Category: Legal & Regulatory Issues

A pharmacist in Houston was convicted for her role in a pill mill pharmacy that unlawfully dispensed more than 100,000 opioid pills in exchange for cash.

A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment against an executive at three different healthcare staffing agencies in the Las Vegas area, charging him with wage fixing and wire fraud. 

A Florida osteopathic physician was ordered to pay $20 million to the family of a patient who died while being treated for acute pancreatitis, Palm Beach Post reported Sept. 14.

Denver Health and individual defendants are being sued over alleged lack of care to an incarcerated man who later died in his cell, according to a Sept. 13 Denver Post report.

Physicians and women in Idaho, Oklahoma and Tennessee are filing lawsuits against their respective states over abortion bans, saying they were denied the procedure despite dangerous pregnancy complications, ABC News reported Sept. 12.

Bipartisan legislation that would make it a federal crime to knowingly assault hospital workers was introduced in the U.S. Senate on Sept. 12.

Two former executives of Mercy Iowa City are suing the hospital for allegedly shorting their severance payments, The Gazette reported Sept. 12. 

Current and former employees have accused Midvale, Utah-based Highland Ridge Hospital of allowing on patients and pressuring staff not to report them to police, Fox affiliate KSTU reported Sept. 7.

The Center for Reproductive Rights has filed a complaint with HHS that accuses Oklahoma Children’s Hospital of denying an abortion to a woman with a “dangerous” and “nonviable” pregnancy. 

Seattle-based UW Medicine lost a patient’s tumor before it could be tested for cancer, according to a lawsuit filed by the patient, who is suing the hospital for medical negligence.