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Three Tennessee Physicians Agree To Pay $4.25 Million To Settle False Claims Allegations

July 20, 2013

On July 2, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that three former physician-partners of a Tennessee cancer clinic have agreed to pay a total of $4.25 million to resolve allegations that they violated the federal False Claims Act by knowingly submitting or causing the submission of false [...]

Tick-Borne Encephalitis Leads To $41,750,000 Verdict

July 6, 2013

On March 27, 2013, after eight days of trial, a Connecticut federal jury returned a verdict in the amount of $41,750,000 in favor of a now 20-year-old New York woman who contracted a very serious disease as a result of a tick bite that she experienced during her high school trip to China that h[...]

U.S. Supreme Court Decision Shields Generic Drug Manufacturers

June 27, 2013

In its 5-4 decision filed on June 24, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States (“Supreme Court”) held that personal injury claims against generic drug manufacturers under design-defect consumer protection state laws that turn on the adequacy of a drug’s warnings are pre-empted [...]

Alabama Lawsuit Alleges Permanent Injuries From NECC’s Contaminated Steroid

June 8, 2013

As part of the continuing fallout from allegedly contaminated steroid injections manufactured by the New England Compounding Company (“NECC”), an Alabama woman has filed a lawsuit against NECC and a local Alabama hospital in which she claims that she received contaminated steroid inje[...]

Medicare Fraud Schemes Result In 89 Charged With $223 Million In False Billings

May 15, 2013

On May 14, 2013, the U.S. Attorney General and the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced that 89 people in eight U.S. cities were charged with participating in Medicare fraud schemes that resulted in about $223 million in fraudulent billings. T[...]

VA Researcher’s Meningitis Death Sparks Federal Lawsuit

May 6, 2013

The family of a 25-year-old medical researcher who died in April 2012 from a rare form of meningitis (Neisseria meningitis) for which he was working on a vaccine as an employee of the Northern California Institute for Research and Education at the San Francisco Veterans Memorial Hospital lab run b[...]

Kentucky $7.25 Million Jury Verdict For Failed Cochlear Implant

April 20, 2013

On April 16, 2013, a federal jury in Kentucky returned a $7.25 million verdict in favor of a little girl whose cochlear implant (a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing) failed due to moisture leakage t[...]

Johnson & Johnson’s Own Analysis: Nearly 40% Of Its A.S.R. Hip Implants To Fail Within Five Years

January 25, 2013

Documents provided by the giant medical products company Johnson & Johnson in a court case in which the trial is scheduled to begin on January 25, 2013 in Los Angeles, California reportedly reveal that Johnson & Johnson anticipated that about 37% of its all-metal hip implants manufa[...]

Medical Malpractice Case Filed Against Colorado Psychiatrist Arising Out Of Aurora Shootings

January 17, 2013

On January 14, 2013, the widow of a man killed in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater on July 20, 2012 during a shooting spree that killed 12 and injured another 70 filed a medical malpractice lawsuit and other claims in the United States District Court in Denver, Colorado against the University[...]

Ohio Hospital And Cardiology Group Agree To Settle Unnnecessary Angioplasty/Stent Allegations

January 15, 2013

On January 7, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the settlement of claims against an Ohio hospital and a group of cardiologists who allegedly performed unnecessary angioplasties and stent placements in patients at the hospital. The hospital, EMH Regional Medical Center (“EMH̶[...]

U.S. Supreme Court To Decide Medical Malpractice Case

January 14, 2013

It is very infrequent that the United States Supreme Court (“Supreme Court”) agrees to decide a medical malpractice case, and even rarer that it agrees to decide a case where the person seeking review is not represented by an attorney. But that is exactly what the Supreme Court has agree[...]

VA Medical Center Medical Malpractice Claim Settled For $500,000

January 8, 2013

The VA Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio has agreed to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by a widow for the death of her husband as a result of alleged medical malpractice for $500,000, which has been approved by a federal judge of the U.S. District Court in Akron, Ohio. The medical malpr[...]

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