Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

A French advertising company that worked on Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin account agreed to pay $350 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of falsely marketing opioids as safe and unable to be abused.

A California man convicted multiple times for healthcare fraud was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his latest scheme. 

Chillicothe, Ohio-based Adena Health System is facing a lawsuit that accuses it of sharing patient information with third parties, ClassAction.org reported Jan. 30. 

Columbia, Md.-based MedStar has reached an agreement with the Justice Department after allegedly depriving individuals with disabilities access to medical care by excluding the presence of their support persons.

A patient wielding a knife was shot and killed by an officer at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Georgia, Atlanta News First reported Jan. 30.

Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Health received a bomb threat Jan. 25, targeting a new inpatient tower under construction, the institution confirmed to Becker’s Jan. 30. 

St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Johns Hopkins All Children’s filed a motion on Jan. 25 that aims to let the hospital hold off on a payment for its civil case that was made famous by a Netflix documentary, ABC7 reported Jan. 26. 

In a medical malpractice case about a 45-minute delayed cesarean section, a judge upheld ordering a Penn Medicine hospital to pay $183 million, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Jan. 29. 

An employee at Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee was stabbed in the emergency department early Jan. 29, according to police. 

From an Illinois system settling antitrust allegations to a judge lowering the damages in the Johns Hopkins All Children’s civil case made famous by a documentary, here are 10 lawsuits, settlements and legal developments Becker’s has reported since Jan…