Stories about physicians and other healthcare professionals involved in lawsuits—as either a plaintiff or a defendant—or accused of breaking the law. Various legal updates or unusual stories in the news may land here.
Advanced Imaging Specialists, Danbury, Connecticut, alleges the breach of contract occurred shortly after it started performing services for 3 New England hospitals.
Children's Wisconsin admitted that it accidentally threw out the brain of a 24-year-old woman who survived a rare childhood illness as a result of a novel gene therapy. A researcher called the organ “irreplaceable.”
Filed in a Texas federal court, the complaint names Prime Imaging Partners and Memorial MRI & Diagnostic among numerous defendants, with the alleged auto-injury scheme occurring from 2019-2023.
A Florida family is suing Mayo Clinic for allegedly performing a heart transplant without communicating certain risks associated with the donated organ. Mayo Clinic has pushed back against those claims, saying it acted appropriately every step of the way.
While the policy of President Donald Trump is to axe research on transgender issues and DEI, scientists who spoke to the Boston Globe said their work does not run up against those restrictions.
Tasha Saunders, 44, pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicaid in a scheme that involved creating fake patient records and forging the signatures of unwitting providers at a psychiatric rehabilitation center.
Drug distributors AmerisourceBergen (Cencora), Cardinal Health, McKesson, Johnson & Johnson, Teva and Allergan do not admit to wrongdoing. However, they have agreed to a settlement which will compensate providers for opioid abuse treatments.
After a bout of COVID-19, an 81-year-old woman developed bed sores that became infested with maggots. A lawsuit claims the facility failed to take proper action to treat the injury.