Health

Quebec Radiologists Threatened With Lawsuit for Balking at Ultrasounds

A patients’ rights group in Quebec is seeking to launch a class-action lawsuit against radiologists in the province who are refusing to take on patients at their private clinics. The potential lawsuit is part of the fallout from the Quebec government’s decision last year to cover the cost of private-sector ultrasounds. Since late December, radiologists have been required to forward the costs of …


Judge Temporarily Halts NC Medicaid Expansion Effort

RALEIGH — A federal judge late Saturday temporarily blocked the U.S. government from quickly approving any proposal by North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper designed to expand Medicaid coverage to potentially hundreds of thousands of uninsured people through President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. The order issued by U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan came a day after Republican …


A New Health Lawsuit Compares Big Soda to the Tobacco Industry

The term “Big Soda” gets thrown around a lot to describe how soda companies have a tendency to act like the big, bad oil and tobacco companies who wield immense lobbying power and advertising budgets to match. It might sound like an exaggeration to compare the big three soda companies (The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group) to corporations like Philip Morris, but a …



Lawsuit Challenges Texas Rule Requiring Burial for Aborted Fetuses

A lawsuit was filed against the state of Texas on Monday seeking to halt new rules mandating the burial or cremation of aborted fetal remains. The Texas Department of State Health Services approved the measure last week. The new regulations require women’s health clinics to bury or cremate embryonic and fetal tissue from …


Abortion Activists File Lawsuit to Stop Texas From Enacting Fetal Burial Regulation

The suit was filed Monday by the Center for Reproductive Rights, on behalf of several women’s health clinics and a Texas gynecologist. The document calls the regulation – which is due to take effect December 19 – an “unprecedented invasion of women’s privacy,” claiming it will harm women by causing “trauma, guilt, shame, anger, and feelings of exploitation and violation.” It goes on to state …


Women’s Health Groups Consider Filing Lawsuit to Oppose Texas’ Fetal Remains Rules

Health providers and abortion clinics have less than two weeks to figure out how to comply with Texas’ new fetal remains rules — that is, if a lawsuit doesn’t halt the process first. Amy Hagstrom Miller, founder of abortion provider Whole Woman’s Health, said she is working with the Center for Reproductive Rights on a potential lawsuit opposing the rules. Any lawsuit would need to be …


Alabama Prison System on Trial

On Monday, a U.S. District Court began hearing arguments in a lawsuit over the allegedly inadequate mental health care provided to inmates of the Alabama Department of Corrections. The case is part of a larger suit, Braggs, et al. …


Xerox Corporation (NYSE:XRX) Going to Face Class Action Lawsuit- xG Technology (NASDAQ:XGTI)

Xerox Corporation (NYSE:XRX) [ Trend Analysis ], stock moved down around -0.21% in early session as its gaining volume of 25.8 Million. Khang&Khang LLP released that a class action lawsuit against Xerox Corporation (XRX). Investors who purchased or otherwise acquired shares between April 23, 2012 and October 23, 2015 inclusive, are encouraged to contact the Firm in advance of the December 23, …


Sugar Class Action Against Dole a ‘Policy-Oriented Brief,’ Law Prof Says

A new class action lawsuit against Dole Foods alleges two of its products are advertised as healthy but, in reality, they are high-sugar in content and not healthy at all. Salvador Amaya filed the suit Oct. 18 in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The complaint states in detail that the human body suffers as a consequence of ingesting too …