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The act provides immunity to the State of California and its related entities from being sued. The law immunizes public employees from liability for “instituting or prosecuting any judicial or administrative proceeding” within the scope of their employment, “even if” the employees act “maliciously and without probable cause.” (Cal. Gov. Code, § 821.6)
However, according to the Supreme Court of California, the state's non-economic damages caps are "not a legislative attempt to estimate the true damages suffered by plaintiffs, but rather an attempt to control and reduce medical malpractice insurance costs by placing a predictable, uniform limit on the defendant's liability for noneconomic ...
Eighteen patients — nine who survived and the families of nine who died — are at the center of a $303 million lawsuit against an Oregon hospital where a nurse was accused of replacing fentanyl ...
The civil lawsuit seeks nearly $11.5 million and appears to be the first legal action taken since Medford, Oregon, police confirmed in January that they were investigating reports of drug theft at ...
The nurse sued Tri-State on March 29. She claimed she was led to resign her job at the clinic on July 7, 2022, due to sexual harassment and sexual discrimination and due to retaliation she said ...
Regents of the University of California, 17 Cal. 3d 425, 551 P.2d 334, 131 Cal. Rptr. 14 (Cal. 1976), was a case in which the Supreme Court of California held that mental health professionals have a duty to protect individuals who are being threatened with bodily harm by a patient. The original 1974 decision mandated warning the threatened ...
She is not named in the $303 million lawsuit, but she is facing a different civil lawsuit filed by the estate of 65-year-old Horace E. Wilson, the outlet said. Oregon nurse sued by estate of ...
Carol Burnett v. National Enquirer, Inc. was a decision by the California Court of Appeal, which ruled that the "actual malice" required under California law for imposition of punitive damages is distinct from the "actual malice" required by New York Times Co. v. Sullivan to be liable for defaming a "public figure", and that the National Enquirer is not a "newspaper" for the purposes of ...