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Physician Penalized With $4.2M In Claims Fraud Settlement

Categories: Settlements

A Connecticut-based physician and several of his companies have been forced to pay $4.2 million in damages for filing fraudulent claims for payment to Medicare and the state Medicaid programme for inappropriate billing and needless services.

FedEx Driver Sued For Killing A 7-Year-Old Girl

Categories: General

The father of a 7-year-old girl has accused a FedEx delivery man in Texas of murdering his daughter.

He filed the claim in Wise County court several weeks after his daughter was discovered dead in a body of water in Boyd, roughly 10 miles…

Prison Officer At JCCC Granted $2M In Assault Settlement

Categories: Settlements

A financial payout was given to a prison officer at the Jefferson City Correctional Center after an inmate assault left him with serious and lasting disabilities.

Following an incident at JCCC on July 19, the officer and his wife filed a…

Full Review Of 11th Cir. Ruling Sought By Monsanto

Categories: General

An Eleventh Circuit panel revised but did not overturn a previous ruling that federal law does not preempt a Georgia doctor's claim that Monsanto failed to warn people about the alleged cancer risks of its…

Alabama Cities To Get $44M From Walmart Over Opioid Crisis

Categories: Settlements

Alabama Attorney General informed that Walmart has agreed to a $44.2 million settlement with 270 Alabama town, city, and county governments regarding the effects of opioid addiction…

Juul Secures Cash Infusion To Avoid Bankruptcy

Categories: Announcements

Juul Labs Inc. has secured a cash infusion from some of its early investors to avoid bankruptcy and plans to lay off roughly one-third of its global workforce, according to…

Walmart Agreed To Pay $3.1B To Settle Opioid Lawsuits

Categories: Settlements

Walmart has become the latest major player in the drug industry to announce a plan to settle lawsuits filed by state and local governments across the US over the toll of powerful prescription…

FDA Issues Order To Authorize Naloxone Sale

Categories: FDA Related

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a notice that could help increase access to opioid overdose-reversing naloxone drug products without a prescription, paving the way…

Study Finds Vaping Results In Long-term Addiction

Categories: General

Although the makers of JUUL and other popular e-cigarettes have marketed their products as safer than smoking tobacco cigarettes, a new study suggests that vaping actually…

Judge To Meet Hernia Mesh MDL's Lawyers For 2023 Trial

Categories: General

The United States District Judge presiding over all federal hernia mesh lawsuits involving Bard products will meet with lawyers involved in the litigation next week as…

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