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When Patients Leave Against Medical Advice: What Hospitals Miss and Why It Matters

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Delivering high-quality healthcare becomes difficult when patients disregard their doctors’ advice. A patient who chooses to leave the hospital against medical advice (“AMA”) represents a particularly severe case of...more

Carlton Fields

Tenth Circuit Interprets Excess Policy’s Definition of “Medical Incident” as Applying to the Injuries of One Single Person

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On May 2, 2025, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in AdHealth Limited v. PorterCare Adventist Health Systems affirming the lower court’s summary judgment ruling that a hospital’s excess liability insurance...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Fourth Circuit Sets Forth the Requirements for the ‘Loss of Chance’ Provision of West Virginia’s Medical Professional Liability...

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently interpreted the “loss of chance” provision of West Virginia’s Medical Professional Liability Act (the MPLA). In Graham v. Dhar, the Court ruled that a...more

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Fourth Circuit Holds Staffing Agency Nurse to be Hospital Employee for Purposes of Liability Insurance

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Is a nurse employed by a staffing agency and temporarily assigned to work at a hospital considered an “employee” of the hospital and therefore entitled to coverage under the hospital’s liability insurance policy?...more

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