Two women who say they were sexually assaulted by an intensive care nurse sued St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado, alleging it should have known about the nurse's actions. Christopher Lambros, RN, was previously arrested and charged criminally with sexual assault. Prosecutors said Lambros would record himself sexually abusing female patients while they were unconscious. (AP)
New York orthopedic surgeon Andrew Dowd, MD, was convicted for his role in a trip-and-fall fraud scheme. Dowd and lawyer George Constantine allegedly recruited poor and vulnerable people to stage trip-and-fall accidents -- typically at sites such as cellar doors, cracks in sidewalks, and potholes in front of commercial establishments -- and then undergo medically unnecessary surgeries that were designed to increase the value of personal injury lawsuits. Constantine filed nearly 200 fraudulent lawsuits and earned more than $5 million in settlements, while Dowd earned more than $3.2 million for performing unnecessary knee and shoulder arthroscopies, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Several former patients of Indiana physician Edward Harlamert, MD, are suing him for what they allege are misdiagnoses and unnecessary cardiac procedures that resulted in severe and permanent physical injuries. (WTHR)
A jury in Texas awarded a woman and her husband just over $10 million for a hospital's failure to treat an epidural hematoma in a timely manner, which left her paralyzed from the chest...
Over the last year, beyond traditional healthcare and federal procurement matters, the government has pursued federal False Claims Act (FCA) investigations and enforcement across high-risk areas, i...