Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

Danco Laboratories agreed to pay $765,000 April 12 to settle accusations of the drug distributor importing active pharmaceutical ingredients for its one drug, Mifeprex (mifepristone), and not marking its country of origin or paying marking duties. 

Hours after the Florida Legislature sent a bill that places a six-week ban on abortions to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk, he signed it into law, according to an April 13 statement from his office.

A former physician acquitted in the death of 14 patients is suing Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health for malicious prosecution, according to court documents obtained by Becker’s.

A former Kentucky nurse has pleaded guilty to manslaughter of a patient after initially being charged with murder, Lexington Herald Leader reported April 13.

Florida stands to be one of the most restrictive states in the country when it comes to abortion, if Gov. Ron DeSantis signs legislation passed April 13 that would prohibit abortions after six weeks, according to The New York Times.

Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West is suing a California hospital, alleging the facility laid off employees instead of complying with a new city minimum pay law, according to mynewsla.com.

An unknown person opened fire on Kaiser Permanente’s Roseville (Calif.) hospital, striking the building, CBS Sacramento reported April 12.

Ndubuisi Joseph Okafor, MD, a physician based in Washington, D.C., has been arrested and charged with 16 counts of illegal distribution of opioids.

Nearly 700 companies are receiving a warning from the Federal Trade Commission about the civil penalties they face for advertisements containing claims about products that cannot be backed up with reliable evidence. 

In the days since the Texas federal court ruling that suspended the FDA’s approval of mifepristone — one of two pills used to induce abortion medically — several medical associations reacted to the unprecedented case.