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.
Rabun County, Georgia, jurors settled on the eight-figure sum on June 26 following a trial that started 11 days prior, with Gainesville Radiology Group one of the defendants.
Details are emerging in the extraordinary case of a U.S. toddler who was found alive in a hospital morgue five or six hours after an ER doctor declared the child dead by drowning.
The state is one step closer to enacting legislation that would require imaging and radiation therapy professionals to acquire state licensure to operate radiation-producing equipment.
Hospitals are not the only healthcare entities competing over a limited pool of qualified compliance officers. Payers, vendors and others are in the race too. But hospitals and health systems may have the most to lose if they let down their guard on adherence to regulatory rules.
The owners of a local pharmacy in Mississippi have been ordered to pay back the money they stole from Medicare and Medicaid by billing for expensive prescriptions they never dispensed to patients.
State caps on malpractice damages were associated with a roughly 21% decrease in low-value imaging use for headaches, according to new Neiman Policy Institute research.
The U.S. Department of Justice says Nicole Millen—who is neither a medical doctor nor a veterinarian—gave visitors to her clinics Chorulon, a drug meant for cows, without properly labeling it as for animal use only.
The patient's Trifecta GT heart valve had to be replaced after just six years, an experience he says resulted in "permanent injuries." Abbott pulled the devices off the U.S. market in 2023 due to a known risk of structural valve deterioration.
The allegations are part of a 13-count indictment unveiled Monday by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell listing Blooming Staffing Agency, its owner and an employee as defendants. They are accused of billing nursing homes after knowingly placing unlicensed nursing assistants to care for elderly patients.
Cynthia Stoffle, 49, sued after a 2019 ER visit to Oneida Health Hospital left her with a debilitating medical condition that her attorneys successfully argued could have been avoided.
The ballot measure was recently sent to the state attorney general’s office for approval. Once cleared, supporters can begin collecting signatures for its inclusion in the 2026 elections. The proposed law has the backing of one of the largest labor unions in the state.