June 2017

  • Read more: CAVEAT HOSPITIA: Suits Alleging Negligent Credentialing Against Hospitals Get Exemption from Tort Reform
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    CAVEAT HOSPITIA: Suits Alleging Negligent Credentialing Against Hospitals Get Exemption from Tort Reform

    By Alex Stein Policymakers and scholars interested in medical malpractice and torts generally should read Billeaudeau v. Opelousas General Hospital Authority, — So.3d —-, 2016 WL 6123862 (La. 2016). In this recent and important decision, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that suits alleging negligent credentialing against a hospital sound in regular negligence, rather than medical malpractice,…

  • Read more: ERISA: A Bipartisan Problem for the ACA and the AHCA
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    ERISA: A Bipartisan Problem for the ACA and the AHCA

    By Allison K. Hoffman On Monday, the Supreme Court decided another case that enhances ERISA’s deregulatory impact, Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton (holding that pension plans maintained by church-affiliated organizations, including hospitals, are exempt from ERISA’s pension protections as “church plans.”). Justice Sotomayor joined the majority opinion but wrote a concurring opinion lamenting its outcome and suggesting that…

  • Read more: Housing Equity Week in Review
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    Housing Equity Week in Review

    By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research Affordable housing was the biggest topic of conversation last week, May 29-June 4. Here’s the week in review for housing equity and the law: Vox published an interactive tool with “Everything you need to know about the affordable housing debate.” It covers issues from “What is…

  • Read more: Wendy Parmet on ‘The Week in Health Law’ Podcast
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    Wendy Parmet on ‘The Week in Health Law’ Podcast

    By Nicolas Terry and Frank Pasquale Subscribe to TWIHL here! Our return guest this week is Wendy Parmet, Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law, Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Director of the Program on Health Policy and Law, and Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Education and Research Support at Northeastern University School of Law.  Professor Parmet is a leading…

  • Read more: President Trump’s Tort Reform
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    President Trump’s Tort Reform

    By Alex Stein President Trump’s budget for Fiscal Year 2018 proposes a thoroughgoing reform of our medical malpractice system [Executive Office of the President of the United States, Major Savings and Reforms, Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2018, at 114 (2017) (hereinafter, the “Budget”)]. The reform’s stated goals are “[to] reduce defensive medicine ……

  • Read more: Between Complacency and Panic – Legal, Ethical and Policy Responses to Emerging Infectious Diseases
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    Between Complacency and Panic – Legal, Ethical and Policy Responses to Emerging Infectious Diseases

    We are pleased to present this symposium featuring commentary from participants in the “Between Complacency and Panic: Legal, Ethical and Policy Responses to Emerging Infectious Diseases” conference held on April 14, 2017, at Northeastern University School of Law.  The conference was sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Law and the American Society for…

  • Read more: The Global Virome Project: Understanding Our Viral Enemies to Create a Safer World
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    The Global Virome Project: Understanding Our Viral Enemies to Create a Safer World

    We are pleased to present this symposium featuring commentary from participants in the “Between Complacency and Panic: Legal, Ethical and Policy Responses to Emerging Infectious Diseases” conference held on April 14, 2017, at Northeastern University School of Law. The conference was sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Law and the American Society for…

  • Read more: Newtown: A Public Health Law Perspective
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    Newtown: A Public Health Law Perspective

    This post stems for the “Healing in the Wake of Community Violence: Lessons from Newtown and Beyond – Film Screening and Panel Discussion,” held at Harvard Law School on April 24, 2017.  By Wendy E. Parmet No man is an islandEntire of itself,Every man is a piece of the continent,A part of the main                 John…

  • Read more: Emergency Preparedness: Is Quarantine All We Have to Offer?
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    Emergency Preparedness: Is Quarantine All We Have to Offer?

    We are pleased to present this symposium featuring commentary from participants in the “Between Complacency and Panic: Legal, Ethical and Policy Responses to Emerging Infectious Diseases” conference held on April 14, 2017, at Northeastern University School of Law. The conference was sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Law and the American Society for…

  • Read more: Harvard Grad Students: Apply Now! Petrie-Flom Center Student Fellowship, 2017 – 2018
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    Harvard Grad Students: Apply Now! Petrie-Flom Center Student Fellowship, 2017 – 2018

    The Center and Student Fellowship The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics is an interdisciplinary research program at Harvard Law School dedicated to the scholarly research of important issues at the intersection of law and health policy, including issues of health care financing and market regulation, biotechnology and intellectual property, biomedical research,…