Banner Health’s summer data hack triggers 10 civil lawsuits
Banner Health’s admission this summer that a large-scale cyberattack may have compromised the records of 3.7 million people has been followed...
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State sues Baker woman in million dollar scam of Medicaid program
A state probe into a 2012 complaint that a Zachary home health care worker had abandoned the care of a Medicaid...
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Sixth Circuit affirms dismissal of False Claims Act case based on HITECH data breach
In United States ex rel. Sheldon v. Kettering Health Network, 816 F.3d 399 (6th Cir. 2016), the Sixth Circuit affirmed the...
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Court revives Brookdale $35 million medicare fraud case
Following a long investigation and dismissal of Medicare fraud allegations brought against the nation’s largest senior housing provider in 2012, the...
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Medicare fraud case against SavaSeniorCare rolls on
A lawsuit that accuses one of the nation’s largest nursing facility operators of overbilling Medicare for unnecessary therapy services will proceed,...
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DOJ and whistle-blowers target skilled nursing operations in fraud lawsuits
“The government is increasingly scrutinizing skilled nursing facilities for medically unnecessary therapies,” which “has acted as a clarion call to whistle-blowers,”...
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Florida court limits life insurers’ actions on underwriting fraud
On September 22, 2016, the Florida Supreme Court issued an eagerly-awaited opinion in Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Pruco Life Insurance...
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Trucking company, staffing firm reach settlement in $1.85M comp dispute
A Texas trucking firm and a staffing company that was ordered to pay it $1.85 million for failing to provide workers’...
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Court awards insurer $12.3M from insider-contractor scam
When fires devastated luxury homes in Fairfield and Westchester counties, a Chubb Corp. insurance adjuster was there to assess damages and...
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Beshear sues nation’s largest kidney dialysis provider
Attorney General Andy Beshear filed a lawsuit Thursday against Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc., the nation’s largest kidney dialysis provider, which...
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