In a long-awaited decision, the California Supreme Court has firmly rejected a common practice of injecting allegations of elder abuse into disputes over office-based medical care.  

In 2004, Elizabeth Cox saw a podiatrist at Pioneer Medical Group for a painful toenail infection.

While last month’s case showed the balancing test that courts will perform in deciding when to allow government access to a patient’s medical records, a different standard applies to psychotherapy records.

In the ongoing tension between the regulatory oversight of medicine and patient privacy, two new appellate cases tackle the question of when the government’s interest on behalf of the public takes precedent.

Electronic chart narratives containing standard, generalized phraseology will bear poor witness in a subsequent dispute over medical care.

Though an injured worker had not yet pleaded sufficient facts, the Court of Appeal said in a recent ruling the law supports his attempt to try again.