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TROKNYA v. CLEVELAND CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Evidence was sufficient to support jury finding that defendant misrepresented important elements of its patient recruitment policies to prospective...

TILLERY v. HOFFMAN ENCLOSURES, INC.

Health Law, Insurance Law
A health benefit plan's administrator acted reasonably in denying coverage for an experimental bowel replacement surgery because a reasonable person...

WISCONSIN DEPT. OF HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVS. v. BLUMER

Government Benefits, Health Law
The "income-first" method used by most states to calculate Medicaid eligibility for nursing home residents, which requires that potential income...

SOVAK v. CHIGAI PHARMACEUTICAL CO.

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Health Law
When an underlying Stock Redemption Agreement contains only a general state choice-of-law, federal law governs the right to compel arbitration, while...

BARNHART v. SIGMON COAL CO.

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
The plain language of the Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act of 1992 does not permit the Commissioner to assign health care benefit premiums of...

RIVERA v. WYETH-AYERST LAB.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Health Law
In an appeal seeking nationwide class certification of drug purchasers and their insurance companies, plaintiffs' failure to demonstrate an injury in...

STAHL v NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTALS CORP.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Since there is no "intentional acts" exception to the exclusive remedy provision of the Louisiana Products Liability Act, plaintiff's intentional tort...

IN RE: GRAND JURY v. RINALDI

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Sanctions
Where the district court attempted to coerce contemnor into involuntarily producing documents sought by government, and the contemnor retained the...

N.X. v. CABRINI MED. CTR.

Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
A sexual assault by a hospital employee is not in furtherance of hospital business, and the hospital is precluded from being held vicariously liable...

DOOKERAN v. MERCY HOSP. OF PITTSBURGH

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Government Law
Where an employee exposed allegedly false statements made in an application that contained no demand for payment of federal funds, the whistleblower...