$55M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Birth Injuries
December 24, 2013
On December 23, 2013, a Lehigh County, Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded $55 million to the family of a now 4-year-old child who did not have sufficient oxygen during the birthing process, resulting in the child being severely developmentally delayed, having cerebral palsy, and having pr[...]
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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[...]
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Did Hooters Help Novartis’ Drug Sales?
May 3, 2013
Late last month it was announced by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division that the United States has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit filed on January 5, 2011, under the qui t[...]
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Medical Malpractice Settlements May Cost Cook County $24 Million
February 11, 2013
Cook County, Illinois is facing the possibility that it will pay $24 million in medical malpractice settlements related to its public health system. Upwards of $20 million may be paid to settle one medical malpractice claim involving a now 3-year-old who suffered permanent irreversible brain dam[...]
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GAO Report On Medicare Fraud
December 1, 2012
On November 28, 2012, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) filed a report with the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Health Subcommittee regarding Medicare fraud in the United States. The GAO reported that 37% of all successful Medicare fraud prosecut[...]
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