The federal Food and Drug Administration has opened a criminal investigation into a closely held Virginia-based company that has been blamed for a salmonella outbreak that allegedly sickened more than…
Breaking away from reports of attorney layoffs, this week we spoke to four law firms taking advantage of the recent spate of law firm mergers and downsizing to hire pools…
The Georgia peanut plant linked to an outbreak of salmonella sold its products despite a dozen internal tests over the last two years that indicated contamination with the disease, according…
Fellow residents in Edith Frederickson’s own government-sponsored retirement complex in Belmont, Calif., helped spark an anti-smoking law that may be the nation’s strictest.
An Illinois judge has ordered a tuberculosis patient to undergo treatment while confined to his residence and to wear a global positioning device to ensure compliance.
Two registered nurses who blew the whistle on an alleged Medicare fraud by a major hospice provider have sparked a record $24.7 million settlement with the U.S. government by their…
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has announced it will pay $1.42 billion in a settlement and fines to resolve state and federal allegations that it illegally marketed its anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa.
In what the 2nd Circuit describes in a written opinion as a close case, the appeals court has upheld a lower court decision to award no attorney fee to a…
Some doctors are better than others at treating certain conditions, as other physicians and sophisticated patients know. Likewise, some hospitals do better than others at treating difficult cases, studies show.
Finding that a one-year-old Amish boy will die if he doesn’t have heart surgery, a New York judge has ordered that it be performed despite his parents’ refusal to consent,…
Most individuals convicted of Medicare fraud get about 2½ years in prison, on average. But a Florida physician who aggravated a judge by lying on the stand got a lot…
Catherine Skol had already had four other children. But delivering the fifth was the most painful experience she has ever had, she contends–and she’s hired a high-profile Illinois personal injury…