Law Technology

Patient Safety: University of Iowa health workers taken to task for violating hospital HIPPA rules.
Seven University of Iowa workers were suspended and one was fired after an internal privacy investigation indicated the hospital’s privacy policy had been broken. Even within the hospital patient privacy is maintained...

Your Medical Records - HIPPA Rules About Medical Records [del.icio.us]

Confidentiality in Settlements
There's a new RAND paper at SSRN, written by James Anderson of that organization, discussing a situation in which not requiring (indeed, not permitting) confidentiality in settling mass tort cases may be beneficial to defendants...

Restraint of Trade in Market for Warhol Works
43(B)log: "Doubled Denied, denied in part": Simon-Whelan v. Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 2009 WL 1457177 (S.D.N.Y.) Simon-Whelan, as putative class representative for art buyers, alleged that the Foundation and various defendants violated state and federal antitrust laws by conspiring to restrain and monopolize trade in the market for Warhol works...

Us Ohioans Pay Too Much for Our Medical Records
    Health care costs in the United States are rising at an alarming pace.  Millions of Americans cannot afford adequate health care.  Adding insult to injury, Ohio authorizes doctors, hospitals and medical records services to charge us for OUR medical records!  Ohio permits our health care providers and copying services to charge us as much as $2...

GM Sale Objections
I have not covered the GM objections with the same intensity as I did in Chrysler, in part because the vast bulk of the objections raise the very same issues. For example, I'm sure most Credit Slips readers know how...

National Practitioner Data Bank Fact
NPDB identifies unprofessional healthcare practitioners

Military Veterans Benefits
How to obtain full range of benefits for veterans and dependnets

Military Veterans Benefits, Part 2
Training, Healthcare, and Death Benefits

Aetna Life Insurance
Houston Woman Denied $426,000

Search Engine Optimization Claims
Web based company pays over $150,000 settlement in Internet lawsuit.

Repossessed car wins $700,000 Settlement
A class action lawsuit that was brought against Virginia Beach-based Tidewater Finance Co., alleging that the company had questionable repossession practices, has been settled.

MRI Health Risks
alleging gadolinium based contrast agents pose health risks.

WellPoint and RightCHOICE Insurance Faces Class Action
WellPoint Insurance Faces HIPPA Violations Class Action

Medical Technology
Ventana Medical Systems Inc. pays CytoLogix Corp. $49 million patent infringement settlement.