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Physicians Jury Instructions

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Health Care

Trial Court Erred in Refusing Non-Pattern Loss of Chance Instruction: Hinshaw's Annual Guide to Key Illinois Medical Malpractice...

Must a physician obtain informed consent to discharge? Is the long-form proximate cause instruction sufficient in "loss of chance" theory cases? Jill M. Bailey, Individually and as Independent Representative of the Estate...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

11th Circuit’s Decision in AseraCare: Important in Determining When Clinical Judgment Regarding Medical Necessity Can Result in an...

• Reasonable disagreement among clinicians, by itself, does not result in a false claim. • Clinical judgment must be objectively false to constitute an FCA violation. • A clinical judgment may only be objectively false...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Silver Conviction Vacated Due To Jury Instructions

Yesterday the Second Circuit (Cabranes, Wesley, Sessions, D.J.) released an opinion vacating the conviction of Sheldon Silver and remanding the case to the district court for further proceedings including a retrial. The...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Informed Consent Ruling May Affect Your Business

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In a 4-3 decision, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, overturning a Superior Court’s order, ruled that a jury could not consider information provided by the physician’s qualified staff in deciding whether a physician obtained...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Court Dismisses Major False Claims Act Case Against Hospice Provider: Ruling Mere Difference of Medical Opinion is Insufficient...

On March 31, 2016, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama in U.S. ex rel. Paradies v. AseraCare, Inc. dismissed a major False Claims Act case against a national hospice provider after ruling...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Appellate Court Notes

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Appellate Court Advance Release Opinions - AC36506 - Sidorova v. East Lyme Board of Education - Due to budget cuts, the Board of Education laid off the plaintiff who was a tenured French teacher. She sued for...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Tuomey’s Appeal of $237M False Claims Act Judgment Denied by the Fourth Circuit

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In This Issue: - Background - Tuomey’s Second Appeal to the Fourth Circuit - The Trial Court’s Grant of a New Trial - Tuomey’s Request for Judgement as a Matter of Law on the Stark Law and FCA Issues ...more

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