A ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week will allow a class-action lawsuit to go forward against the Arizona child protection and public health care agencies on behalf of all children in foster care. The Ninth Circuit backs up a 2017 ruling by U. S. District Court Judge Roslyn Silver that B.K. This portion of the lawsuit was sent back to the district court for further …
RALEIGH — A federal judge late Saturday temporarily blocked the U.S. government from quickly approving any proposal by North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper designed to expand Medicaid coverage to potentially hundreds of thousands of uninsured people through President Barack Obama’s signature health care law. The order issued by U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan came a day after Republican …
When Mylan ( $MYL ) quickly settled its Medicaid allegations a week ago with a $465 million payment, analysts and politicians predicted the company’s EpiPen trouble would be far from over. Now, that’s ringing true as the pharma faces a shareholder lawsuit pressing for damages from related share price drops. Bernstein Liebhard announced a class action suit claiming securities violations at Mylan …
Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Mylan N.V. (“Mylan” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: MYL ) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in United States District Court, Southern District of New York, and docketed under 16-cv-08000, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons or entities who purchased …
You can add Colorado to the list of states being sued for refusing to widen access to the hepatitis C medications in its state Medicaid program. The lawsuit, which is seeking class action status, was filed on behalf of two Colorado citizens on Monday in response to a longstanding policy by the state Medicaid program to restrict coverage only to people with the most advanced stages of liver …
Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against American Renal Associates Holdings, Inc. (“American Renal” or the “Company”) (ARA) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in United States District Court, Southern District of New York, and docketed under 16-cv-06841, is on behalf of a class consisting of all …
A court hearing in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Kansas’ cutoff of Medicaid funds to two Planned Parenthood affiliates has been canceled at the state’s request. The hearing, originally scheduled for this morning, was to take up Planned Parenthood’s request for a temporary restraining order blocking the state’s action. Bonyen Lee-Gilmore, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid- …
The two Planned Parenthood organizations in Kansas and Missouri wasted little time challenging Kansas’ termination of their Medicaid funding. Just a day after the Kansas Department of Health and Environment notified them of its decision to cut off their Medicaid payments, Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri and Planned Parenthood of St. Louis Region sued the head of the agency, Susan …
More than a decade ago, Rita Gorenflo of Palm Beach Gardens signed on as a plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit against the state of Florida on behalf of nearly two million poor and disabled children on Medicaid. Through a lengthy Miami trial and the appeal of the judge’s scathing findings against the state, Gorenflo lost a son, while she raised six other adopted disabled children to …