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December 4, 2018

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Michigan Hospital Refuses Woman A Heart Transplant As Financially Unsound, Recommends a Go Fund Me Campaign

August 27, 2018

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Monsanto Faces Possible Punitive Damages In Roundup Case

July 25, 2018

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3 Major HIPPA Fines In 2018 So Far

July 24, 2018

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LA Hospital Settles Patient Dumping Claims

July 17, 2018

Bill Thompson Jul 17, 2018 Access to Courts, Class Action, Daily, Data Breach, Ethics, Hospitals, Medical Records, Patient Bill of Rights, Quality Fraud Comments Off

Hospital Sued By Ex Employees For Retaliatory Firings

July 10, 2018

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Delray Beach Joins Suit Against Big Pharma Over Opioid Crisis

The Cost Of Quality Fraud

Bill Thompson Jul 9, 2018 Access, Access to Courts, Class Action, Constitution, Courts, Damages, Data Breach, Medical Error, Medical Records, Negligence, Patient Bill of Rights, Quality Fraud, Weekly Comments Off

I am starting a series of posts and daily news finds on Data Breach, Quality Fraud and the reasons behind our tremendously expensive health care. Before starting that, I wanted to re-post an article I published a couple of years ago. The Radiology Regional data breach mentioned below was successfully resolved recently. The 21CO data […]

June 27, 2018

Bill Thompson Jun 27, 2018 Class Action, Daily, Data Breach, Medical Records, News Comments Off

As we close our successful Radiology Regional data breach class action, we note that the problem continues. Call us if you are a victim of data breach and identity theft of your sensitive patient information. MD Anderson’s $4.4M HIPPA violation JAMA: Ancestry DNA services and the risk of data breach

June 18, 2018

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#QualityFraud: Oxy Manufacturer Sued (Again)

Engle Fallout

Bill Thompson Jun 13, 2018 Access, Access to Courts, Class Action, Courts, Courts, Data Breach, Evidence, Health, Law, Personal Injury Trial Lawyer, Products, Weekly, Wrongful Death Comments Off

In 2006, the Florida Supreme Court decertified the class action of smokers against the tobacco industry, ruling that cases could be tried individually but laying down certain rules by which those cases would be tried. Engle v. Liggett Group, Inc., 945 S0. 2d 1246 (Fla. 2006). Decertification can happen when the Court determines that the […]

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