Health Law Reporter Index-Summary

VACCINATIONS

– Cal., veto of bill requiring insurers to reimburse entire cost of childhood and adolescent vaccines, 1386
– H1N1 virus, proposed CMS guidance, 906
– Vaccine storage, arbitration required for pediatrician whistleblower's contract breach suit (Or. Ct. App.), 411

VENUE

– ERISA, fiduciary seeking declaratory judgment that it complied with disclosure requirements (E.D. Mo.), 1707

VERMONT

– Autism treatment coverage for preschool children, new law, 812
– Internet pharmacy, Medicaid and consumer fraud suit remanded (D. Vt.), 1313
– Peer review immunity, doctors may be questioned about ordinary course of business review of misdiagnosis death (D. Vt.), 250
– Prescription records, law barring sale or use of prescriber-identifiable data unconstitutional (2d Cir.), 1629

VETERANS AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT (VA)

– Hospital security measures matter of agency discretion, no grounds for Federal Tort Claims Act claim (D.P.R.), 306
– Nurse practitioners' pay bias claim based on PAs wage scale fails (Fed. Cir.), 20
– Racial bias, terminated African American pharmacist did not identify similarly situated, nonprotected employee (6th Cir.), 1209
– Sex discrimination and retaliation claims by radiology technologists fail (1st Cir.), 1772
– Sleep apnea devices, sale to VA, relevant market (E.D. La.), 1268

VIOLENCE

– Health care facilities, Joint Commission warning, 817
– N.Y., felony to assault nurses, new law, 1175

VIRGIN ISLANDS

– Abstention proper in suit by physician against territorial licensing board (3d Cir.), 100; (U.S., rev sought), 571; (rev den), 838

VIRGINIA

– Carilion Clinic sale of Center for Surgical Excellence, FTC divestiture requirement, 447
– Demoted former university school of medicine administrator's claims fail (4th Cir.), 131
– 11th Amendment, state agency barred from seeking medical records of mentally ill individuals who died at state treatment facility (U.S., rev grant), 878; cases pending as new term begins, 1307
– Expert witnesses, state law requiring active clinical practice, testimony on treatment for shingles pain allowed (E.D. Va.), 815
– Health care reform

– – State attorney general's suit tied to state anti-mandate law (E.D. Va.), 496; DOJ response, 770; Va. attorney general opposes motion to dismiss, 830; motion to dismiss denied, 1099; matter of liberty, Cuccinelli says at forum, 1487; individual mandate unconstitutional violation of Commerce Clause, 1735
– – Unconstitutional, Va. federal court ruling, BNA Insights, 1793
– – What's next for reform law after court strikes down individual mandate?, BNA Insights, 1759

– Health information data breach notice, new law, 599
– Parent company dismissed from FCA case, no proof of involvement in subsidiaries' juvenile psychiatrist facility alleged Medicaid reimbursement scheme (W.D. Va.), 1096
– Sexual harassment, no wrongful discharge claim against supervisor who harassed (W.D. Va.), 1132
– Solvay off-label marketing alleged, documents from state-issued investigative demands, use by qui tam relators (S.D. Tex.), 1058
– Telemedicine, new law requires HMOs and health insurers to cover, 503