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False Claims Act Decisions to Know from Q3 2023

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 10/19/2023

Below are noteworthy False Claims Act (FCA) decisions from the third quarter of 2023. The main issues in the cases are: Materiality. The Fourth Circuit held that a pharmacist’s efforts to falsify patient eligibility...more

This Week in 340B: June 2023 #4

McDermott Will & Emery on 6/28/2023

This weekly series provides brief summaries to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets on more than 40 340B cases to provide you with a quick...more

Lawsuits Reinforce Importance of Health Care Websites being HIPAA Compliant

Harris Beach PLLC on 3/27/2023

After dozens of class-action lawsuits filed against health care providers across the country alleging their websites shared patient information with social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram, providers are again urged...more

Class Action Decisions Published January 2023

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. on 2/10/2023

Highlights from this issue include: Class Action Fairness Act. The jurisdiction of the Class Action Fairness Act does not apply when “the primary defendants are States, State officials, or other governmental entities...more

Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against New York State for Failure to Provide Legally Required Mental Health Services to...

Proskauer - Proskauer For Good on 3/31/2022

Proskauer, in conjunction with attorneys from Children’s Rights, Disability Rights New York, and the National Health Law Program, have filed a class action lawsuit against New York officials in response to the mental health...more

#WorkforceWednesday: SCOTUS in Review, Biden Acts to Limit Non-Competes, NY HERO Act Model Safety Plans - Employment Law This...

Epstein Becker & Green on 7/14/2021

Welcome to #WorkforceWednesday. This week, we recap the U.S. Supreme Court’s term and its impact on employers. U.S. Supreme Court Employment Law Decisions in Review (see video attached) The Supreme Court’s term ended on...more

June 2021: The Top 19 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 7/7/2021

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2021

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 3/1/2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 2 (February 2021) - The Florida Healthy Kids Corporation (FHKC), a Medicaid managed care plan, said one of its vendors, Jelly Bean Communications Design, experienced a security incident...more

COVID-19: Will Maine’s Long-term Care Facilities Become Targets for Class Action Litigation?

Pierce Atwood LLP on 9/17/2020

Long-term care facilities have seen some of the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic since it erupted in March. In Maine, residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities make up a large portion of the state’s total...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 3/28/2019

Monsanto’s (and, in turn, Bayer AG’s) terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day in court over its Roundup products’ links to cancer continued yesterday, as a jury awarded $80 million to the California man who it had already...more

Northern District Federal Court Orders Presumptive Eligibility for Medicaid Applicants for Long Term Care Services

Polsinelli on 4/12/2018

A recent ruling by Judge Gotschall in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division made it abundantly clear that the state has 90 days to bring its procedures for processing...more

Lawsuit Filed by Kentucky Medicaid Beneficiaries Challenges Work Requirement Changes

King & Spalding on 1/31/2018

On January 24, 2018, advocacy groups filed a lawsuit on behalf of a group of Kentucky Medicaid recipients in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking class action status in an effort to stop new work...more

Health Update - September 2015

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 9/25/2015

Latest Healthcare False Claims Act Roundup and Top 3 Best Practices to Reduce Exposure - As the legal landscape in healthcare becomes increasingly complex, healthcare companies that receive federal program funds face...more

NCTracks Derailed: Class Action Lawsuit Filed!

Williams Mullen on 1/16/2014

My law partner Camden Webb and I filed a class action lawsuit today alleging on behalf of medical providers who accept Medicaid in North Carolina. ...more

Florida Court Allows Plaintiff Extensive Communication with Putative Class Members

BakerHostetler on 11/8/2013

A recent decision from the Southern District of Florida denied a motion seeking to limit plaintiffs’ ability to contact putative class members to solicit support and evidence in support of a class certification motion. In...more

Seventh Circuit Rules that Medical Necessity Trumps State-Imposed Cap on “Optional” Medicaid Coverage

Cozen O'Connor on 10/24/2012

In a class action lawsuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit recently affirmed a lower court decision granting a preliminary injunction that prevented the state of Indiana from enforcing a $1,000 annual cap on...more

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