Law & Disorder: Elderly woman rescued from Jacksonville house fire
Florida Times-Union
While the woman was taken to Baptist Medical Center for observation, firefighters knocked out the blaze as flames started climbing the back wall to the second floor above, Frances said. No one was injured, he said. The cause of the fire is being ...

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PIP fraud law reworked
Tbo.com
But requiring a doctor affiliated with a clinic to have his or her name on the facility's bank accounts and insurance policy is a key enforcement mechanism recommended by the sheriff's office. Here's why: Under current state rules, any medical clinic ...
No More No-Fault? Florida Legislature Tackles Auto Insurance ReformWUSF 89.7 News
Opinion column: We must rid fraud from PIP systemFlorida Times-Union

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Judge sides with SD on medical marijuana
U-T San Diego
Wisdom Organics of Lemon Grove is allowed to deliver medical marijuana under state law, but use and distribution of the drug remains illegal under federal law, Trapp wrote in the ruling Feb. 3. “Further, there is evidence presented that the US Attorney ...
Medical marijuana proponents seek Santa Ana ballot measureOCRegister
Medical Marijuana Collectives In Public Safety Crosshairs Of DebateGazette Newspapers
Getting cardedDetroit Metro Times
San Francisco Examiner -Westword (blog) -Reason Online (blog)
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Rajaratnam Judge Announces Departure From Bench
Bloomberg
Richard Holwell, 65, revealed his departure yesterday in a press release advertising the creation of his new Manhattan law firm, Holwell Shuster & Goldberg. The announcement was circulated by Hellerman Baretz Communications LLC.

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Ohio exec. bankrolling Mass. marijuana question
Boston.com
The plan also calls for the state to register up to 35 nonprofit medical treatment centers around the state to distribute the marijuana. A public relations firm representing the Committee for Compassionate Medicine said the goal of the question is "to ...

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Sheppard Mullin Elects Twelve Attorneys to Partnership
MarketWatch (press release)
He received his JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from University of San Diego School of Law in 2002 and his undergraduate degree from California Polytechnic State University in 1999. Will Chuchawat is a member of the firm's Corporate practice ...

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Report: Pain pills, money from dead people disappeared from Broward County ...
Palm Beach Post
By Brittany Wallman Pain pills from dead people were handled so carelessly at the Broward Medical Examiner's Office that more than 2000 of them have gone "missing," Broward's Office of the Inspector General said in a damning report issued Monday.
Broward inspector general says dead peoples' pain pills "missing'' from ...Broward Politics (blog)

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Whatcom medical examiner opposes bill to stop autopsies for religious reasons
Bellingham Herald
Kline drafted the bill at the request of the Jewish community after a court fight between the Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office and the family of an Orthodox Jew who died while snowshoeing on Mount Rainier in December. The family of Brian Grobois ...

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Orthofix International Moves to Resolve U.S. Government Legal Matters
MarketWatch (press release)
Agreement in Principle Reached for Blackstone Medical, Inc. The Company has reached an agreement in principle with the US Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts to pay $32 million to resolve matters related to the investigation of the ...

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Greenberg Traurig Grows National Pharmaceutical, Medical Device & Health Care ...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Pigott will be based in the Los Angeles office. She was previously a partner at Reed Smith. She represents national and international pharmaceutical and medical device companies in products liability and commercial litigation matters.
Ginger Heyman Pigott Joins Greenberg Traurig's National Pharmaceutical ...MarketWatch (press release)

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