Mrs. Torres Puerta (the “Patient”) was affiliated with E.P.S. Coomeva, a Health Providing Entity. (Note: in Colombia, Health Providing Entities are in charge of providing healthcare services to employees, who must subscribe to one of such entities and pay a monthly fee which their employer deducts from their salary). In 2002, The Patient received authorization …Read more

The plaintiff regularly stayed in Germany during part of the year and needed dental treatment. The first treatment was deemed acute and thus paid for by the German version of the Swedish Social Security Insurance Agency (SSIA). Subsequent treatments were deemed not acute and thus were not paid for. The plaintiff sought compensation by the …Read more

Appellant, KZM, was a patient with hemophilia A who became infected with HIV and hepatitis C. Appellant brought action against Shanghai Institute of Biological Products for causing the infection of HIV/AIDS from the medical product in which he was injected. The Shanghai Chang Ning District People’s Court found against the plaintiff in civil verdict No. 1984). …Read more

The dispute concerned the correct interpretation of healthcare statutes. In December of 1988, the Healthcare Institution in Z (the plaintiff) contracted with the Mazowiecki Regional Health Fund (the defendant) to provide healthcare benefits. (The defendant was an entity charged under the Act on Universal Health Insurance (the “Act”) to carry out certain obligations arising from the …Read more

The plaintiff was diagnosed with a severe inflammatory disease, and she was offered treatments at the hospital in Sweden using a common treatment method for her disease.  After ending two rounds of this treatment process (and learning that doctors recommended a further 6 to 12 treatment rounds), the plaintiff had commenced the new treatment method …Read more

The claimant Yvonne Watts brought an action against the Secretary of State for Health claiming that she was entitled to the cost of reimbursement for an operation she underwent in France. Watts was a resident of the United Kingdom. In September 2002, she was diagnosed with osteoarthritis in both of her hips. Soon after, it …Read more

The 939/00 Obligatory Medical Program provided medication to persons suffering from multiple sclerosis and isolated demyelinating syndrome, a precondition of multiple sclerosis. The National Ministry of Health passed a resolution to amend this program. The resolution had the effect of excluding from the program all isolated demyelinating syndrome sufferers and any multiple sclerosis sufferers who had …Read more

The plaintiffs, Mercedes Clelia Barria and Juan Carlos Figueroa, filed a guarantee of protection of individual constitutional rights (amparo protection) and a precautionary measure against the Government of the Province of Chubut and the National Government, both responsible for the Federal Health Program (a , to obtain the continuation of the medical treatment which was essential …Read more