Policing Public Health: Carceral-Logic Lessons from a Mid-Size City
Where a health state is intertwined with carceral logics, enforcement becomes coercive.
Connecticut
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Read more: The Legality and Feasibility of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Children The Legality and Feasibility of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Children
Now that children over the age of 12 can get vaccinated against COVID-19, will immunization become a requirement for returning to school?
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Read more: The National Anti-Vaccine Movement Heads to Hartford to Intimidate CT Legislators The National Anti-Vaccine Movement Heads to Hartford to Intimidate CT Legislators
Legislators should show the out-of-state anti-vaccine movement that intimidation doesn’t work here.
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Read more: Hospitals’ Exposure to Products Liability Suits Hospitals’ Exposure to Products Liability Suits
By Alex Stein The United States District Court for the District of Connecticut has recently delivered an important decision that opens up new possibilities for suing hospitals and clinics. This decision allowed a patient alleging that hospital employees injected her with a contaminated medication to sue the hospital in products liability. Gallinari v. Kloth, — F.Supp.3d…
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Read more: Medical Malpractice and the Middle-Ground Fallacy: Should Victims’ Families Recover Compensation for Emotional Harm? Medical Malpractice and the Middle-Ground Fallacy: Should Victims’ Families Recover Compensation for Emotional Harm?
By Alex Stein Medical malpractice victims are generally entitled to recover compensation for emotional harm they endure: see, e.g., Alexander v. Scheid, 726 N.E.2d 272, 283–84 (Ind. 2000). But what about a victim’s close family member? Take a person who suffers emotional distress from witnessing a medical mistreatment and the consequent injury or demise of her…
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Read more: Medical Malpractice and the “Continuous Act” Exceptions to the Statute of Repose Medical Malpractice and the “Continuous Act” Exceptions to the Statute of Repose
By Alex Stein Cefaratti v. Aranow, — A.3d —- (Conn.App. 2014) is a textbook decision on the “continuous act” exceptions to the statute of repose. This decision of the Connecticut Appeals Court draws an important – but oft-missed – distinction between “continuous wrong” and “continuous treatment.” Back in 2003, the plaintiff underwent open gastric bypass surgery…
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Read more: Lost-Consortium Damages for Same-Sex Spouses Lost-Consortium Damages for Same-Sex Spouses
By Alex Stein Yes, those damages are now available. The Connecticut Supreme Court decision that affirmed their availability, Mueller v. Tepler, — A.3d —- (Conn. 2014), was widely anticipated.