The plaintiff filed a guarantee of protection of individual constitutional rights (amparo protection) against the Ministry of Health and the Province of Buenos Aires to obtain coverage for the medical treatment that he required. The case was brought by the Federal Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court of Justice because it understood that it …Read more

The plaintiff, Maria Constantina Capizzano de Galdi, filed a guarantee of protection of individual constitutional rights (amparo protection) against the Social Welfare Institute (“Instituto de Obra Social”) in order to restore the medical service that was no longer offered to her. The plaintiff’s medical services were suspended by the respondent by a resolution for failure …Read more

The Union of Belgian Medical Specialists requested the annulment of certain Belgian laws passed in 1998 regarding medical costs and insurance.

Illegal migrants who had applied for regularization were de facto condoned on the territory pending their application, but were not entitled to full social services; they were only entitled to urgent medical care. In contrast, asylum seekers who were appealing a rejection and foreigners residing legally in the country were entitled to full social services. …Read more

The National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance’s Medical Control Service asked the Court of Arbitration a preliminary question on articles 141, 146 and 156 of the Law relating to mandatory healthcare and benefits insurance (“Law”), concerning their potential violation of articles 10 and 11 of the Belgian Constitution, and correspondingly, of article 6 of …Read more

Originally, three individuals living with HIV brought action against Hospital Simón Bolívar and the District’s Secretary of Health for the Hospital’s refusal to provide them with the necessary medications and treatment for their condition upon petitioners’ inability to afford payment of the medications and services. The petitioners claimed violations of their rights to health, life …Read more

Hospital Británico de Buenos Aires, a private health service provider, filled a guarantee of protection of individual constitutional rights (amparo protection) against the Federal State requiring the judiciary to declare that the National Act 24.754 was contrary to articles 14, 17, 28 and 33 of the National Constitution. The law obliged private health service providers …Read more