Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

Knoxville-based East Tennessee Children’s Hospital is facing a lawsuit after a number of patients’ personal health information was exposed in a March 2022 data breach, 10News reported June 2. 

A group of healthcare providers in Florida filed a lawsuit June 1 to block the state’s new abortion ban, according to The Hill. 

The family of a nursing assistant killed by a co-worker in October at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital has filed a lawsuit against the hospital alleging wrongful death and negligence. 

As more hospitals and health systems mandated COVID-19 vaccination for their employees, lawsuits arose related to the policies.

A father and son formerly employed by Kaiser Permanente were sentenced May 27 for a scheme they operated from 2010 to 2018 to defraud the health system, resulting in the loss of $1.5 million.

Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center is accused of violating state law by firing a new employee, along with two executives who helped hire her, over concerns about her political views and activism work, according to the Times Union.

From a health system facing an antitrust lawsuit to a Georgia hospital accused of disability discrimination, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines. 

A lawsuit filed by UPMC McKeesport (Pa.), part of Pittsburgh-based UPMC, over union claims that the hospital owes about $300,000 in pension contributions has been dismissed, according to a May 26 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report.

HHS has formally withdrawn a rule that would have required the department to widely review its regulations and potentially void a number of them.

The Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission filed a lawsuit accusing Atlanta-based Grady Memorial Hospital of failing to accommodate the disability of an employee and then firing her because of her disability.