Michigan announces record-setting hospital drug diversion civil penalty settlement
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced today that the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS)...
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How federal fraud and abuse laws are changing
The False Claims Act has the potential to trip up healthcare medical coders, even if a false claim goes undetected. The...
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Staten Island-based health care service agrees to pay to settle false claims act suit alleging fraudulent billing practices
Centers Plan for Healthy Living (“Centers Plan”), a Staten Island-based company that provides services to people who are chronically ill or...
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Law firm levies lawsuit at Tower Hill Insurance for fraud in Hurricane Irma claims
Hurricane Litigation Group has filed a lawsuit against Tower Hill Insurance claiming that the insurance company, and its associates, defrauded victims...
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6 latest healthcare industry lawsuits
From national healthcare organizations refiling a lawsuit over 340B drug pricing program cuts to a Georgia physician accused of submitting thousands...
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Henry County joins lawsuit against opioid makers
A civil suit has been filed in Henry County Circuit Court against opioid manufacturers, distributors and “front groups.” The suit, filed...
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Lawyers bickering over Workers’ Comp claim, leading to defamation lawsuit
A Philadelphia law firm and one of its attorneys contends an adversary firm from an underlying action defamed it and abused...
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‘Crazy decision’: Injured motorcyclist locked in battle with insurers for months
Reforms to the compulsory third party insurance system in NSW have been a “complete disaster” in curbing the “aggressive” and “adversarial”...
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Lawsuit mulled in second UnityPoint Health data breach this year
An attorney who filed a class-action lawsuit against UnityPoint Health about a data breach discovered earlier this year is investigating additional...
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United Healthcare advances $100M urinalysis testing fraud suit
United Healthcare Services Inc. can proceed with its lawsuit against drug testing laboratories operated by Next Health LLC for allegedly engaging...
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