PORTLAND, Maine (Legal Newsline) – The Maine Supreme Court recently refused to uphold a two-year suspension against a nurse who was accused of professional misconduct for releasing a disoriented, sparsely dressed patient into a snowstorm in 2008. The patient died just feet from the hospital.
AUGUSTA, Maine (Legal Newsline) - The Maine Supreme Court has modified the applicable burden of proof for insurance coverage in a "scope of consent" motor vehicle accident case in the light of the policy change signaled by Maine's enactment of compulsory liability insurance.
Jabar AUGUSTA, Maine (Legal Newsline) - The Maine Supreme Court, in a ruling last week, remanded a lawsuit filed against a company for its not-so-boneless turkey product.
Silver AUGUSTA, Maine (Legal Newsline) - The Maine Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a jury could "rationally find" that a roadside sign proximately caused a man's motorcycle accident.
Saufley AUGUSTA, Maine (Legal Newsline) - The Maine Supreme Court, in a ruling last week, declined to answer a set of questions posed by the state House of Representatives regarding state Treasurer Bruce Poliquin's personal business dealings and finances.
Saufley AUGUSTA, Maine (Legal Newsline) - The Maine Supreme Court said in a ruling last week that an insurer had no duty to indemnify an owner of a company it insured after he assaulted another motorist in an act of road rage.
AUGUSTA, Maine (Legal Newsline) - The Maine Supreme Court last month upheld a ruling by the state's superintendent of insurance that a health insurer's proposed rate increase was excessive.
AUGUSTA, Maine (Legal Newsline) - The Maine Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hold that a lower court "exceeded its discretion" in not finding loan servicer GMAC Mortgage in contempt when it sanctioned Fannie Mae for submitting a bad faith affidavit.
Mills AUGUSTA, Maine (Legal Newsline) - The Maine Supreme Court sided last week with the state Attorney General's Office in an appeal by a fuel delivery business for its failure to fulfill its prepaid delivery contracts.
Saufley AUGUSTA, Maine (Legal Newsline) - The Maine Supreme Court, in a ruling last week, upheld the judgment of a jury determining the installer of an overhead garage door was not liable for a man's injuries.
AUGUSTA, Maine (Legal Newsline) - The Maine Supreme Court, in a ruling last week, upheld the state superintendent of insurance's decision to reduce a proposed health insurance rate hike.
AUGUSTA, Maine (Legal Newsline) - The Maine Supreme Court said a lower court did not err in dismissing a couple's Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, claim against a hospital.
AUGUSTA, Maine (Legal Newsline) -- The Maine Supreme Court, in two separate opinions filed last month, upheld the state Board of Environmental Protection's decision to issue permits for the construction of two wind energy farms.
AUGUSTA, Maine (Legal Newsline) - The Maine Supreme Court has vacated the judgment of a lower court in the case of an operating room nurse who says her termination was in violation of the state's Whistleblower Protection Act.
AUGUSTA, Maine (Legal Newsline) - The Maine Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, has ruled that a group of consumers do not need to be compensated for time and effort they put into cleaning up the damage caused by data thieves.
