Emergency Medicine Associates, P.A., P.C. (EMA) is a group of professional physicians dedicated to caring for patients in the Hospital Setting. EMA serves Hospitals and its patients in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.
In France, since 1994, any surrogacy arrangement that is commercial or altruistic, is illegal or unlawful and is not sanctioned by the law (art 16-7 of the Code Civil). The French Court of Cassation already took this point of view in 1991.
In England and Wales, squatting in a residential building became illegal in September 2012, with a maximum penalty of six months in jail, a Â£5,000 fine, or both. In Italy, there is Bussana Vecchia, a ghost town in Liguria which was abandoned in 1887 following an earthquake and subsequently squatted in the 1960s.