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For most lawyers and physicians, “HIPAA-compliant” authorizations have become part of the routine when a patient’s medical records must be disclosed to the parties to a lawsuit.  But the North... Read More

Did the fertility docs who impregnated the California woman who just birthed octuplets commit medical malpractice?  In light of the mother’s reproductive history, that is a question that merits serious... Read More

According to Alexandra D. Lahav , of the Mass Tort Litigation Blog , The Hartford has filed a declaratory judgement action against the Peanut Corporation of America, “presumably to avoid paying out on claims... Read More

The consumerist group, Consumers’ Checkbook/Center for the Study of Services won its lawsuit in 2007 forcing the Dept. of Health and Human Services to release Medicare claims data which would... Read More

I love this story, which comes to us from West Virginia, courtesy of the Charleston Gazette . A local surgeon who managed to generate 124 medical malpractice lawsuits against himself in less... Read More

In a case decided on January 27, 2009, Maldonado v. Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp. ,Novartis seems to have come out on top, to the disappointment of plaintiff, Frank Maldonado, thanks to an unusually... Read More

Mark A. Berman , in today’s New York Law Journal , discusses one of the risks of doing business on the internet via a website:  depending on how solicitous a foreign website is... Read More

The folks at the Drug and Device Law blog share their insights into how lawyers must take the negative press constantly swirling around the FDA into account while engaged in jury selection. ... Read More