Today’s medical systems move faster, operate at greater scale, and handle a wider volume and variety of ailments than ever before. Doctors have access to vast repositories of medical information and data, all of which are…
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/ Consumer Protection, Health, Professional Malpractice
Seven million women of childbearing age currently reside in counties where there is no hospital-based obstetrics care, birthing center, OB-GYN, or certified nurse-midwife, The New York Times reported last month. Since 2015,…
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/ Family Law, Health, Indigenous Peoples
In the years since enduring the front lines of the Covid pandemic, nurses have been increasingly vocal about the challenges they face in securing adequate working conditions—and the direct correlation between working conditions…
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/ Health, Labor & Employment Law
We live in a world where exciting medical research promises to cure cancer, prevent heart attacks, and push back the effects of aging. Sadly, we also live in a world in which “maternity care deserts” are growing across the…
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/ Civil Rights, Family Law, Health, Insurance
Polypharmacy is Medspeak for taking more than one prescription medication at a time. About one in five Americans over age 49 is a polypharmicist, of sorts…
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/ Personal Injury
A recent New York Times article reported that dozens of spine surgery patients at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center were treated with a product that was not approved for use in such procedures. Burst Biologics,…
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/ Health, Products Liability, Science, Computers, & Technology
Corporations produce more than 400 million metric tons of plastic per year. With that number set to triple by 2060, the growing amount of microplastics in the environment is of increasing concern to public health. Microplastics…
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/ Environmental Law, Health, Personal Injury, Toxic Torts
The healthcare industry grapples with a pervasive issue of providers overcharging insurers for medical procedures performed on their patients. To combat this, insurers have turned to MultiPlan—a data analytics firm that…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection, Health, Insurance
As the inherent risks of social media use become more broadly understood, pressure is building on government bodies at every level to enact effective regulations. There has been some action at the federal level: both the…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
During a keynote speech at a conference at Seattle University School of Law in early March, Rachel Rossi, director of the Justice Department’s Office for Access to Justice, proclaimed that “Access to justice means language…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
When AI innovator OpenAI released ChatGPT in November of 2022, it sent shockwaves through the world, from tech leaders to academia. Quickly, stories surfaced of people using ChatGPT to “cheat,” from students turning in papers…
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/ Civil Procedure, Law Practice Products & Services, Science, Computers, & Technology
When the CEOs of the biggest social media companies were brought before Congress in January to answer for the devastating effects of social media on young people, Mark Zuckerberg turned heads by turning his own and apologizing…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Adult Survivors Act, signed into law by New York Governor Kathy Hochul in May 2022, created a one-year lookback window for individuals who experienced sexual abuse after they turned 18 years old. From November 2022 to…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Criminal Law, Personal Injury
In 2020, over 142 million prescriptions for opioid medications were filled in the U.S. That same year, 16,416 people died from overdoses on prescription opioids—a 376% increase from 1999…
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/ Health, Personal Injury, Science, Computers, & Technology
Crafting the perfect medical device is never an exact science—but a patient should never suffer because of defects in a product that was intended to improve their quality of life. Determining whether a device manufacturer or…
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/ Health, Products Liability, Science, Computers, & Technology
