Dec142010
Last week a judicial panel announced that all pretrial proceedings in federal lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson relating to recalled hip replacement devices will be overseen by U.S. District Judge David A. Katz in a federal court in Toledo, Ohio. The judge will supervise the evidence-gathering efforts in the case. Johnson & Johnson’s DePuy Orthopaedics [...]
Apr162010
Rush University Medical Center in Illinois has settled allegations made in a whistleblower lawsuit that the provider made real estate deals with physicians and medical groups in violation of the Stark Law. The Stark law forbids Medicare payments to hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services and other services such as lab work and radiology when [...]
