Maryland Medical Law Report Legal news for the medical community

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed to struggle on Monday over whether some of the nation’s largest hospitals should be allowed to sidestep federal laws protecting pension benefits for workers. Justices considered the cases of three church-affiliated nonprofit hospital systems ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky’s new law requiring doctors to conduct an ultrasound exam before an abortion, and then try to show fetal images to the pregnant women, came under withering attack Thursday in federal court. An American Civil Liberties Union ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — An Aiken County jury has returned a $13.75 million verdict in favor of an Aiken woman who had to have three limbs amputated after nurses at Aiken Regional Medical Center improperly administered drugs that can reduce the ...

RICHMOND, Va. — A physician facing the Virginia Board of Medicine had the right to appear as an expert, the Virginia Court of Appeals said on March 14, but the board’s violation of that right did not spare the doctor ...

ST. LOUIS – The family of a man who suffered brain damage and death after complications emerged during the insertion of a tube into his trachea won $1.75 million from a Kansas jury. “They took the young man to the ...

PHOENIX — A judge on Monday awarded $2.5 million to a military veteran who said that his now-terminal cancer would have been curable had the Veterans Administration hospital in Phoenix diagnosed it sooner. U.S. Magistrate Judge Michelle Burns ruled a ...

JUNEAU, Alaska — Gov. Bill Walker on Monday proposed additional steps aimed at addressing opioid abuse in Alaska, including pain management training for medical providers and limits on initial prescriptions. The proposal is the latest from Walker, who, in a ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. — A pair of bills that would make Nevada the fifth state to allow women to access 12-month supplies of birth control drew hours of testimony at the Legislature on Monday. Dozens of people attended hearings on ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Maine Sen. Angus King is joining a group of legislators who want to allow safe importation of prescription drugs into the U.S. King, an independent, is helping introduce a bill designed to lower the cost of the ...

LANSING, Mich. — Bipartisan legislation that would increase payments to medical providers for treating sexual assault victims is advancing in Michigan’s Legislature. The Senate unanimously sent the bills to the House Thursday. One measure would require the Crime Victim Services ...