By Rupa Palanki The United States increasingly faces a crisis in maternal and infant health care. Over 2.3 million American women of reproductive age live in maternity care deserts — counties with little to no access to birthing centers and obstetric care. These deserts often result from rural hospital closures, health care provider shortages, and…
This article will examine the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision in LePage v. Mobile Infirmary Clinic and its consequences for Americans using fertility services.
Targeted restrictions on IVF Provision – or TRIP laws – stand to rob patients of their ability to build their families by compelling physicians to provide less effective, more expensive care.
Don’t be fooled by the savior titles and biased “evidence;” these bills are neither compassionate nor protective.
This troubling decision should worry all those who seek to defend the rights of women in these contexts.
By Alex Stein Alabama Code Section 6–5–482(a) that extends to “all actions against physicians, surgeons, dentists, medical institutions, or other health care providers for liability, error, mistake, or failure to cure, whether based on contract or tort” prescribes, (inter alia) that – “in no event may the action be commenced more than four years after such…
By Alex Stein Ex parte Vanderwall, — So.3d —- 2015 WL 5725153 (Ala. 2015), is a new important decision that defined “medical malpractice” to identify suits adjudicated under special defendant-friendly rules. As I explained here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and in a foundational article on the subject, categorizing a suit as sounding in “medical malpractice”—as opposed to “ordinary negligence,” “assault” or “battery”—determines…
