The Appellate Court of Illinois for the Third District (the Court) held that a trial court was correct in dismissing a physician's defamation claim against a hospital's chief of staff. The Court found that the statements in question were not defamatory and releases of liability signed by the...
The Supreme Court of North Carolina (the "Court") affirmed a decision by the North Carolina Court of Appeals that certain documents requested by a plaintiff-patient suing a hospital for negligence were not protected from discovery by the state's peer review privilege statute.
The Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey (the "Court") upheld a trial court's dismissal of a physician's lawsuit against Overlook Hospital (the "Hospital") in Summit, New Jersey, because the Hospital and the participants in its internal peer review process...
The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, in an unpublished opinion, granted a hospital and related defendants' motion for summary judgment. The Court dismissed a physician's claims of breach of contract, defamation, and conspiracy to violate her civil rights...
The Nevada Supreme Court (the "Court") upheld, in an unpublished opinion, a lower court's dismissal of an anesthesiologist's lawsuit against MountainView Hospital in Las Vegas, because the Hospital has immunity under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA)....
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (the "Court") granted a hospital's motions to dismiss and strike a cardiologist's lawsuit alleging whistleblower retaliation, interference with economic interests, unfair trade practices, and violations of 42 U.S.C...
For the second time, the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California dismissed a surgeon's lawsuit alleging that a hospital, its medical staff, its parent company, and certain individuals racially discriminated against him by limiting or suspending his...
The Court of Appeals of Ohio in the Eighth Appellate District, County of Cuyahoga (the "Court"), affirmed the grant by a lower court of a patient's motion to compel production of an incident report prepared after the patient suffered injuries in a hospital. The Court ruled...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed a district court's decision to award more than $700,000 in attorneys' fees to a hospital, following the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a physician arising out of the suspension of his medical...
