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Brown v. City of Los Angeles

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In an action brought by two LAPD officers injured in the line of duty claiming that an offset for any workers' compensation award, contained in LAPD's...

Hartford Underwriters Ins. Co. v. Found. Health Servs. Inc.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Health Law, Insurance Law
In a coverage dispute between an insurer and the owner/operator of various healthcare facilities and nursing homes, denial of insurer's motions for...

Lyons v. Potter

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a case filed against USPS ten months after USPS rendered a final agency decision on an employee's Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) complaint,...

Grovatt v. St. Jude Med., Inc.

Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, False Advertising, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In products liability litigation concerning the Silzone prosthetic heart valve, certification of a class of plaintiffs pursuant to Fed. Civ. Pro. Rule...

Colacicco v. Apotex Inc.

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In state-law tort actions brought against drug manufacturers of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ("SRRIs") based on a...

Johnston v. Multidata Sys. Int'l Corp.

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In an action brought against Delaware and Canadian corporations arising from personal injuries to plaintiffs or their decedents from over-exposure to...

Lonicki v. Sutter Health Central

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Evidence, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
An employer's failure to obtain a binding determination by a third health care provider when there are two conflicting opinions per the dispute...

Hannah v. US

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) suit alleging medical malpractice arising from treatment plaintiff-pro se prisoner received while suffering from a...

Prince v. Sutter Health Cent.

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
An unlicensed social worker, registered with the appropriate agency and working toward licensure, is a "health care provider" rendering "professional...

Garg v. Potter

Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging that the US Postal Service failed to accommodate plaintiff's disability and constructively discharged her, summary judgment for...