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Showing posts with label healthcare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthcare. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Hospitals may track patients online and sell their data without violating state wiretap law, high court rules

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Mike MacKenzie (via Flickr ) CC BY 2.0 State wiretap law does not prevent hospitals from tracking patients on the web and selling their dat...
Sunday, August 4, 2024

Wood wins Rappaport Fellowship

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Rebecca Wood BC Law Rebecca Wood, a survivor of my 1L torts classes, has won a prestigious Rappaport Fellowship in law and public policy. W...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

It's education and healthcare, stupid

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CC0 Pixabay via picryl Experts are puzzled over American discontent while economic indicators ride high. Yet they consistently fail to reco...
Friday, February 3, 2023

Go Red for Women

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Today, February 3, is National Wear Red Day , a project of the American Heart Association (AHA) to commemorate American Heart Month and ra...
Friday, January 27, 2023

We're losing the war on heart disease

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Last week, my wife's life was at risk because we did not understand that women in heart distress do not necessarily experience the sympt...
Friday, October 7, 2022

Reversal in eldercare case highlights limits of qualified immunity, low injury threshold of intentional torts

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Boston police officer assists an elderly pedestrian in 2014. (Alex Klavens CC BY 2.0 via Flickr ) A dispute over elder care occasioned trea...
Sunday, July 3, 2022

Good riddance, covid immigration testing

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I took this photo in Swansea, Mass., back in January 2022 ( CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 RJ Peltz-Steele). The sign well summed up how I was feeling abo...
Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Court: Employer has no free speech right to republish worker healthcare data that state provides conditionally

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Confidential (Nick Youngson Alpha Stock Images CC BY-SA 3.0 ) An employer has no First Amendment right to republish the identity of worker...
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Thursday, October 22, 2020

Opioids, coronavirus add up to dangerous interaction

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pxfuel.com Purdue Pharma will plead guilty to criminal charges in the marketing of OxyContin, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced yeste...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

Court: Family of elder-care resident may use rare 'bill for discovery' to investigate how broken foot occurred

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In an unusual case last week, the Massachusetts Appeals Court allowed a "bill for discovery" to proceed despite its arguable inco...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

Oops. We accidentally linked healthcare to your job.

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mohamed_hassan (pixabay.com) I stand with the rest of the world in awestruck horror of America's stubborn insistence that access to heal...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

Arkansas defense of healthcare law invites Supreme Court justices to weigh in on federal preemption

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The State of Arkansas defended a state healthcare law in the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday . The state argued against federal ERISA and Medicar...
Friday, May 8, 2020

Shielding business from coronavirus torts neglects deep-seated dysfunction in litigation, health insurance

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Amid reopening and the controversy over reopening, American private business is seeking legislative protection against coronavirus-related t...
Wednesday, May 6, 2020

In memoriam: Sam Lloyd, TV lawyer 'Ted Buckland'

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Sam Lloyd in 2009 ( BrokenSphere CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Sam Lloyd played Ted Buckland on Scrubs . Lloyd died one week ago, on April 30. Ted ...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

Mass. appellate courts render two wrongful death opinions in attenuated duty and causation

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Massachusetts appellate courts have rendered two wrongful death opinions in the last two days, both favoring plaintiffs. In Dubuque v. Cum...
Thursday, February 9, 2017

Open Memo re FSA service for Mass. GIC

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For the convenience of my colleagues in Massachusetts Commonwealth employment, I post here the fruits of my recent investigation into the st...
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