A Missouri state jury has ruled Johnson & Johnson must pay $72 million to the family of a woman who used the company's products for decades and eventually died of ovarian cancer linked to the company's talc-based powders, Reuters reports.
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The controversial cancer treatment figure Stanislaw Burzynski, MD, PhD, has been at the center of numerous investigations and legal proceedings, and is currently in the midst of a Texas Medical Board hearing.
Pittsburgh-based UPMC has sued United Educators Insurance, its liability insurer, claiming the insurer should pay the $12.5 million antitrust settlement the health system tentatively agreed to pay a local property management company, according to the Pittsburgh Business Times.
The board chairman of Cascade Valley Hospital and Clinics in Arlington, Wash., has had several run-ins with the law over the past few weeks.
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare has offered to pay $238 million to settle allegations that four of its hospitals violated the Anti-Kickback Statute and the False Claims Act.
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New details have emerged about a Florida teenager who was recently arrested and accused of posing as a physician.
Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare has agreed to pay the federal government $2.09 million to resolve allegations that patients at one of its hospitals were administered leftover portions of single-dose vials of chemotherapy drugs, according to the…
The owner of a medical billing company has pleaded guilty in Michigan federal court to conspiring to commit healthcare fraud after she submitted $2 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare.
From a teen being arrested for posing as a physician to 51 hospitals across the nation agreeing to a $23 million False Claims Act settlement, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.
The CEO and co-owner of a Maryland diagnostics company is facing life in prison after a federal jury convicted him of two counts of healthcare fraud that resulted in death, according to the Department of Justice.