Trump Administration Faces Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Health Care Failures By ICEAILSA CHANG, HOST:The Trump administration faces a new class-action lawsuit alleging failures by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. The suit alleges that in nearly 160 detention centers across the country, ICE has deprived migrant detainees of medical and mental health care. CHANG: What about alleged …
Recent attempts to settle a 2015 lawsuit alleging woefully inadequate inmate medical care at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola haven’t produced a resolution, but a federal magistrate says both sides will continue to talk. U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard Bourgeois Jr. held a settlement conference last week with attorneys for Angola inmates and the state corrections department. At the …
Richard Williams argued the Regional Health Authorities Act is relevant because it offers the province an “immunity provision.” Section 61(1) of the act states neither the province nor the minister of health is liable “for an act or omission of a regional health authority official, a person on the medical staff or nursing staff of a regional health authority or an employee or agent of a …
In November, a family filed a 1-dollar-short-of-a-billion-dollar class-action lawsuit against electronic health records (EHR) vendor eClinicalWorks. The family of Stjepan Tot claimed that a lack of transparency in the company’s EHRs prevented proper treatment of his cancer, resulting in his death. Now, primary care physicians in 2 different states have filed another class-action suit against …
Sage Memorial Hospital in Ganado, Arizona, has settled its lawsuit against the Indian Health Service for $200 million, according to a press release from Razaghi Health Care, the hospital’s management company. Entrance to Sage Memorial Hospital. (Times file photo – Donovan Quintero) The hospital had sued the IHS in 2013 after the government agency terminated its PL 93-638 contract, citing an …
The Trump administration’s revision of federal rules requiring contraception coverage grants employers the ability to impose their religious beliefs on their employees and employees’ dependents, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office says in a federal court filing. A copy of the lawsuit, filed late Friday in federal court, is available below. The lawsuit says several Massachusetts …
It took just minutes for the first lawsuit to be announced last week after the Trump administration said it was rolling back Obamacare’s contraceptive coverage mandate, creating an exemption for faith-based organizations that said paying for employees’ birth control violated their faiths. The American Civil Liberties Union accused President Trump of discrimination by allowing employers to put …
A man detained by immigration agents in Chicago field a lawsuit against a federal agency Tuesday claiming he did not receive proper medical care while in custody. Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez sat in a wheelchair while his attorney and Immigration Customs and Enforcement attorneys argued over whether he has received proper care. In January, Catalan-Ramirez was partially paralyzed from a drive-by …
Hear the radio version of this story. Imagine having someone watch your every move for 16 years. And when you mess up, the watchdog tells a federal court judge and gives interviews to reporters about whatever happened.
Closing arguments wrapped up Friday in the malpractice trial against the Phoenix VA. The judge announced she’ll make a ruling on the $50 million lawsuit on Monday. Steve Cooper is the U.S. Army veteran who filed the lawsuit.