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Cancer Patient Speaking Out Against Proposed Class Action Settlement

A LaSalle woman is speaking out against a proposed settlement in a class action lawsuit involving diluted chemotherapy treatments. Sarah Johnson blames the incident for her cancer coming back and she says the settlement doesn’t cover her pain and suffering. This story goes back to 2012, when it was discovered that over 1,200 cancer patients allegedly received diluted chemotherapy.


Air Methods Corp. Hit With Sixth Lawsuit Claiming Price Gouging

An Air Methods helicopter in California in February. (Photo by Alan Wilson, Creative Commons ) Centennial-based Air Methods Corp., the nation’s largest air ambulance company, was hit last week with the sixth lawsuit since 2015 alleging that it overcharges patients. In a complaint filed Nov. 4, a Pennsylvania man injured in a car accident claims that publicly traded Air Methods Corp. billed him …


$2.4 Million Settlement Reached in Diluted Chemotherapy Drug Lawsuit

$2.4 million settlement reached in diluted chemotherapy drug lawsuit Posted: November 9, 2016 09:55:24 AM Last updated: November 9, 2016 11:01:11 AM Category: Ontario Tags: cancer, cancer drug, chemotherapy, hamilton, marchese health care, new brunswick, ontario A tentative settlement of nearly $2.4 million has been reached in a class-action lawsuit filed after cancer patients were given …


Doctor Returns to Michigan, Faces Lawsuits Filed on Behalf of Children He Treated

Yasser Awaad Depositions are underway for a potential jury trial next year for Yasser Awaad, M.D., a pediatric neurologist formerly with Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center in Dearborn who is accused in a class action lawsuit of falsely diagnosing epilepsy in hundreds of children in Southeast Michigan in the mid-2000s. Awaad has been compared by the attorneys of the children and their families …


Pennsylvania Sues Grane Nursing Homes Over Staffing Levels

A company with 11 skilled nursing homes in Pennsylvania doesn’t have enough staff to provide basic patient care — and faked it when state Department of Health inspectors were around, the state attorney general said in a consumer protection lawsuit filed Friday. One patient, for example, needed medical cream applied daily but records show it was skipped 19 times one month. The same resident …


Life Care Centers of America, Inc. Agrees to Settle Qui Tam Lawsuit Alleging That the Nursing Home Company Billed Medicare and TRICARE for Unnecessary Medical Services; Agrees to Pay $145 Million

The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced the settlement of a consolidated False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit that was filed against private nursing home company Life Care Centers of America, Inc. (“Life Care”). The lawsuit alleges that, between January 2006 and February 2013, Life Care engaged in health care fraud by submitting false claims to Medicare and …


Derby’s Griffin Hospital Sued for Reusing Insulin Pens

A Stamford lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against Griffin Hospital in Derby on behalf of more than 3,100 former patients who may face HIV or other blood-borne diseases as a result of hospital employees using the same insulin injection pens on patient after patient.


Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Psychiatric Patients Claiming They Were Isolated Nearly 24/7 for Nearly a Year

Charles White is escorted into the Carbon County Courthouse on June 21, 2010, where he was sentenced to life at the Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs for two counts of deliberate homicide and aggravated kidnapping. White is one of four psychiatric patients who are named in a lawsuit against the state alleging extreme psychological and emotional harm while under the state’s care. Four …


Unsatisfied Former Patient Files Class-Action Lawsuit Against Lung Institute

Diagnosed with lung disease and determined to shed her oxygen tank, Tammy Rivero resorted to an unorthodox treatment. 3 Months Ago In 2014, Rivero took out a home equity loan to pay $7,500 and traveled from her western North Carolina home to Florida to undergo stem-cell therapy at the Lung Institute in Tampa. The institute claimed she would see results in a matter of weeks, according to …


EpiPen Makers Sued for Selling Pens in Packs of 2

As the makers of EpiPen battle a firestorm surrounding price increases, a new federal lawsuit seeking class-action status argues that the company is engaging in price gouging by forcing consumers to buy the pens in packs of two. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of Michigan on behalf of …