3037 ABA Journal Health Law articles.
Persuaded by a lobbyist that Minouche Noel really needed the $8.5 million she had been awarded by a Florida jury for being paralyzed in a botched surgery, the state legislature…
Jul 19, 2007 7:21 PM CDT
Lawyers are using an animated chipmunk and YouTube to reach class members entitled to proceeds of a class-action settlement funded by the maker of Paxil.
Two videos posted on the…
Jul 18, 2007 5:55 PM CDT
Professional wrestler Chris Benoit had 10 times the normal level of testosterone in his blood when he killed his wife and 7-year-old son and committed suicide at their suburban Atlanta…
Jul 17, 2007 11:41 PM CDT
Libya’s High Judicial Council has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences initially imposed on six foreign medics convicted in a controversial case of having intentionally started an HIV epidemic…
Jul 17, 2007 9:47 PM CDT
At least for the moment, Shambo is safe from the butcher’s knife. Revered by the Hindu Skanda Vale Community in West Wales, the 6-year-old Friesian bull had tested positive for…
Jul 17, 2007 12:09 AM CDT
It isn’t just data entry, computer programming and some legal work that’s being outsourced to India these days.
Infertile couples from the U.S. and other foreign countries are now paying…
Jul 12, 2007 10:37 PM CDT
Two years after Mississippi settled a lawsuit that claimed abuses at a state reform school, a new suit cites continuing problems.
Five of the six plaintiffs say they were shackled…
Jul 12, 2007 3:50 PM CDT
Updated: A former top aide to the vice president of the United States didn’t have to serve time for lying to a federal grand jury. So why should I?
That…
Jul 11, 2007 9:13 PM CDT
It almost had to happen–Atlanta trial attorney Andrew Speaker, now notorious as the lawyer who traveled internationally against doctor’s orders while infected with tuberculosis, is reportedly about to be sued…
Jul 6, 2007 7:26 PM CDT
Charges have been dropped against two nurses accused of having helped murder four patients, aged 61 to 90, allegedly given a lethal drug cocktail by a physician during the chaos…
Jul 6, 2007 1:59 AM CDT
An Atlanta attorney whose international air travel recently caused consternation after the public was told he is infected with a rare–and particularly deadly–form of TB actually isn’t all that sick.
…Jul 3, 2007 11:46 PM CDT
Before murdering his wife and 7-year-old son and committing suicide at his suburban Atlanta home late last month, professional wrestler Chris Benoit reportedly got “excessive” amounts of steroids using prescriptions…
Jul 3, 2007 8:35 PM CDT
A doctor who prescribed testosterone to pro wrestler Chris Benoit is under investigation by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, following a double murder-suicide by Benoit in his suburban Atlanta home…
Jun 29, 2007 12:41 AM CDT
The Los Angeles city attorney has filed civil complaints against two California hospitals accused of dumping homeless patients in skid row.
The complaints name Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los…
Jun 27, 2007 8:35 PM CDT
A Nigerian court has refused to dismiss a $7 billion lawsuit against Pfizer Inc. for allegedly testing antibiotic drugs on children in the mid-1990s, resulting in injuries and as many…
Jun 26, 2007 4:48 PM CDT
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