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Casey v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of disability insurance and supplemental security income benefits is affirmed where it was supported by substantial evidence, as an ALJ: 1) did...

Reilly v.Wyeth

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a personal injury suit resulting from autism allegedly caused by exposure to the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, contained in several...

Prater v. Ohio Educ. Ass'n

Class Actions, Contracts, ERISA, Education Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought by retired employees of defendant claiming that defendant improperly terminated their health benefits, which allegedly had become...

Wernikoff v. Health Care Serv. Corp.

Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, Health Law, Insurance Law
In a complaint alleging violation of the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act based on a medical insurance rate structure,...

In re: Angel S.

Family Law, Health Law
Involuntary admission and commitment to the Department of Mental Health for 90 days is reversed where the trial court failed to consider less...

Trafny v. US

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Health Law
In an action brought against the government by an inmate in a federal correctional institution alleging the Federal Bureau of Prisons has failed to...

Sumuel v. ADVO, Inc.

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit brought on behalf of a class of employees and former employees against defendant-employer and one of its managers for unpaid overtime...

Suter v. Goedert

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a bankruptcy appeal involving a dispute over one of the estate's assets, a legal malpractice lawsuit, a judgment dismissing appellant's appeal from...

Wysong v. Dow Chem. Co.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a Family and Medical Leave Act, and state law discrimination and wrongful discharge suit brought against Dow Chemical company after it terminated...

Nat'l Plan Admins., Inc. v. Nat'l Health Ins. Co.

Contracts, Health Law, Insurance Law
In a suit arising after respondent contracted with petitioner for it to perform third-party administrator duties for cancer insurance policies issued...