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Tobacco Lawsuit Cites Long-Ago Cigarette Giveaways
Posted on 12 Nov 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

BOSTON - (AP) Marie Evans recalled she was 9 years old when she first started getting free cigarettes in the Boston housing project where she lived. At first, she traded them for candy, but she said she started smoking them herself at age 13. Four decades... Read More

Tags: Lorillard , Massachusetts , Edward Sweda Jr. , Food and Drug Administration , cigarettes , Newport , free cigarettes , Tobacco Control Legal Consortium , Doug Blanke , Marie Evans , African-Americans , smoking , cancer , Litigation , cigarette giveaways , lawsuit , Tobacco Product Liability Project , Federal Trade Commission , Department of Health and Human Services , tobacco

Novartis To Pay $422.5M For Off-Label Promotion Of 6 Drugs
Posted on 1 Oct 2010 by Tom Moylan

PHILADELPHIA -- Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. will pay $422.5 million in criminal and civil penalties to resolve off-label marketing allegations for six drugs, the federal government announced Sept. 30 ( United States of America v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals... Read More

Tags: False Claims Act , irritable bowel syndrome drug , antiepileptic drug Trileptal , anti-growth hormone drug , Tekturna , hypertension drugs , Diovan , Jim Austin , Litigation , Novartis. off-label marketing , lawsuit , Sandostatin , qui tam , Steve McKee , Darryl Copeland , Zelnorm , Jeremy Garrity , Department of Health and Human Services , Exforge

Supreme Court Denies Review Of Health Care Reform Suit
Posted on 9 Nov 2010 by Cheryl Keely

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 8 declined review of the first petition for writ of certiorari filed in a case challenging the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) ( Steven Baldwin, et al. v. Kathleen... Read More

Tags: Steven Baldwin v. Kathleen Sebelius , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , health care insurance , Steve Baldwin , insurance law , Department of Labor , Health Care Reform , managed care , PPACA , Litigation , Kathleen Sebelius , lawsuit , Hilda Solis , U.S. Supreme Court , Department of Transportation , Pacific Justice Institute , Timothy Geithner , Department of Health and Human Services

D.C. Circuit Says Former Purdue Pharma Execs Excludable But Questions Term
Posted on 27 Jul 2012 by Tom Moylan

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (Mealey's) The Department of Health and Human Services is authorized to exclude three former Purdue Pharma executives from participating in federal health care programs, but it must explain why it thinks they should be excluded... Read More

Tags: District of Columbia Circuit , OxyContin , health care , Michael Friedman , misbranding , Michael Friedman v. Kathleen Sebelius , Litigation , narcotic , Purdue Frederick Co. , Paul Goldenheim , Purdue Pharma , pain drug , Howard Udell , Department of Health and Human Services

Supreme Court: No Third-Party Beneficiary Lawsuits Challenging Drug Prices
Posted on 29 Mar 2011 by Cheryl Keely

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- (Mealey's) The U.S. Supreme Court on March 29 reversed a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision in finding that a federal regulation imposing ceilings on prices drug manufacturers may charge for medications sold to health... Read More

Tags: Supreme Court , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , HSRA , HHS , Health Resources and Services Administration , drug manufacturers , Astra USA Inc. v. Santa Clara County , class action , Astra , PPACA , Litigation , Ninth Circuit , Public Health Services Act , Santa Clara , Department of Health and Human Services

Plaintiffs Lack Standing To Challenge Health Care Act, 9th Circuit Affirms
Posted on 15 Aug 2011 by Cheryl Keely

SAN FRANCISCO - (Mealey's) A panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 13 affirmed a lower court ruling that plaintiffs challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Act (PPACA) lacked standing to challenge the act because they... Read More

Tags: health care , Steve Baldwin , individual mandate , Sebelius , Department of Labor , Health Care Reform , Health Insurance , 9th Circuit , PPACA , Litigation , Solis , Pacific Justice Institute , Timothy Geithner , Department of Health and Human Services

This is Real Law: Rx for Litigation: New Inpatient Rule May Lead to More Malpractice Suits
Posted on 21 Feb 2014 by Real Law Editorial Team

Our circumstances are often defined by fateful decisions. Those decisions can be our own, those made by others (with or without our knowledge or consent), or both. That’s particularly true with regard to our personal health. You climb a wonky... Read More

Tags: ObamaCare , Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act , AHA , health care , American Hospital association , CMS , Health Care Reform , medical malpractice , Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services , Litigation , AOPA , American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association , Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Joins False Claims Act Lawsuit Against Georgia Medical Center And Physician
Posted on 23 Apr 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States has intervened in a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging that Satilla Health Services Inc., dba Satilla Regional Medical Center, and Dr. Najam Azmat submitted claims for medically substandard and unnecessary services... Read More

Tags: Satilla Health Services Inc. , False Claims Act , Medicare , Lana Rogers , Satilla Heart Center , Office of Inspector General , new lawsuit filings , Dr. Najam Azmat , whistleblower , Justice Department , Medicaid , Litigation , lawsuit , qui tam , U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Georgia , Satilla Regional Medical Center , Department of Health and Human Services