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23 Jul 2007, 3:18 pm
Nightingale Home Health Care, Inc. (5th Cir. 7/23/07) [pdf] the Court held that you look at both damage caps and apply the one that provides the lowest amount of punitive damages. [read post]
Agape Senior Community, Inc., Nos. 15-2145 and 15-2147, by finding that the issue was fact-driven and thus not appropriate for interlocutory review. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 11:43 pm by Ben Vernia
” According to DOJ’s press release: Mississippi-based Cypress Pharmaceutical Inc., its subsidiary Hawthorn Pharmaceuticals Inc. and its CEO, Max Draughn, have agreed to pay $2.8 million to resolve civil allegations under the False Claims Act, the Justice Department announced today. [read post]
17 Aug 2016, 5:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Labor Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) is testing a new “Expedited Case Processing Pilot” program in its Western Region that it hopes will make it even easier for whistleblowers to extort big settlements or recover big judgements by bringing whistleblower complaints under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (Act). [read post]
5 Aug 2024, 12:22 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The more than $560,000 in civil monetary penalties (“CMPs”) collected since March by the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) from three HIPAA-covered entities for failing to respond to medical record requests within 30 days as required by the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) right of access rule (“Access Rule”) shows patients, their personal… [read post]
12 Jul 2013, 8:49 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
WellPoint $1.7 M HIPAA Settlement Expensive Lesson On HIPAA Risks Of Leaving PHI Too Accessible In Web-Based Applications As health plans and health care organizations increasingly jump on the Web-based application bandwagon, managed care company WellPoint Inc. [read post]
8 May 2019, 9:16 am by Native American Rights Fund
Federal Courts Bulletinhttps://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2019.htmlMuscogee Creek Indian Freedman Band, Inc. v. [read post]
8 May 2019, 9:16 am by Unknown
Federal Courts Bulletinhttps://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2019.htmlMuscogee Creek Indian Freedman Band, Inc. v. [read post]
4 Dec 2020, 11:20 am by anne
  The private equity focus on profit rather than care can lead to health providers taking shortcuts, engaging in improper marketing, or otherwise acting improperly in ways that can lead to improper billing and patient harm. [read post]
16 Nov 2023, 7:00 am
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Res-Care, a "provider of comprehensive home and community-based health services," and Equus Workforce Solutions, a nationwide job-assistance company based out of New Mexico, allegedly violated civil rights and disability discrimination laws when it fired a disabled employee who was undergoing a high-risk pregnancy.Rather than accommodate the woman, she was punished for her medical absences, and later fired.Believing that such conduct… [read post]
24 Aug 2022, 2:11 pm by Ben Vernia
According to DOJ’s press release: Essilor International, Essilor of America Inc., Essilor Laboratories of America Inc. and Essilor Instruments USA (collectively, “Essilor”), headquartered in Dallas, have agreed to pay $16.4 million to resolve allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by causing claims to be submitted to Medicare and Medicaid that resulted from violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute. [read post]
21 Oct 2020, 11:21 am by Lynn L. Bergeson and Carla N. Hutton
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on October 15, 2020, a settlement with Electrolux Home Products, Inc., to resolve alleged violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). [read post]