Taking Control Of Your Diabetes - Diabetes & the Law: Health Insurance, Employment & the Costs of Care

TCOYD TV: Diabetes & the Law: Health Insurance, Employment & the Costs of Care

Original Air Date - 4.16.2009

Dr. Steven Edelman talks to Kriss Halpern, JD, about stretching health care dollars in a downturned economy. Mr. Halpern answers questions about COBRA, HIPAA, limited insurance plans, state and federal plans, health savings accounts (HSAs) and patient assistance programs. Examining recent court rulings, Mr. Halpern discusses the protections provided people with diabetes by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Is It Murder? - Part 2

Kriss Halpern, JD
TCOYD Newsletter, Vol. 30, 2009

In the last issue we described three hypothetical incidents where a car accident caused by a driver suffering severe hypoglycemia resulted in a death. We left for this issue the question of whether any of the drivers might properly be charged with murder.

Is It Murder?

Kriss Halpern, JD
TCOYD Newsletter, Vol. 29, 2009

I received an email recently from a deputy public defender asking for my thoughts about a case at her office. The DA office was charging her client with manslaughter and offering two years in state prison. The prosecutor was telling her the National District Attorneys Association of criminal prosecutors was looking into charging murder in cases like this; not manslaughter, murder. Murder charges against a person with diabetes suffering hypoglycemia while driving, getting into an accident, and causing a death.

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