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Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Estate Planning Pitfall: You Haven’t Recently Updated Your Powers of Attorney

Health care and financial powers of attorney are critical components of an effective estate plan. Indeed, while much of your estate plan focuses on actions that take place after your death, it’s equally important to have a...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Appellate Court Dismissal on Suit regarding Life-Prolonging Care

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On August 20, 2023, an Indiana Appellate Court dismissed a suit regarding allegedly negligent life-prolonging care rendered to a nonagenarian patient, who could not herself consent. Plaintiff’s complaint alleged that the...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

Conscience Clauses for Health Care Providers

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There has been a lot of news lately about a person’s right to decline to provide a service to another for reasons of conscience. For example, after the U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding marriage equality, the N.C....more

Burns & Levinson LLP

Start Summer Right by Focusing on Health Care Protection

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As long daylight hours continue to lift our spirits, it is not only the sun’s rays that we should protect against this summer. We should also make sure we have our bases covered when it comes to health care and incapacity...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

AMA To Recommend Physicians Be Paid For End-Of-Life Planning

Brace yourself for a reprise of the death panel debate of 2009. The AMA will soon formally recommend to CMS that physicians be paid—or “reimbursed” in health care-speak—for talking with Medicare patients and their families...more

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New Online End-of-Life Planning Tool Now Available to NC Citizens and Health Care Providers

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A new tool is now available for North Carolina citizens and health care providers that will help everyone understand end-of-life health care planning options and processes available under North Carolina law. The new website...more

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