all - Opinion Summaries

Battle Creek Health Sys. v. Leavitt

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
In an action pursuant to the Social Security Act and Administrative Procedure Act brought by certain acute-care hospitals and participating Medicare...

Totten v. Hill

Civil Procedure, Contracts, ERISA, Health Law, Professional Malpractice
In breach of contract dispute over a benefit plan participant's recovery of a medical malpractice settlement, summary judgment for defendant is...

Urban v. Meconi

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
In a matter involving a claimant's request for breast reduction surgery under the Medicaid Early and Periodic Screening Diagnostic and Treatment...

Barrow v. Abramowicz

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
In a medical malpractice case, a jury verdict finding defendant-doctor negligent in his care of decedent, but not liable for his death because his...

People v. Allen

Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law, Sentencing
In the context of petitions for the continued involuntary civil commitment of a prisoner adjudicated to be a mentally disordered offender (MDO), the...

Renfrow v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment against claimant on a claim for social security disability insurance is affirmed as any error in an ALJ's failure to ask a vocational...

Samons v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Denial of a claim for disability benefits and supplemental security income is affirmed where: 1) the ALJ did not err in refusing to give significant...

Newhouse v. Nicholson

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Military Law
A veterans court decision denying claimant an increased disability rating for his hearing loss is affirmed as the Veterans Court did not err by...

Cedars-Sinai Med. Ctr. v. Nat'l League of Postmasters of the US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Health Law
In a suit brought by a hospital against defendant alleging that it had provided services to a patient insured by defendant's health care plan but that...

Massingill v. Nicholson

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit under The Equal Opportunity Employment Act brought by a former nurse at a VA facility, summary judgment for the VA is reversed as: 1) a...