A legal assistant testified Friday that a lawyer accused of misappropriating fen-phen settlement money told her to destroy legal documents showing how clients were paid.
A Texas appellate court today has overturned a verdict against Merck & Co. concerning its popular Vioxx painkiller, eliminating the $26 million judgment that remained after a previous $253 million…
An identical twin who discovered, as an adult, that she had been sent home from a Canary Islands hospital in Spain with the wrong family has sued over the alleged…
The city attorney in Santa Fe, N.M., is investigating claims that wireless Internet signals are a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act because they can cause an allergic reaction.
A Nashville, Tenn.-based managed care company disclosed Wednesday that an employee’s laptop computer, which contained private data for about 9,000 individuals, had been stolen from a locked car.
The Texas Court of Appeals has overturned a multimillion-dollar verdict against the maker of Vioxx, citing insufficient evidence that the painkiller caused the heart attack that killed the plaintiff’s husband.
News media throughout the country have focused in recent years on the issue of substandard health care for prison inmates. Some 65 deaths annually in California, for instance, reportedly could…
So-called disruptive doctors—the kind who scream, criticize and otherwise make colleagues’ lives miserable—can be effectively dealt with, a medical publication says. And, in an article that may be of interest…
A California state appeals court has revived tort claims by eight fertility clinic patients against the university hospital where doctors reportedly implanted eggs stolen from unsuspecting women into other infertile…
A Whirlpool Corp. plant in southern Indiana has suspended 39 workers, claiming the employees were in fact smokers even though they claimed on their health insurance that they had kicked…
A class action suit claiming the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs isn’t doing enough to prevent suicide or providing adequate medical care for vets is scheduled for trial today in…