Maryland Medical Law Report Legal news for the medical community

A Kentucky woman is challenging the constitutionality of a new state law aimed at limiting medical malpractice lawsuits. Lexington Herald-Leader reports Tonya Claycomb filed a lawsuit against the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services on June 29, the same day the ...

Kansas legislators have given final approval to a bill aimed at keeping concealed guns out of state hospitals and other public health facilities. The House approved the measure on a 91-33 vote June 1 only hours after the Senate passed ...

Managers at an eastern Kentucky ambulance service have been indicted for writing false bills that cost a pair of taxpayer-funded health insurance programs more than $1 million. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports a Breathitt County grand jury on June 2 indicted three people ...

The Iowa Supreme Court says the parents of a severely disabled child can sue medical providers for failing to warn of fetal abnormalities that would have caused the mother to have an abortion. The June 2 ruling marks the first ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida will become the first state to issue what’s essentially a birth certificate to women who’ve had miscarriages, an idea that received broad support among Democrats and Republicans despite concerns from the National Organization for Women that ...

WASHINGTON — House Republicans have passed legislation to roll back much of former President Barack Obama’s health care law. The legislation would rework subsidies for private insurance, limit federal spending on Medicaid for low-income people and cut taxes on upper-income ...

MIAMI — Marla Dixon was in the final stage of labor and ready to deliver a baby boy when the obstetrician arrived at her bedside at North Shore Medical Center in Miami. It was not a high-risk pregnancy. But over ...

MADISON, Wis. — A federal judge has struck down a Wisconsin law that allowed the state to detain pregnant women suspected of drug or alcohol abuse, saying the 1998 law meant to protect developing fetuses was unconstitutionally vague. U.S. District ...

WASHINGTON — “Obamacare” is showing surprising staying power, thanks in large part to doctors, hospitals and other health industry players opposing the alternatives that Republicans have proposed. The stories and perspectives they bring to the debate are grounded in the ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. — Aiming to rein in soaring prescription drug prices, an unlikely Nevada coalition is trying to force pharmaceutical companies to disclose how they set insulin prices — and issue refunds to diabetics or their insurance companies if ...