A jury found that a hospital and medical group created a
hostile work environment and wrongfully discharged three
nurses based on their opposition to a supervisor’s harassment,
using a pretext that the nurses had abused a patient. The nurses
soon found new jobs, but a year later lost them when the State of
California filed criminal charges against them for the patient
abuse... More...   $0 (03-11-2020 - CA)

White Plains, NY - The United States of America charged Barbara Meyzen, a/k/a "Bobbie Meyzen" with wire fraud.

Barbara Meyzen, a/k/a "Bobbie Meyzen," the owner and operator of La Cremaillere Restaurant in Banksville, New York, pled guilty to wire fraud in connection with her multi-year scheme to defraud the restaurant’s lenders, mortgagee, bankruptcy creditors, and customers. MEYZEN ple... More...   $0 (03-06-2020 - nY)

Nashville, TN - The United States of America claimed that Diversicare Health Services, Inc. knowingly submitted false claims for Medicare services.

Diversicare Health Services, Inc., has agreed to pay $9.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting false claims to Medicare for rehabilitation therapy services that were not reasonable, nece... More...   $9500000 (03-06-2020 - TN)

Forty years ago, Congress recognized that refugees fleeing imminent persecution do not have the luxury of choosing their escape route into the United States. It mandated equity in its treatment of all refugees, however they arrived.1
This principle is embedded in the Refugee Act of 1980, which established an asylum procedure available to any migrant, “irrespective of such alien’s status,” and ... More...   $0 (02-29-2020 - CA)

Sacramento, CA - The United States of America charged Jai Vijay with:

CONSPIRACY TO PAY AND RECEIVE HEALTH CARE KICKBACKS

Jai Vijay, 54, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty to conspiring with the owners of home health care agencies and a hospice agency to pay and receive illegal kickbacks in exchange for Medicare beneficiary referrals.

According to court documents, Jai Vijay’s... More...   $0 (02-09-2020 - CA)

Bangor, ME - The United States of America charged Katherine Prosper with social security fraud.

A Clinton woman pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court in Bangor to Social Security fraud and making false statements, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.

According to court records, from about August 2006 through March 2019, Katherine Prosper, 61, a recipient of Supplemental S... More...   $0 (01-13-2020 - ME)

Tulsa, OK - Carol Muller and Robert P. Muller sued Southcrest, LLC on medical malpractice theories claiming to have been injured and/or damaged as a direct result of Carol Muller suffering a brain injury post surgery on September 3, 2008.

Plaintiffs claimed that Southcrest's nurses did not follow policies and procedures and the Oklahoma Nursing Act when they transferred Ms. Muller to ... More...   $0 (01-09-2020 - OK)

This appeal raises an important issue concerning the investigative authority
of two committees of the United States House of Representatives and the
protection of privacy due the President of the United States suing in his individual,
not official, capacity with respect to financial records. The specific issue is the
lawfulness of three subpoenas issued by the House Committee on Fi... More...   $0 (12-04-2019 - NY)

Tulsa, OK - The State of Oklahoma charged Dianna Teresi Demry with abuse by caretaker in violation of 21 O.S. 843.1, which provides:



A. 1. No caretaker or other person shall abuse, commit financial neglect, neglect, commit sexual abuse, or exploit any person entrusted to the care of such caretaker or other person in a nursing facility or other setting, or knowingly cause, secure... More...   $0 (11-19-2019 - OK)

Zulma Unzueta appeals from a judgment entered after a
jury trial in favor of defendant Asmik Akopyan, M.D., on
Unzueta’s action for medical malpractice. Dr. Akopyan served as
the anesthesiologist during the birth of Unzueta’s child, after
which Unzueta’s right leg was permanently paralyzed. The jury
found Dr. Akopyan breached the duty of care she owed Unzueta,
but the breac... More...   $0 (11-19-2019 - CA)

Baton Rouge, LA - The Louisiana Department of Health has agreed to resolve allegations that it submitted false and inflated Medicaid claims for long-term nursing home and hospice care, the Department of Justice announced today. Under the settlement agreement, the state agency has agreed to pay $13,422,550.

“Today’s settlement demonstrates that we will take whatever steps are appropriate... More...   $0 (11-14-2019 - LA)

This appeal raises one fundamental issue: whether Insurance Code sections
10113.71 and 10113.721 ("the statutes"), which came into effect on January 1, 2013,
apply to term life insurance policies issued before the statutes' effective date. In 2005,
Protective Life Insurance Company (Protective Life) issued William Patrick McHugh a
60-year term life policy (the policy) that provided... More...   $0 (10-13-2019 - CA)