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Michigan Pain Doctor Convicted In $100 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

November 8, 2021

A federal jury in the Eastern District of Michigan convicted a Michigan doctor on September 22, 2021 for his role in masterminding and executing a complex scheme to defraud Medicare and other health insurance programs by administering medically unnecessary spinal injections in exchange for prescript[...]

Massashusetts Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment Against Pro Se Medical Malpractice Plaintiff

September 27, 2021

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Appeals Court stated in its unpublished Memorandum and Order entered on September 1, 2021: “Representing himself, Cook pursued a range of claims implicating the adequacy of his informed consent, and possible malpractice or misconduct in both the administration[...]

Manhattan Pain Management Doctor Sentenced To 210 Months In Prison For Oxycodone And Fentanyl Prescriptions

July 31, 2021

On July 8, 2021, Gordon Freedman, a doctor who practiced in New York, New York, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 121 months in prison for participating in a scheme to receive bribes and kickbacks in the form of fees for sham educational programs (“Speaker Programs”) from pharmaceutica[...]

Medical Director Of Maryland Pain Management Practice Pleads Guilty To Accepting Kickbacks

June 26, 2021

The U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland announced on June 10, 2021 that 65-year-old Howard Hoffberg, M.D. (“Hoffman”) pleaded guilty on June 9, 2021 to the federal charge of conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statutes in connection with a scheme to accept payments from a phar[...]

Montana Supreme Court Overturns Negligent Homicide Convictions Of Opioid-Prescribing Doctor

October 15, 2020

The Supreme Court of the State of Montana (“Montana Supreme Court”), in a 4-3 decision filed on September 16, 2020, overturned the negligent homicide convictions of a former Montana doctor who was charged with distributing dangerous drugs outside the course of a professional practice to [...]

Florida Pain Clinic Agrees To Pay $41M To Settle Unnecessary Urine Drug Testing Claims

June 5, 2020

The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida announced on April 15, 2020 that a Florida pain clinic and associated other defendants have agreed to pay a total of $41 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act for billing Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, and other fede[...]

Iowa Medical Malpractice Jury Returns $7.36M Verdict For Man Who Lost Feeling Below The Waist

August 6, 2019

On July 31, 2019, after a one-week trial, an Iowa medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a 65-year-old man who lost feeling below his waist as a result of a cervical facet radiofrequency nerve ablation procedure in December 2014 that was intended to relieve his pain. The Iowa medi[...]

U.S. Expands Efforts To Fight Opioid Epidemic To Unscrupulous Dispensing Pharmacies

February 22, 2019

The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed on February 8, 2019 a civil complaint filed in the Middle District of Tennessee against two pharmacies, their owner, and three pharmacists, to stop them from dispensing controlled substance medications, including powerful opioids that have been linked to abuse[...]

Arizona Supreme Court Applies Federal Preemption To Preclude State Law Failure To Warn Claim Involving Pain Pump

December 20, 2018

The Supreme Court of the State of Arizona (“Arizona Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on December 18, 2018 that the plaintiff’s pain pump failure to warn state law claims were preempted under federal law (i.e., federal law preempts a failure-to-warn claim predicated on a me[...]

FDA Issues Safety Communication For Pain Pump Medications

December 9, 2018

On November 14, 2018, the FDA issued a safety communication in which it warned that patients undergoing treatment or management of pain who are given pain medicines in the spinal fluid (intrathecal administration) that are not FDA approved for use with the implanted pump may be subjected to addition[...]

Louisiana Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment Against Medical Malpractice Plaintiff

April 9, 2018

In its opinion dated March 14, 2018, the State of Louisiana Court of Appeal, Third Circuit (“Louisiana Appellate Court”) affirmed summary judgment in favor of the Louisiana medical malpractice defendant orthopedic surgeon and affirmed dismissal of the Louisiana medical malpractice plaint[...]

Georgia Supreme Court Holds Ordinary Negligence Jury Instruction Improper In Medical Malpractice Case

March 22, 2018

The Supreme Court of Georgia (“Georgia Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on March 5, 2018 that a very strong case of medical malpractice does not become a case of ordinary negligence simply due to the egregiousness of the medical malpractice, and the Georgia Court of Appeals erre[...]

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