all - Opinion Summaries

Crews v. NCS Healthcare of Illinois, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law
Summary judgment for defendants in a suit under qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act and the Illinois Whistleblower Reward and Protection Act is...

Shands Teaching Hosp. & Clinics, Inc. v. Sidky

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
The Grice joint tortfeasor exception does not apply to the statutory home venue privilege set forth in Florida Statutes section 768.28(1) based upon...

Ross v. Agency for Health Care Admin.

Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
Trial court's allocation to defendant agency of the entire amount of health care expenses paid by the agency after plaintiff's settlement with a third...

Regents of the Mercersburg Coll. v. Republic Franklin Ins. Co.

Civil Rights, Contracts, Education Law, Health Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to private-school dormitories. In an insurance coverage dispute arising out of a lightning strike...

Combs v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
A change in a rule governing the adjudication of social security disability benefits claims that is applied as of its effective date to all pending...

U.S. v. Lapi

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
District court order of a dangerousness hearing is reversed where the order did not conform to the requirements contained in 18 U.S.C. section 4246.

Abatie v. Alta Health & Life Ins. Co.

Evidence, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, ERISA
In ERISA cases in which a conflict of interest exists for the plan administrator, abuse of discretion review, tempered by skepticism commensurate with...

M. Cutter Co., Inc. v. Carroll

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
An employer's petition for review of a decision holding it liable for 24-hour attendant care for claimant under the Longshore and Harbor Workers-...

Bass v. County of Butte

Civil Rights, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
The 1992 and 1996 amendments to California's Unruh Civil Rights Act (Unruh Act) and the Disabled Persons Act (DPA) incorporate into the Unruh Act and...

Alberson v. Norris

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Summary judgment for defendants on a mother's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim alleging that defendants acted with deliberate indifference with respect to...