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Arkansas Senate approves bill banning gender-affirming care for trans minors

JURIST

” The bill would make it unlawful for any physician or other healthcare professional to “provide [or refer] gender transition procedures to any individual under eighteen (18) years of age.”

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Conn. Health Staffing Co. Co-Owner Drops Partnership Suit

Law 360

EDITING//Q TO R--The co-owner of a Connecticut healthcare staffing company has withdrawn a lawsuit against a co-owner accused of plundering from the partnership, a move that leaves untested a sole dissolution claim left standing by a judge who dismissed all other causes of action between the parties earlier this year.

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8 Steps to Be the Rockstar Personal Injury Paralegal

Paralegal Bootcamp

The statute of limitations is a time limit on a particular cause of action. More and more healthcare providers can provide digital records that can save your law firm both time and money to make these types of record requests. Know the Statute of Limitations Period. Develop Templates and Keep Improving Them.

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Supreme Court strikes down Chevron, curtailing power of federal agencies

SCOTUSBlog

The decision will likely have far-reaching effects across the country, from environmental regulation to healthcare costs. Share In a major ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday cut back sharply on the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they administer and ruled that courts should rely on their own interpretion of ambiguous laws.

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Doctor’s Alleged Misrepresentation of Credential’s Falls Outside of HCLA requirements.

Day on Torts

Beginning with the intentional misrepresentation claim, the Court noted that “[g]enerally stated, an intentional misrepresentation in a business setting, the purpose of which is to induce someone to enter into a contractual agreement for professional services, is easily distinguished from the rendering of healthcare services.”

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Supreme Court will decide easement, sentencing cases

At the Lectern

Chico Healthcare & Wellness Centre , where a Fourth District, Division One, unpublished opinion and a Second District, Division Five, published opinion , respectively, affirmed the denial of employer petitions to compel arbitration of PAGA actions. 1916]) in court or in any other forum the parties agree is suitable.”

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Texas sues Planned Parenthood, demands repayment of $10M in Medicaid funding

JURIST

The Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act (TMFPA) was passed in 1995 to establish a cause of action for false claims under the Medicaid program. The healthcare provider responded with a suit against the state and received an injunction in 2017 allowing it to continue to participate in the state’s Medicaid program.