all - Opinion Summaries

Knierem v. Group Health Plan, Inc.

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's, representative of decedent's estate, suit for wrongful denial of coverage is affirmed since ERISA does not allow a monetary...

Pralutsky v. Metro. Life Ins. Co.

ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for plaintiff on an ERISA claim seeking to enforce a claimed right to benefits under defendant's long-term disability plan is...

Lupiani v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Order dismissing plaintiffs-employees' ERISA claims against defendant-retailer is reversed where the district court erred in holding that jurisdiction...

Kottmyer v. Maas

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law
Order denying plaintiffs'-parents motion for leave to amend their complaint and granting defendants' motions to dismiss in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983...

Springer v. Henry

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Evidence, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Jury verdict and award for plaintiff, a psychiatrist, on his claim of unlawful termination in retaliation for speech protected by the First Amendment...

Vargas v. Acosta

Family Law, Health Law
Emergency order relocating plaintiff's husband, a ward, from a nursing facility in Miami-Dade County, Florida, to a rehabilitative center in another...

United Auto. Ins. Co. v. Diagnostics of S. Florida, Inc.

Class Actions, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Interlocutory order granting plaintiff's motion for class certification involving a class of medical providers and insureds who are allegedly owed...

W.N. v. Dep't of Children & Families

Family Law, Health Law
Order terminating father's parental rights to his child is affirmed where his drug use, with other factors, threatened the life and safety of his...

Univ. of Miami v. Frank

Contracts, Education Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for plaintiff, a professor of medicine, finding that defendant-university breached an employment contract with plaintiff is reversed...

Scarver v. Litscher

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Health Law
Summary judgment for defendants in a prisoner's civil rights suit alleging violation of his constitutional right not to be subjected to cruel and...