ONCOLOGIST TERMINATION: Health Care Quality Improvement Act properly held to immunize hospital and physicians from damages arising out of peer review of suspended oncologist… Menahan affirmed. [Read more…]
Duplicative claims, res judicata v. claim-splitting
DUPLICATIVE CLAIMS: Order denying oncologist leave to amend wrongful termination complaint was not a final judgment for purposes of res judicata, but second suit restating claims still properly dismissed based on prohibition against claim-splitting… Seeley affirmed (other grounds). [Read more…]
$6,952,065 settlements, hospital employees’ health plans
SETTLEMENT: $6,952,065, action for accounting, disgorgement of profits, reimbursement of losses, on behalf of 11,000 employees with health benefit plans at 5 hospitals. [Read more…]
Ineffective assistance, deliberate homicide
INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE claims against trial and appellate counsel by deliberate homicide Defendant properly rejected postconviction… [Read more…]