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August 13, 2021   
Health Law Weekly

U.S. Court in Virginia Says Health System Must Face Former Employee’s EMTALA Retaliation and Defamation Claims

  • August 13, 2021

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia refused July 23 to dismiss a nurse’s Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) retaliation and defamation claims against the health system that formerly employed her. According to the court, she sufficiently stated her federal and state law claims to survive dismissal.

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