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Selected Recent Court Decisions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2021

Michelle Kohlmeier
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American Journal of Law & Medicine , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , 1999 , pp. 169 - 181
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and Boston University 1999

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1 No. 96-3676, 1999 WL 27438, at *1 (Wis. Jan. 26, 1999).

2 See id. at *4.

3 Id at *1.

4 See id. at* 1-2.

5 See id. at *2.

6 See id. at *3.

7 Id. at *5.

8 Id. at *6 (citing Gorab v. Zook, 943 P.2d 423 (Colo. 1997)).

9 See id. at *7.

10 See id. at *8.

11 See id. at *9.

12 Id.

13 Id. at*3.

1 No. 98-1639, 1999 WL 3940, at *1 (7th Cir. Jan. 7, 1999).

2 See id. at *4. The Fair Labor Standards Act can be found at 29 U.S.C.A. ch. 8, §§ 201-219 (1997).

3 Id.

4 See id. at* 1-3.

5 See id. at *3.

6 See 29 C.F.R. § 533.221(d) (1998).

7 Dinges, 1999 WL 3940, at *1.

8 Id.

9 Id. at *4.

1 F.3d 419 (8th Cir. 1998).

2 See id. at 422. The Americans with Disabilities Act can be found at 42 U.S.C. §§ 12010–12213 (1994).

3 See 42 U.S.C. § 12112(b)(5)(A) (1994).

4 Id. § 12112(d)(4)(A).

5 See Hennenfent, 164 F.3d at 422.

6 See id. at 420.

7 See id. at 421.

8 See id. at 422.

9 See Webb v. Mercy Hosp., 102 F.3d 958, 959–60 (8th Cir. 1996).

10 Hennenfent, 164 F.3d at 422.

11 Id.

1 No. 97-53, 1999 WL 9828, at *1 (U.S. Jan. 13, 1999).

2 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd (1998).

3 See Roberts, 1999 WL 9828, at *2.

4 See id. at *1.

5 See id.

6 See 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd(b).

7 See Roberts, 1999 WL 9828, at *2.

8 See id. (examining Cleland v. Bronson Health Group, Inc., 917 F.2d 266 (6th Cir. 1990), as an authority for the Sixth Circuit's opinion in the case at hand).

9 See id. at *2–3.

10 See id. at *2 n.1.

1 1998 WL 869627, at *1 (10th Cir. Dec. 15, 1998).

2 See id. at *7.

3 See id. at *1. Healthcare America responded to Bossemeyer's suit by filing a declaratory judgment action seeking an adjudication that the service was appropriately denied. Both actions were consolidated into the declaratory judgment action. See id.

4 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001–1461 (1994).

5 Bossemeyer, 1998 WL 869627, at *1.

6 Id.

7 Id.

8 Id.

9 See id. at *2.

10 See 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (a)(1)(B) (1994).

11 Healthcare America Plans, Inc. v. Bossemeyer, 953 F. Supp. 1176, 1192 (D. Kan. 1996).

12 Id. at 1185.

13 See id. (citing Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Bruch, 489 U.S. 101,115 (1989)).

14 See id. at 1189 (citing Chambers v. Family Health Plan Corp., 100 F.3d 818, 826–27 (10th Cir. 1996)).

15 Id.

16 See id.

17 See Bossemeyer, 1998 WL 869627, at *3–4.

18 See id. at *5.

19 See id. at *4.

20 Id.

21 Id. at *5 (quoting Healthcare America. 953 F. Supp. at 1189).

22 Id.

23 Id. at *6.

24 See Timothy S. Jost, Health Care Rationing in the Courts: A Comparative Study, 21 Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 639, 709 n.435 (1998) (“[I]nsurers that follow reasonable procedures and apply reasonable substantive criteria are likely to prevail. Health plans that use independent panels of experts for making decisions, or that rely on the decisions of external technology assessment bodies, or that have generous procedures for grievances and appeals are likely to win.”) (citing Healthcare America, 953 F. Supp. 1176 (D. Kan. 1996)).

25 See Glauser-Nagy v. Medical Mut. of Ohio, 987 F. Supp. 1002, 1015 (N.D. Ohio 1997) (citing Healthcare America, 953 F. Supp. 1176 (D. Kan. 1996), as support for the contention that courts are more likely to grant relief for denial of benefits for a claim on high-dose chemotherapy with peripheral blood stem cell rescue procedure where the cancer is metastatic).

1 119 S. Ct. 710(1999).

2 See id. at 714. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act can be found at 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961–1968(1994).

3 See id. at 715.

4 15 U.S.C. §§ 1011–1015 (1998).

5 Forsyth, 119 S. Ct. at 717.

6 See id. at 714.

7 See id. at 715.

8 See id. at 719.

9 See l5 U.S.C.A. § 1012(b).

10 Forsyth, 119 S. Ct. at 718.

11 See id. at 719.

1 No. 28600, 1998 WL 909756, at *1 (Nev. Dec. 31, 1998).

2 See id. at *5.

3 See id. at *4.

4 See id. at *1.

5 See id. at *4.

6 See id. at *6.

7 See id. at *7.

8 See id. at *8.

9 Id. at*12.

10 F. Supp. 1455, 1460 (N.D. Ala. 1995).

11 Mahlum, 1998 WL 909756, at *13.

12 See id. at *16.

13 See id. at *17.

14 See id. at *19.

15 Id. at *9.

16 See id. at *11.

17 See id. at *12.

18 See Dow Chemical Liability Decision Could Hurt Small Devices Firms—MDMA, Graysheet, Jan. 25, 1999, available in 1999 WL 10788907.

19 Id.

20 See id.