The First DCA set aside the Department of Health’s denial of operating permits for a float tank therapy business, finding the Department improperly relied on an unadopted rule — the ‘2020 Float Tank Code’ — and failed to adequately explain its rejection of the ALJ’s findings.
The Second Department annulled a DOH denial of a Convaid Cruiser stroller for a man with quadriplegic cerebral palsy, finding the denial of the durable medical equipment was not supported by substantial evidence.
Appellate Division grants leave to replead disability discrimination claim for denial of parental NICU access, dismissing vague breach of contract claim against hospital.
Appellate Division affirms workers’ compensation death benefits for physical therapist assistant who contracted COVID-19 while working with nursing home patients and died in May 2020.