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Chorosevic v. MetLife Choices

Class Actions, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA class action alleging that defendants improperly calculated secondary health benefits owed to plaintiffs, summary judgment for defendants...

Dodson v. Univ. of Arkansas for Med. Sci.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Education Law, Health Law
In an action claiming that a university's refusal to allow plaintiff control over the disposition of embryos created by plaintiff and her ex-husband...

United Healthcare Ins. Co. v. Davis

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Law, Health Law, Insurance Law
In both parties' appeal from the district court's order enjoining the implementation of La. R.S. section 42:802.1 (the Act) on the basis that it...

HEARING COMPONENTS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SHURE INC., Defendant-Cross Appellant.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent infringement action involving patents related to hearing aid ear piece devices, district court's judgment is affirmed in part, reversed in...

Innovative Therapies, Inc. v. Kinetic Concepts, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
District court's dismissal of plaintiff's declaratory judgment action involving patents related to medical devices used in treatment of chronic...

Dobbs v. Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law
In an action alleging failure to comply with the terms of a health insurance policy, dismissal of the complaint is reversed where: 1) under the law of...

In re: Bd. of Educ. of Bay Shore Union Free Sch. Dist.

Administrative Law, Education Law, Health Law
In an action by a school district to vacate the determination of a State Review Officer, under the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act,...

Hirschfeld v. Teller

Government Law, Health Law
In an action by Mental Hygiene Legal Services (MHLS) against defendant nursing homes alleging that, because the nursing homes were providing services...

Cotton v. StarCare Med. Grp.

Administrative Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action claiming that defendant health care provider inadequately treated plaintiffs' decedent, dismissal of the action is affirmed in part where...

Sacred Heart Health Sys., Inc. v. Humana Military Healthcare Servs., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Government Benefits, Health Law, Insurance Law, Military Law
In a class action by hospitals claiming that defendant-HMO systematically underpaid them for medical services they rendered to veterans under a...