Just last week, a judge approved a $10 million settlement for the family of a California Highway Patrol officer in a Toyota sudden acceleration lawsuit. The officer and three others died when their car sped out of control and crashed in 2009. According to a March 2 lawsuit filed by the victim’s family, the vehicle [...]
Two cardiologists from the Minneapolis Heart Institute who were the first to speak out about a dangerous defect in a Guidant, Inc. heart defibrillator have asked the U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank to reject a $296 million settlement agreement. Minnesota physicians Barry Maron and Robert Hauser say that the plea deal does not hold Guidant [...]
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 [...]
