Articles Tagged With: lawsuit
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EEOC Sues Hospital for Mandatory Exams for Employees at Age 70 Years
A lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges one facility's late career practitioner policy is illegal because it singles out individuals for testing based only on their age, not any suspicion about a decline in cognitive or physical abilities.
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ED Med/Mal Claims Can Become Licensing Board Actions Quickly
To avoid issues with state licensing boards in the event of malpractice litigation, one expert suggests EPs check whether their professional liability insurance covers representation for a board action.
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Federal Court Vacates HHS ‘Conscience Rule’
Rule could have allowed healthcare workers to refuse to participate in or administer certain procedures on religious or moral grounds.
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Nurse Wrestles Mother into Position — Injury Results
Caroline Malatesta’s birth experience at Brookwood Medical Center in Birmingham, AL, was the opposite of what she expected. She chose the hospital because it promised a gentler birth experience but, instead, ended up injured from a nurse forcing her into a delivery position that she did not want.
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Worker Fired in NFL Player Incident Sues Hospital
A secretary fired from Jackson Health System in Miami for accessing the medical record of New York Giants’ football player Jason Pierre-Paul is suing Miami-Dade County’s public hospital network. She claims she did not access the patient record and that the health system defamed and libeled her.
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Hospital Worker Fired After Record Leak Files Lawsuit
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Thousands of Patients Seek Testing After Healthcare Worker Charged with Drug Diversion
In an all-too-familiar scenario, a healthcare worker charged with diverting drugs in Colorado had a history of moving from facility to facility, which has prompted several other facilities to advise thousands of patients to get tested for bloodborne pathogens.
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Assaults on Anesthetized Patients Lead to Lawsuits
The assaults and pending litigation have raised concerns among surgery providers about how best to protect vulnerable patients.
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Tenet to pay $238 million for false claims
Tenet Healthcare in Dallas has agreed to pay $238 million to resolve a False Claims Act lawsuit involving alleged kickbacks for maternity referrals by four of its hospitals.
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Facility sued over claims of sexual abuse, harassment
A healthcare facility is facing a lawsuit, as is a physician and a nurse anesthetist, in a case in which professionals are accused of sexual abuse and sexual harassment.