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Bricker & Eckler: Ohio Insurance Law - Spring 2003 Jun 01, 2003
4810 Medical malpractice bulletin The Ohio Department of Insurance has issued a bulletin to medical malpractice insurers regarding future rate filings, in light of enactment of S.B. 281, the medical malpractice legislation, and S.B. 120, the joint and several liability legislation. Under Bulletin 2003-01 (effectiveApril 10, 2003), every insurer submitting filings to change medical malpractice rates must: (1) provide an analysis, based on actuarial principles and standards of practice, of the
Manatt: HealthLaw@manatt Jun 14, 2002
Understanding and complying with EMTALA means not only referring to the statute and case law interpretations, but wading through the regulations that purport to clarify the statutory requirements. As discussed below, still others would be directly contrary to federal appellate case law interpreting EMTALA. There is an opportunity for problematic provisions to be fixed before they are adopted, and CMS has stated it wants provider comments on all of the proposed changes
Alston & Bird: Medical Malpractice Law & Strategy publishes article by... Jan 01, 2001
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Alston & Bird: Daubert Article by Lori Baer and Elizabeth Bertschi Pub... May 04, 2000
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Foley Lardner: U.S. Supreme Court Denies Review of Federal Decision Al... Jul 08, 1999
The Decision In an unpublished opinion, the U.S. District Court ruled that California's peer review protection did not apply to a federal lawsuit that raised claims under EMTALA and the state malpractice law. The Lawsuit Cody's parents filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging violations of EMTALA, the federal law that prohibits "patient dumping," as well as state law claims of medical malpractice, wrongful death, emotional distress and
Pillsbury Winthrop: Don't Monkey Around Apr 01, 1999
But the law bearing on the "duty to search" is relatively sparse and surprisingly tricky. Yet the law does not require a search, although it may punish for the lack of one
Foley Lardner: First Supreme Court Decision on Patient Dumping Law (PD... Mar 02, 1999
FIRST SUPREME COURT DECISION ON PATIENT DUMPING LAW Executive Summary. The Court may have revealed some skepticism of the Sixth Circuit's view of that issue, however, commenting in a footnote that the Sixth Circuit's "interpretation [in another case] of subsection (a) of EMTALA is in conflict with the law of other circuits which do not read subsection (a) as imposing an improper motive requirement." The Court did not address the issue of whether the plaintiff's EMTALA claim was invalid because
Alston & Bird: Medical Products and Services and Healthcare ? Regulato... Jan 01, 1999
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FROF: Recent Developments In Pennsylvania?s Legal Malpractice... Aug 10, 1998
FROF Articles - Recent Developments In Pennsylvania’s Legal Malpractice Law - 1997 function displayAttorney(aID) { win = window. open("/inside/attorney.asp?IC=y aID,'_blank','menu=yes,height=410,width=630,scrollbars=yes,toolbar=yes,location=no,directories=no,status=no,resizable=yes'); } Recent Developments In Pennsylvania’s Legal Malpractice Law - 1997 by Thomas D. Paradise I. INTRODUCTION Our eighth survey of Pennsylvania’s legal malpractice law provides both reason for concern and hope for the
FROF: Pennsylvania Malpractice Law Update Tort Reform for Hea... Jun 26, 1998
FROF Articles - Pennsylvania Malpractice Law Update Tort Reform for Health Care function displayAttorney(aID) { win = window. open("/inside/attorney.asp?IC=y aID,'_blank','menu=yes,height=410,width=630,scrollbars=yes,toolbar=yes,location=no,directories=no,status=no,resizable=yes'); } Pennsylvania Malpractice Law Update Tort Reform for Health Care by Jacqueline M. Carolan I. MEDICAL MALPRACTICE REFORM: ACT 135 OF 1996 On November 26, 1996, Governor Tom Ridge signed House Bill 2210 and enacted
Hinshaw & Culbertson: A Loss Prevention Primer for the Dabbler
Pressed by economic forces or perhaps the expectations of unreasonable clients, the "dabbler" disregards common sense and strays into areas of the law in which he has little or no experience. Statistically, up to 59% of all losses occur outside a lawyer's or law firm's primary area of practice
Morris: "Supreme Court Decision Precludes Claims Against H...
That same decision, however, opens the door for prosecution of such a suit in state court under a common-law malpractice theory. In the lower court, Herdrich prevailed on her state law malpractice claims, receiving $35,000 in compensation for her injury
Wiley Rein & Fielding: Loss of Jury Verdict Does Not Automatically Create Fore...
...src'); } } Search GO Loss of Jury Verdict Does Not Automatically Create Foreseeable ClaimExecutive Summary, February 2004 A federal district court in Maine, applying Maine law, held that the prior knowledge exclusion in a legal malpractice policy did not exclude coverage for a legal malpractice claim, even though the insured law firm lost a substantial verdict at a trial during a prior policy period. An insurer issued three annual claims-made professional liability policies to a law firm from
Morris: "Supreme Court Decision Precludes Claims Against H...
That same decision, however, opens the door for prosecution of such a suit in state court under a common-law malpractice theory. In the lower court, Herdrich prevailed on her state law malpractice claims, receiving $35,000 in compensation for her injury
Morris: "Supreme Court Decision Precludes Claims Against H...
That same decision, however, opens the door for prosecution of such a suit in state court under a common-law malpractice theory. In the lower court, Herdrich prevailed on her state law malpractice claims, receiving $35,000 in compensation for her injury
Morris: "Supreme Court Decision Precludes Claims Against H...
That same decision, however, opens the door for prosecution of such a suit in state court under a common-law malpractice theory. In the lower court, Herdrich prevailed on her state law malpractice claims, receiving $35,000 in compensation for her injury
Morris: "Supreme Court Decision Precludes Claims Against H...
That same decision, however, opens the door for prosecution of such a suit in state court under a common-law malpractice theory. In the lower court, Herdrich prevailed on her state law malpractice claims, receiving $35,000 in compensation for her injury
Morris: "Supreme Court Decision Precludes Claims Against H...
That same decision, however, opens the door for prosecution of such a suit in state court under a common-law malpractice theory. In the lower court, Herdrich prevailed on her state law malpractice claims, receiving $35,000 in compensation for her injury
