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Chao v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Comm'n

Administrative Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a dispute over the scope of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission-s authority to group, for penalty assessment, violations which...

First Med. Health Plan, Inc. v. Vega-Ramos

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Insurance Law
Preliminary injunction ordering the executive director of the Administraci-n de Servicios de Salud de Puerto Rico to permit a health insurance...

Metzger v. UNUM Life Ins. Co. of Am.

Administrative Law, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In the context of ERISA-governed plans, 29 C.F.R. section 2560.503-1(h)(2)(iii) does not require a plan administrator to provide a claimant with...

Rittenhouse v. UnitedHealth Group Long Term Disability Ins. Plan

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, ERISA, Evidence, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action arising from a denial of disability benefits, summary judgment for an employee and an award of attorney's fees and costs are...

Markovich v. Sec'y of Health & Human Servs.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
"[T]he first symptom or manifestation of onset," for the purposes of 42 U.S.C. section 300aa-16(a)(2), is the first event objectively recognizable as...

Giandana v. Providence Rest Nursing Home

Elder Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In case where alleged negligent acts involved decedent, partial summary judgment for plaintiff is precluded where questions of fact remain relating to...

Golino v. Sarasota County Pub. Hosp. Bd.

Health Law
Affirmed.

Bonner v. Dep't of Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare Sys.

Administrative Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
A nurse's petition for review of an arbitrator's decision, which converted agency employer's removal of the nurse into a 30-day suspension, is...

Crockett Colleries, Inc. v. Barrett

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
An award of black lung benefits to coal mine worker is affirmed where, although the Benefits Review Board erred in finding that petitioners' petition...