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Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

New York Requires 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Information Shared and Added to College Student ID Cards

This week, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Student Lifeline Act amending the New York Education Law to require that degree-granting higher education institutions educate students, faculty and staff about New York’s 9-8-8 Suicide...more

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The U.S. Mental Health Crisis and the Workplace

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Real World Impact: This is the first in a series of Alerts that will provide guidance to employers on navigating the complicated mix of concerns that can arise when dealing with employee mental health issues....more

Marshall Dennehey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Held that Suicide Is Not a Legitimate Basis for Recovery in Wrongful...

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Sullivan v. Truist Bank, 2024 WL 422667 (E.D. Pa. Feb. 5, 2024) - The plaintiff-estate brought an action against the defendant-bank that raised negligence, vicarious liability, wrongful death and survival action claims. The...more

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Incorporating AI to Address Mental Health Challenges in K-12 Students

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The National Institute of Mental Health reported that 16.32% of youth (aged 12-17) in the District of Columbia (DC) experience at least one major depressive episode (MDE). Although the prevalence of youth with MDE in DC is...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Surviving the Second Semester Blues

UNDERSTANDING SECOND SEMESTER BLUES - The second semester of college is considered to be the toughest. The second semester brings with it feelings of homesickness, stress related to new and more challenging courses, doubt...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

The Robins Kaplan Justice Report - Vol. 18, No. 1

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Robins Kaplan Secures Historic $12.2 Million Settlement in a Section 1983 Jail Deliberate Indifference Case - Scott County Jail officials failed to report detained man’s injuries and allowed video evidence to be deleted. ...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Will the Crumbley Case Affect Our Approach to Household Guns?

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Gun regulation is a huge debate in America. Pew Research reported in September that 60% of Americans want greater gun regulation while 30% believe the current regulations are reasonable and 10% say the restrictions are too...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] Leveraging Medicaid to Support Children and Youth Living With Complex Behavioral Health Needs - November 8th, 1:00 pm -...

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the serious and growing mental health and substance use disorder crisis gripping children and youth in the United States. The situation is particularly serious for young people who are stuck...more

International Cannabis Bar Association...

[Event] Cannabis Law Institute 2023 - June 8th - 10th, Washington, DC

Don’t miss your opportunity to attend Cannabis Law Institute 2023! From June 8th to June 10th, INCBA will host our marquee event at GW Law in Washington, DC. Register now for a multi-day immersive educational and networking...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Insurance Update - January 24, 2023

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It was a busy end to the year, as courts handed down several key insurance decisions before ringing in 2023. The Ohio Supreme Court considered the contours of “direct physical loss or damage” in two separate decisions –...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Trial Court Finds Harvard Satisfied Suicide Prevention Duty

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In one of the few cases to apply the student suicide prevention duty first recognized by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Nguyen v. MIT, 479 Mass. 436 (2018), a state trial court recently found that Harvard...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Parents of Stanford Student Allege Disciplinary Process Caused Suicide

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On March 22, 2022, Katie Meyer, a 22-year-old senior and goalkeeper on Stanford University’s women’s soccer team, died by suicide. Last week, her family filed a lawsuit alleging that the school’s harsh disciplinary procedures...more

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U.S. launches 988 hotline for callers with mental health emergencies

Federal officials have launched a new 988 number for callers with suicidal thoughts or other mental health emergencies, hoping that the public adopts this three-digit alternative and finds it as familiar and useful as 911 has...more

Console and Associates, P.C.

The Growing Number of Social Media Lawsuits Highlights the Risks of Social Media Self-Harm and Addiction Among Children and Teens

Because of technology, kids today are, in many ways, growing up in an entirely different world than their parents did. While some of these differences are for the better, the technology that affects kids’ lives on a daily...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] Actions and Strategies to End the Nation’s Drug Overdose Epidemic - February 7th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

The nation’s overdose and death epidemic continues to get worse, but policymakers and other stakeholders have yet to fully embrace evidence-based solutions to help those with a substance use disorder (SUD), patients with pain...more

International Lawyers Network

Time for a Mental Health Check-in

Here we are, seventeen months (for most of us) into the pandemic and one of the best metaphors I read for this a few months ago was that we may all be in the same sea, but we’re all in different boats. Some people are living...more

Maynard Nexsen

Mental Health, Substance Use, and Family Distress: COVID-19’s Penumbra

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On June 7, 2021, Governor Henry McMaster declined to extend the public health emergency declaration related to the coronavirus in South Carolina. However, data indicates the long-term effects of the pandemic are far from...more

Brooks Pierce

New Law Requires School Districts to Address Growing Suicide Rate in Youth

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In the latest Annual Report on Child Deaths in North Carolina(link is external), child deaths reached an all-time low in 2018. However, death by suicide has reached its highest rate ever. Suicide is the second leading cause...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Eleventh Circuit Approves Employer's Extended Leave Requirement Following Suicide Attempt

We occasionally receive questions from employers about employees who have threatened or even attempted suicide. While these issues first involve making sure that the employee is safe and receiving appropriate care, questions...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Family Problems Are The Problems. Politics Are But A Diversion.

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If you were home last week or this week, the television screen has lit up with some of the most rancorous debate I have seen in my lifetime. This is saying something because I was around for the summer of 1968 when the world...more

K&L Gates LLP

K&L Gates Triage: Michael P. V. BCBS Of Texas

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In this week’s episode, Gary Qualls discusses a recent case decided in the Western District of Louisiana, which highlights how the application of the arbitrary and capricious standard as applied to payor coverage...more

Burns & Levinson LLP

Safeguarding Your Mental Health During and After Divorce

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Many people going through divorce experience feelings of fear, sadness, loss and depression. Out of concern for the impact seeking help for these feelings may have on custody disputes, some people choose not to seek help,...more

International Lawyers Network

It's Okay to Breakdown

I’ve been ruminating on this post for a few days, as I struggled to decide what to blog about this week. This is a tough and heavy topic, but I finally settled on discussing it because it *is* so important, particularly at...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Compliance Perspectives: Healthcare Compliance at the Border

Laws like EMTALA and HIPAA don’t just apply to US citizens. They apply to everyone. That both keeps things simple and adds complexity when it comes to undocumented immigrants. As Lesley Anne Durant, Senior Corporate...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

French Labor News - April 2020

This is the first issue of our monthly newsletter detailing recent important legislative developments, case law and events regarding labor law in France. This edition focuses on recent decisions rendered by French courts,...more

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