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New Jersey Orthopedic Surgeon Barred From Prescribing Opioids

March 16, 2018

A New Jersey orthopedic surgeon has been temporarily barred from prescribing controlled dangerous substances (CDS) based on allegations he prescribed high dosages of addictive opioid painkillers to his patients for years without a legitimate medical purpose, often while turning a blind eye to signs [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Pain Management Physician’s Discipline For Selling CDS Prescriptions in Parking Lots, Restaurants

December 28, 2017

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) held in its unreported opinion filed on December 13, 2017 that “there was substantial evidence to support the Board’s determination that [the pain management physician’s] prescribing practices, including [...]

Oklahoma Joins Other U.S. States Suing Opioid Manufacturers For The Harm Opioids Have Caused To Its Citizens

September 22, 2017

On June 30, 2017, Oklahoma’s Attorney General filed a lawsuit in state court against four of the nation’s leading manufacturers of opioid pain medication (Purdue Pharma, Allergan, Cephalon, and Janssen Pharmaceuticals), claiming that the effects of the defendants’ deceptive marketing [...]

Two Maryland Physicians And Nine Co-Conspirators Indicted For Running Pill Mills In Maryland

September 7, 2017

The Maryland Attorney General announced on August 10, 2017 that two Maryland physicians and nine co-conspirators have been indicted for alleged unlawful distribution of controlled dangerous substances and running pill mills in Maryland. One of the Maryland physicians has been indicted on 21 counts o[...]

Iowa Physician Charged With Improper Pain Management, Opioid Prescription Abuse

August 17, 2017

On July 20, 2017, the Iowa Board of Medicine (“Board”) filed its Statement of Charges against an Iowa family practice doctor who engaged in pain management, charging him with willfully or repeatedly violating a lawful rule or regulation adopted by the Board when he violated the standards[...]

$17.6M Opioid Malpractice Verdict

July 26, 2017

A Missouri medical malpractice jury awarded the plaintiffs $17.6 million on June 27, 2017 after a seven-day trial in a medical malpractice case against the plaintiff’s former primary care physician who was alleged to have prescribed ever-increasing amounts of opioids for the plaintiff’s [...]

$1M South Carolina Nursing Home Settlement For Pain Medication Stolen From Dying Man

July 15, 2017

A South Carolina nursing home recently agreed to settle nursing home abuse claims that a medical technician who was an employee of the nursing home allegedly stole powerful opioid pain medication (Percocet) prescribed for a 75-year-old resident who was dying a painful death from pancreatic cancer,[...]

New Jersey Doctor Didn’t Wash Hands Between Patients, 41 Patients Suffered Serious Knee Infections

May 31, 2017

A New Jersey doctor reportedly told New Jersey Health Department investigators that she did not follow basic hand washing hygiene procedures between treating patients at a Jersey Shore medical clinic, thereby leading to 41 patients developing septic arthritis of their knees. The doctor allegedly als[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Affirms Physician’s Discipline For Prescribing Over 25,000 Controlled Substances

May 18, 2017

In its unpublished opinion filed on April 25, 2017, the State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) upheld the order of the Michigan Board of Medicine (“Board”) suspending a doctor’s license to practice medicine for six months and a day, renderin[...]

$14.9M Colorado Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Ambulatory Surgery Center For Patient’s Permanent Paralysis

April 26, 2017

On March 23, 2017, a Colorado medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against the defendant ambulatory surgery center for the permanent paralysis suffered by a patient who was given a drug during an epidural steroid injection procedure that the manufacturer of the drug specificity warned agai[...]

Texas Physician, Pharmacist, And Patient Recruiter Sentenced For Oxycodone Conspiracy

April 23, 2017

A 77-year-old physician, a 51-year-old pharmacist, and a 63-year-old man described as a patient recruiter, all of whom are Houston, Texas residents, were sentenced to federal prison on April 3, 2017 for their respective roles in an illegal conspiracy involving prescription oxycodone pills in the Hou[...]

$2M Indiana Medical Malpractice Verdict For Morphine Overdose Death While In Hospital

October 21, 2016

Earlier this month, an Indiana medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a widow whose husband died as a result of an overdose of morphine while he was recovering from surgery in an Indiana hospital. The jury took two and a half hours of deliberations to return its verdict regarding [...]

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