Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

A nurse was charged with murder Aug. 23 for allegedly causing the death of a 97-year-old patient at Baptist Health Lexington (Ky.), the Lexington Police Department said in a statement. 

A pediatrician at Indianapolis-based Ascension St. Vincent Hospital who was fired after failing to comply with his employer’s COVID-19 vaccination requirement will not be granted immediate reinstatement, the Society for Human Resource Management r…

The FBI is warning healthcare workers across the U.S. they may be targeted by scammers impersonating law enforcement officials who will attempt to extort money from them.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by healthcare workers who challenged Maine’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate based on their religious objections, NBC affiliate WCSH reported Aug. 18.

A California health plan and three providers have agreed to pay $70.7 million to settle claims they violated federal and state false claim act laws by submitting improper claims to the state’s Medicaid program. 

The Justice Department is speaking out after Boston Children’s Hospital said it has been the target of a harassment campaign based on misinformation about its pediatric and adolescent transgender health program.

A Nebraska mother and her daughter face up to two years of prison time after the then-17-year-old took abortion pills in her third trimester and buried the fetal remains, The New York Times reported Aug. 18. 

From a health system accused of wage theft to a hospital sued over data sharing, here are the latest hospital lawsuits making headlines. 

Members of the Michigan Nurses Association are accusing the University of Michigan of unlawfully refusing to negotiate over nurses’ workloads in its bargaining with the University of Michigan Professional Nurse Council.

Here are four recent lawsuits filed by nurses that Becker’s has covered since Aug. 2: