New York is poised to become the twelfth state in the country to authorize medical aid in dying with a physician’s prescription for lethal medication to be self-administered by the patient. On June 9, 2025, the New York...more
7/18/2025
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A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) triggers a question as to whether the standard of care to evaluate claims for medical malpractice should be changed. For decades, the New Jersey Model...more
The January 30, 2025 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine contains an article entitled “Providing Interstate Telehealth Abortion Services to Patients in Restrictive States.” In the second sentence, the authors write:...more
2/14/2025
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In another in the seemingly endless series of decisions parsing the interpretation of the statutory requirements for an affidavit of merit in medical liability claims, on January 22, 2025 the New Jersey Supreme Court issued...more
1/31/2025
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Statutory Interpretation
On April 17, 2020, the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs announced the specifics of a program authorized by Governor Murphy’s April 1 Executive Order 112 related to the temporary licensure of foreign licensed...more
On March 20, 2020, the Attorney General of the State of New Jersey and the Director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs announced that the requirements for healthcare professionals, including physicians, licensed...more