Rachel Dovel didn’t mean to become a crusader for transgender rights. But the library employee found herself cast in that role last year when the library’s health insurance refused to pay for her gender confirmation surgery – and the library’s board wouldn’t budge. She underwent surgery in December – and Monday she and her legal team announced she settled a lawsuit against the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. …
A two month stay at Brampton Civic Hospital has turned into a traumatic ordeal that Valerie Darrah says she can’t forget, so she’s suing the William Osler Health System — the organization that operates the hospital. Last June, Darrah’s friend brought her to the hospital where she fainted. The 78-year-old then remembers waking up a few days later in the intensive care unit attached to machines.
The Canadian manufacturer of OxyContin has agreed to pay C$20m (US$14.5m/£11.3m) to settle a long-standing class-action lawsuit. The claim centred on allegations that Purdue Pharma Canada used deceitful marketing practices for the powerful prescription painkiller. The proposed resolution brings to a close a legal battle launched in 2007.
A judge on Monday dismissed the crux of a lawsuit initiated by the NAACP last month against the Arlington school district that demanded that Nichols Junior High School be shuttered until the source of an illness could be found and eradicated, according to officials. Judge Tom Lowe of the 236th State District Court dismissed the school district, school board president and superintendent as …
A former Fort Bragg soldier filed a class-action lawsuit Monday alleging that the Army has failed to consider the effects of post-traumatic stress syndrome on veterans who received less-than-honorable discharges. Stephen Kennedy, a former 82nd Airborne Division soldier who now lives in Fairfield, Connecticut, alleges in the lawsuit that Army discharge review boards have consistently failed to …
Federal Judge Henry Wingate has ruled that the lone minor in the 7-year-old federal lawsuit against the state over children’s mental health services can file an amended lawsuit and continue with the case. Attorneys for the state argued against allowing an amended complaint and wanted the case dismissed. Wingate said in his ruling that over the course of the litigation, several plaintiffs had …
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Healthport Technologies LLC, IOD Inc. and CIOX Health LLC, citing alleged breach of contract, fraud and unjust enrichment from overcharging patients for health records. Leon Kuchenmeister, Cindy A. Hugger-Gravitt, and Beth A. Bretoi filed a complaint on behalf of all those similarly situated on March 20, in the U.S. …
UnitedHealth Group is one insurer offering Medicare Advantage plans, which cover about one third of people on Medicare. The Justice Department has joined a California whistleblower’s lawsuit that accuses insurance giant UnitedHealth Group of fraud in its …
Attorney General Jim Hood announced Thursday that $34.4 million recovered mostly from a lawsuit settlement with the Moody’s Corporation was delivered to the state treasury. Hood had announced in January the state would receive more …
That suit, brought by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, was filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The filing would allow [California and New York] to defend the mandates, which will require auto manufacturers to hit fuel economy standards of 54.5 miles per gallon by the year 2025.