Posted By: Kelly Schoening | email: kschoening@dbllaw.com
Severance Agreements are commonplace due to the tremendous benefits they provide. A severance agreement, if drafted properly, provides a release against future lawsuits or claims by employees. This can save a company thousands of dollars that might otherwise have been spent defending even a claim that has no merit. Any company that has experienced employment litigation knows the
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Posted By: James Dietz | email: jdietz@dbllaw.com
For years, federal and state laws have prohibited hospitals from giving physicians any payments or gifts with the intention of inducing patient referrals. These rules, which include the anti-kickback law and the physician self-referral law (the “Stark” law) are so restrictive, they have led one commentator to observe that health care “is the only business
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Posted By: DBL Law | email: news@dbllaw.com
Here’s a real-life scenario to ponder. Your mother has passed away of a rare cancer. You find yourself the executor of her estate. Your mother’s marriage to your step-father did not thrive, but she and your step-father never divorced. Upon your mother’s death, you discover she wrote your step-father out of her will. You and your siblings were never close to
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Posted By: DBL Law | email: news@dbllaw.com
By Jim Hannah, Enquirer staff writer
COVINGTON – The mother of a child born with brain damage lost a $120 million medical malpractice lawsuit Wednesday in Kenton Circuit Court.
A jury deliberated about eight hours before returning a nine to three verdict in favor of St. Elizabeth Medical Center South and Dr. Jerald Furer.
The decision ended the five-week trial inwhichGeoffreyFieger, a Michigan lawyer best known for representing assisted-suicide proponent
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