Legal & Regulatory Issues

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez has clarified the name of a defendant in a lawsuit that alleges Alta Vista Regional Medical Center in Las Vegas, N.M., engaged in false advertising and overcharging patients, the Taos News reported Feb. 22.

A former employee of Chicago-based Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital has been charged for alleged theft and sale of 10 tanks of nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas. 

A couple in Los Angeles is suing after they say their embryos were killed by toxic oil used at a fertility clinic.

A suspect in an arson investigation is in trouble with the law again after attacking a deputy inside Racine, Wis.-based Ascension All Saints Hospital early Feb. 20, Fox6 reported. 

A New York pharmacist pleaded guilty to distributing and possessing oxycodone, the intent to distribute the opioid and nine counts of filing false tax returns. 

Federal authorities have shut down a Missouri-based healthcare-sharing ministry that allegedly only spent 3.5 percent of the money it collected toward paying medical bills, the Kansas City Star reported Feb. 20. 

The Michigan Board of Nursing has revoked the license of a home health nurse facing murder charges in a 3-year-old patient's death, the Michigan Department of Attorney General said Feb. 17.

After staying away over the past several years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians have returned to Washington, D.C., to lobby Congress, Kaiser Health News reported Feb. 17. 

Omaha, Neb.-based CHI Health agreed to pay $800,000 in a class-action lawsuit filed by its nurses over remote, on-call work they allegedly performed without proper compensation, Omaha World-Herald reported Feb. 16.

Moderna is not liable for patent infringement cases against its COVID-19 vaccine, but the U.S. should be, the Justice Department said in court documents filed Feb. 14.