovery in a medical…
Oct 3, 2007 5:15 PM CDT
Although thousands of cases are being pursued alleging a link between childhood vaccines and autism (see “No Longer Immune” in the July 2006 ABA Journal), it’s doubtful…
Sep 26, 2007 10:33 PM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether Michigan plaintiffs may sue the maker of the diabetes drug Rezulin despite a state law that restricts pharmaceutical suits.
The Food and Drug…
Sep 25, 2007 3:21 PM CDT
One client whose balloon catheter burst later died, but his lawyer sought a U.S. Supreme Court appeal without knowing it. Another client who sued the administrator of a 401(k) plan…
Sep 20, 2007 11:59 AM CDT
An Iowa judge has OK’d a family’s plan to harvest sperm from a dying man so that his fiancée can later have his baby.
The family sought the unusual ruling…
Sep 15, 2007 2:19 AM CDT
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