The Ninth Circuit reversed summary judgment for Catholic Health Initiatives, because an ERISA plan may not pay for medical and surgical patients’ stays at licensed skilled nursing facilities while denying the same benefits to mental health patients for their stays at residential treatment facilities.
Read moreA patient claims in court that a psychiatrist at San Ysidro Health sexually battered her while treating her, and that “eight victims have come forward with similar allegations” against him.
Read moreA divided Texas appeals court reaffirmed Wednesday its denial of an inmate’s petition to get off death row, finding he is not too intellectually disabled to be executed as suggested by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read moreA federal class action filed against the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services claims the state has not fulfilled its obligation under the Medicaid Act to provide home and community-based mental health services to children and young adults.
Read moreTexas Governor Greg Abbott released a plan to address school and firearm safety Wednesday, calling for a more robust law enforcement presence in schools, getting more teachers licensed to carry firearms, and conducting mental health evaluations to identify students at risk of harming others.
Read moreA federal judge upheld a $2.2 million jury verdict Tuesday for the family of Mohamed Bah, a Guinean immigrant killed by police in 2012.
Read moreBefore they reach adolescence, black children are twice as likely to commit suicide as white children between the ages of 5 and 12, according to a new study.
Read moreIn a federal lawsuit filed Thursday, a class of disabled students, including one that considered suicide, accused Stanford of forcing them off campus and treating them like a “legal liability.”
Read morePlaying music that is personally meaningful to Alzheimer’s sufferers could help alleviate the anxiety associated with dementia, according to research published Friday in The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Read morePhysical activity can reduce a person’s chances of developing depression, according to a new study.
Read moreThe European Union Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that someone who has been tortured in their home country is eligible for asylum if they face a significant risk of being deprived of physical and psychological health care back home.
Read morePeople suffering from hay fever or asthma face a 166 percent higher risk of developing psychiatric disorders, according to a new study that is the first to propose a link between common allergies and mental illness.
Read moreAttorneys for a hospital whose schizophrenic patient murdered an old woman in front of her young grandchild clamored for immunity Thursday at a hearing of the high court in Massachusetts.
Read moreA year and half after she watched in horror as police gunned down her unarmed son outside their apartment, a Boston woman brought federal excessive-force claims Wednesday against the city.
Read moreSummarily reversing a Ninth Circuit decision, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that an Arizona campus policeman who shot a mentally ill woman four times in her driveway is entitled to qualified immunity.
Read moreA woman dubbed a “serial stowaway” for repeatedly trying to sneak onto commercial jets without a ticket has been ruled unfit for trial, a judge ruled Thursday.
Read moreThe California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that colleges owe their students safety and protection from foreseeable violence in the classroom, reversing an appeals court’s finding that UCLA did not have a duty to protect a student who was attacked with a knife by a classmate in a chemistry lab.
Read moreWisconsin approved an $18.9 million settlement Tuesday for the teen who suffered severe brain damage after trying to kill herself in a juvenile prison cell.
Read moreThe Supreme Court opened a window Wednesday for a death-row prisoner in Texas to fund an investigation of his mental health history.
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