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Did Sudden $500 Spike In Asthma Inhaler Cost Lead To 22-Year-Old’s Death?

March 25, 2025

The parents of a 22-year-old asthmatic who died on January 20, 2024 after suffering an asthma attack for which he did not have his inhaler because he could not afford the increase in the out-of-pocket cost from $66 to $539 filed a lawsuit against the giant pharmacy benefits manager OptumRX and pharm[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Rules Nonemergency Medical Transportation Broker May Be Liable For Driver’s Negligence

March 24, 2025

LogistiCare Solutions, LLC received a trip request from Debra Jones for transportation to a medical appointment on July 20, 2018. Bethlehem Transportation, Inc., which had a contract with LogistiCare to provide such transportation, provided the requested transportation. Bethlehem’s driver, Cal[...]

New Illinois Law Protects Nursing Home Resident Whistleblowers

March 23, 2025

Illinois’ Governor signed into law on March 21, 2025 amendments to Section 5. The Nursing Home Care Act, bychanging Sections 3-209 and 3-602 and by adding Sections 2-120 and 3-125. New 210 ILCS 45/2-120 states: Sec. 2-120. Prohibition on retaliatory action against residents.(a) In this Section[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Rules Chiropractor Can Provide Causation Testimony (But Not A Physical Therapist)

March 23, 2025

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals stated in its January 30, 2025 published opinion: “Under the Public Health Code, our Legislature has authorized licensed chiropractors to make certain diagnoses. Specifically, a chiropractor can evaluate a patient and make a diagnosis of a condition or di[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms Award Of Attorney Fees In Medical Malpractice Offer Of Settlement Case

March 22, 2025

The Court of Appeals of Georgia, in its January 31, 2025 opinion, affirmed the award of $1,990,567.69 in attorney fees and expenses under OCGA § 9-11-68, Georgia’s offer of settlement statute, in a stillborn medical malpractice case. Plaintiff Jullyene Santos Keitt, individually and as the natura[...]

The Doctors Company To Acquire ProAssurance Corporation

March 21, 2025

As per the March 19, 2025 The Doctors Company press release: The Doctors Company, the nation’s largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, and ProAssurance Corporation (NYSE: PRA), an industry-leading specialty insurer with extensive expertise in medical liability, products liability for [...]

California Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Case Filed After One-Year Statute Of Limitations Expired

March 21, 2025

California Code of Civil Procedure section 340.5 mandates that a plaintiff must file a claim for medical malpractice within three years of the date of injury or one year after the plaintiff discovers, or through the use of reasonable diligence should have discovered, the injury, whichever occurs fir[...]

Federal Appellate Court Affirms Plaintiff’s Expert Not Qualified To Testify In Medical Malpractice Case Despite Rule Change

March 20, 2025

On January 13, 2020, Welch, on behalf of Martello’s estate and in her individual capacity, filed suit under the FTCA, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2671–2680, 1346(b). The operative Complaint alleged that the VAMC failed to properly treat Martello’s AAA from the time of its discovery and to diagnose and trea[...]

Washington Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Where Palestinian Plaintiff Alleged Bias

March 19, 2025

Joumana Al Hayek and Nicholas Phillips filed an action against Dr. Kathryn Miles and Northwest OB-GYN, PS, for medical malpractice relating to the delivery of their second child. Although the child was born healthy, Al Hayek’s uterus ruptured during the long painful labor, and she no longer can ha[...]

California Appellate Court Holds Separate MICRA Caps Apply To Wrongful Death And Survival Claims

March 18, 2025

In October 2023, Joely Ng filed a complaint against the Los Alamitos Medical Center, Inc. and certain doctors alleging that Ng’s husband, Kenneth Ng, was admitted to the Medical Center in December 2022 due to a malfunction of his G-tube. In the emergency room, one of the defendant doctors repl[...]

Pfizer Agrees To Pay Nearly $60M To Resolve False Claims Allegations Relating To Improper Physician Payments By Subsidiary

March 17, 2025

The United States Department of Justice announced on January 24, 2025 that that pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. (“Pfizer”), on behalf of its wholly-owned subsidiary Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. (“Biohaven”), has agreed to pay $59,746,277 to resolve allegati[...]

Illinois Supreme Court Rules Plaintiff Did Not Have Standing In Medical Information Data Breach Lawsuit

March 16, 2025

The plaintiff, Rebecca Petta, filed a class-action complaint in the circuit court of Champaign County against the defendant, Christie Business Holdings Company, P.C., doing business as Christie Clinic (“Christie”). The complaint alleged that Christie negligently failed to prevent its pat[...]

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