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Nursing Home Chain Agrees To Pay $6M To Settle False Cost Reports Allegations

August 23, 2025

According to the June 17, 2025 Settlement Agreement (Agreement) reached between the United States of America and the Centers for Care LLC, d/b/a Centers Healthcare (Centers) along with 44 skilled nursing facilities: Centers is a limited liability company organized under New York law. Centers is rela[...]

Georgia Supreme Court Dodges Deciding Constitutionality Of Caps On Wrongful Death Damages

August 22, 2025

After Allen Turner died from surgical complications, his daughter, Norkesia Turner (“Turner”), sued Drs. William Thompson and Heather Nolan, as well as their employer, the Medical Center of Central Georgia, Inc.(collectively, “MCCG”), for medical malpractice and wrongful death. The action pr[...]

Georgia Lawsuit Alleges Hospital’s Staffing Shortage Led To Patient’s Suicide

August 21, 2025

The family of a 35-year-old man who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and called 911 from a hotel on January 12, 2024, stating that he was having a nervous breakdown and needed help, has filed a medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital where he was brought by ambulance [...]

$4.5M Settlement With Detroit Nursing Homes Over Substandard Care Allegations

August 20, 2025

The Michigan Attorney General has announced a $4.5 million settlement with six Detroit-area nursing homes and their ownership companies, Villa Financial Services LLC and Villa Olympia Investment LLC, over allegations that they accepted taxpayer funds while providing grossly substandard care to their[...]

Connecticut Hospital Sued For Wrongful Death Of Restrained Patient In Mental Crisis

August 19, 2025

On June 5, 2025, a medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit was filed in a Connecticut state court by the administrator of the estate of a patient who died while she was a restrained patient receiving mental health crisis care in a hospital. The Complaint states, in part: On the evening of April 2[...]

Federal Appellate Court Holds CVS Immune From Suit For Administration Of One Vaccine, But Not Another

August 18, 2025

At a CVS Pharmacy in 2017, Amanda Watts was given two shots, one with the Pneumovax 23 vaccine and one with the Boostrix vaccine. According to Watts, both vaccines were negligently administered, in the same improper location in her arm. Watts was eventually diagnosed with a chronic pain condition th[...]

Owner Of Durable Medical Equipment Suppliers Received 12-Year Sentence For $61 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

August 17, 2025

On July 1, 2025, a Florida man was sentenced to 12 years in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to defraud Medicare with false reimbursement claims for durable medical equipment (DME). He was also ordered to pay $21,195,540.18 in restitution and forfeiture in the amount of $2[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms $10.5 Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Twins During Birth

August 16, 2025

In April 2019, Dinesha Robinson was nearly five months’ pregnant with twins. Her pregnancy was high-risk, due to a prior miscarriage and preeclampsia, and she had been treated twice in the previous three weeks for a urinary tract infection (“UTI”) by United Obstetrics and Gynecology (“UOG”[...]

Five Families Whose Babies Were Allegedly Intentionally Injured By A Nurse In A Hospital’s NICU Have Settled Their Civil Claims

August 15, 2025

It was reported in late June that HCA Healthcare, which operates Henrico Doctors’ Hospital, has settled with five families whose babies allegedly had their bones broken by neonatal ICU nurse Erin Strotman or experienced other forms of neglect while in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit [...]

324 Defendants Charged With $14.6 Billion In Intended Health Care Fraud

August 14, 2025

It was announced on June 30, 2025 that criminal charges were filed and that civil resolutions were reached in three cases in connection with alleged schemes to unlawfully distribute controlled substances and defraud federal health care programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. The charges were file[...]

Nebraska Supreme Court Overturns Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Due To Erroneous Jury Instruction

August 13, 2025

In 2013, Dawn M. Morgan-Baker was admitted to the labor and delivery unit of a hospital operated by Alegent Creighton Health Creighton University Medical Center, LLC, in Omaha, Nebraska, for her anticipated delivery of her son, J.R.M.B. (J.R.). She was at 36 weeks gestation. She had suffered a fall [...]

$2.45M Verdict Against Pathologist Who Posted Videos Of Decapitated Baby

August 12, 2025

On June 18, 2025, a Georgia jury awarded a couple whose baby was decapitated during childbirth $2.45 million against the pathologist they had hired to perform an autopsy on the baby’s body, who had posted on Instagram several graphic videos of the baby’s body. The couple had hired pathol[...]

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