Health Law

Arguably no other area of interdisciplinary law affects the daily lives of the general public and, in turn, your clients, more than health law. Moreover, healthcare has become big business with the rising cost of quality medical care, prescription drug coverage, and the need for long-term health care solutions for an aging population. Legal matters frequently arise from the denial of Social Security benefits to the maze of options available for small businesses that are required to provide healthcare insurance coverage to their employees. Click on the links below to also learn about how to better represent your clients seeking Medicare coverage or how to make your company’s health benefits work for its employees.

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Brain Injury: Proving a Lifetime Disability

Head injuries bring more than 400,000 people to hospitals every year. Approximately three-quarters are diagnosed as having suffered a mild to moderate injury - injuries that can be subtle, persistent, and potentially long term. Demographically ...
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Brownfields And The Redevelopment Of Contaminated Property

Contaminated industrial and commercial property, common in urban and suburban areas, have been underutilized due to the environmen-tal liability associated with these parcels. These properties typically blight the local landscape resulting in lost ...
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Brownfields, Environmental Justice, and Indian Lands:The Future of Real Estate Development in New Mexico

A look at the land development options in the Albuquerque metropolitan area illustrates that brownfields initiatives, the environmental justice movement, and leasing and development of Indian lands may become increasingly significant components of ...
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Brownfields Revitalization

The cleanup and revitalization of urban "brownfields" represents one of the most exciting, and most challenging, environmental and urban initiatives in the nation. Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or underused industrial and commercial properties ...
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Buchanan Ingersoll Provides Sunscreen: Defending Private, Non-profit Hospital from Sunshine Laws

With help from the Florida Legislature, Buchanan Ingersoll litigators successfully defended Tarpon Springs Hospital Foundation, Inc., doing business as Helen Ellis Memorial Hospital in Tarpon Springs, Pinellas County, Florida, from an attempt by the ...
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Can a Physician be Held Liable for Certifying a Seizure History Patient Fit to Drive?

One of the serious late consequences of a head injury is the development of seizures. Jennett notes that 5% of all head injury patients develop late traumatic epilepsy, but the incidence of epilepsy is three times greater in individuals with severe ...
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Can You Corner The Market On Health Care Quality?

While health care delivery has always focused on quality, recent developments on both a national and a regional level are forcing clinical quality to the forefront as a critical issue confronting health care providers. The great impetus for this ...
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CERCLA Amended To Limit Liability, Stimulate Brownfields Redevelopment

President Bush recently signed into law the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act, the first substantial set of amendments to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or ...
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CERCLA Contribution Defendants Held Not Liable if Discharges Are “Insignificant”

A recent decision by the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan dismissed two defendants from a contribution action under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) even though the ...
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CERCLA Liability for Routine Construction Activities

The federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended ("CERCLA") imposes strict liability upon four (4) categories of potentially responsible parties ("PRPs") for any release or threatened release of a ...
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