California’s Cartwright Act can reach alleged coordination of out-of-network healthcare reimbursements through a shared pricing platform.
The Fourth District affirmed summary judgment because a physician failed to exhaust hospital peer-review remedies and upheld the related attorney-fee award.
The Ninth Circuit allowed a doctor’s Medicare due-process claim to proceed without full exhaustion while requiring his merits-based agency-authority claim to remain in the administrative channel.
The Northern District affirmed a Social Security disability denial, finding substantial evidence and no harmful error in the medical-opinion analysis.
The Ninth Circuit held that CDCR could not defeat an ADA accommodation claim solely by deeming requested incontinence supplies medically unnecessary.
The Ninth Circuit held that notice of an IVC filter’s malposition and perforation triggered California’s two-year limitations period despite later medical reassurance.
A physician staffing corporation was not a quasi-public institution and owed no common-law fair-procedure hearing before ending a staffing relationship.
Triable issues remained over when an injury from carpal-tunnel surgery manifested, so the malpractice action could not be dismissed on limitations grounds.
Ward v. Mochi Health Corp.: The court allowed most claims to proceed at the pleading stage.
E.R.R. v. Bisignano: The court affirmed the agency.
A Southern District of California judge allowed a provider’s assigned ERISA benefits claim to proceed while narrowing its fiduciary, Medicare, COVID-statute, and state-law theories.
A written citation mentioning the jury right did not establish that an LPS conservatee knowingly waived a jury where neither counsel nor the court explained the right.
A California appellate court revived class-certification efforts over tracking technology on health-risk and patient-portal pages.
A California Court of Appeal held that IHSS caregiver pay received by a parent counts as gross income when the child’s need established eligibility for the services.
A Ninth Circuit memorandum revived key whistleblower claims alleging that drug-company physician payments unlawfully induced federally reimbursed prescriptions.
The Fourth District held that PREP Act immunity covers a conscious decision not to administer a COVID-19 countermeasure when the decision reflects purposeful allocation.
The Ninth Circuit held that political opposition to gender-affirming care alone did not prove DOJ issued an otherwise authorized healthcare subpoena in bad faith.
The Ninth Circuit reversed. The special factors apply when a plaintiff cannot show power in a competitive foremarket and instead claims that a seller later exploited customers locked into a brand. They were unnecessary here because evidence directly supported a conventional claim that dominant forem
A patient’s continuing symptoms after surgery did not establish as a matter of law that she had discovered a negligent incomplete carpal-tunnel release.
An out-of-network provider’s negligent-misrepresentation claim based on a plan administrator’s benefit-verification statements was not preempted by ERISA.
California treatment contacts did not establish personal jurisdiction over claims focused on medication and clinical-trial decisions made in Nevada.
The California Supreme Court rejected negligence liability based solely on delaying a safer alternative to a nondefective drug.
An LPS conservatee may knowingly waive a jury trial through counsel, although the trial court should personally advise the conservatee of that right.
The Ninth Circuit revived a medical employee’s religious-accommodation claims, holding that her allegations plausibly gave the employer notice of a conflict between her faith and its COVID-19 vaccination policy.