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Read MoreA stolen computer led to the North Memorial Health Care of Minnesota paying $1.55 million for a potential violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules.
Read MorePeriodic OCR audits are required by HITECH, which was passed in 2009.
Read MoreThe Smith case was a big win for Georgia insurers and further fortified that the plain language of the policy controls policy coverage.
Read MoreUnder the new law, clinics have to register with the state, and doctors can no longer dispense opioid prescription painkillers from their offices.
Read MoreSimply stated, a prescription does not mean a pharmacist is clear.
Read MoreA California doctor was handed 30 years to life in the death of three patients who overdosed and died.
Read MoreStrong defense is best protection in today's litigious society.
Read MoreA new set of federal rules on prescription narcotic painkillers has hit veterans hard.
Read MoreOn July 28, 2015, the Georgia Court of Appeals reversed itself on the issue of whether lay testimony as to speed, based only on the experience of impact, constituted admissible evidence to defeat summary judgment.
Read MorePhysician Health Programs (PHPs) are state-based plans for doctors with substance abuse or other mental health problems.
Read MoreShould the Court uphold Martin’s argument of off-property liability, this decision will have profound impact on all business owners, large and small.
Read MoreThe solution-and liability insurers should take note-is for the plaintiff to obtain discovery “from the insurer regarding its efforts to contact its insured and its lack of success in securing cooperation.”
Read MoreOn a very basic level, this case is merely a reaffirmation of the broad scope of discovery entitled to litigants but it should also help the defense side of the bar access the records of medical financing companies like ML Healthcare.
Read MoreThe Georgia Court of Appeals has recently decided that the statements contained within a police report are admissible as a business record, even without the officer’s personal testimony.
Read MoreIt is established law in Georgia that when an insurance company is served with a complaint as the plaintiff’s uninsured motorist carrier, the carrier has the option of answering in the name of the defendant, answering in its own name (and raising policy defenses), or filing no answer at all.
Read MoreThus, in cases where the jury may apportion fault, UM carriers must determine their exposure by applying the percentage of fault of each tortfeasor to the total amount of damages, and factoring in the limit of each liability policy individually.
Read MoreThe take-away: property owners should be aware that even when there is evidence of plaintiff’s own negligence, such as deviation from a prescribed path, defendants may still need to prove that they did not set the stage, i.e., in some way entice the guest to the hazard.
Read MoreIn the 6-1 decision penned by Justice Carol Hunstein earlier this month, the High Court found that Myers could have provided the amount of her medical expenses known at the time of her ante-litem notice and simply stated that she was still undergoing treatment.
Read MoreThe topic of apportionment is no stranger to our blog; we have written about the subject on several occasions.
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