July 10, 2012
Two whistleblowers who once worked for a radiation clinic will get a piece of a $3.8 million settlement the company agreed to pay to resolve a false claims investigation. Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia had been accused of overbilling Medicare for treatments provided to prostate cancer patients and…
July 08, 2012
Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:
Target Home Bunny sippy cups (injury hazard - 264,000)
Christmas Tree Shops Farm Glass & Metal spiral tea light holders (fire hazard - 6,200)
Manhattan Group LLC,…
July 07, 2012
Maria Garcia underwent surgery to remove her thyroid and parathyroid glands in her neck but she never recovered from surgery. It turned out that during the procedure the anesthesiologist failed to realize the patient’s breathing tube had moved, preventing the 66-year-old woman from breathing on…
July 01, 2012
Don’t tick off the library clerk. Or at least not Diane Boerman. She was the California woman who told her bosses at the Sacramento Public Library Authority that something seemed fishy about the agency’s billings for maintenance projects. But her boss ignored her and, worse, she claimed that she…
June 24, 2012
It began with a migraine. It ended in a nightmare. In late 2006, Robyn Frankel entered the Stanford Hospital & Clinics in California where doctors ordered an angiogram to investigate an abnormal vein in Frankel’s brain to try to determine the cause of her headaches. When dye for the angiogram…
June 12, 2012
“Alarming” is how one state lawmaker sized up the situation at a struggling hospital in Brooklyn, NY. Medical errors at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center have soared, with the New York Daily News tallying the number of lawsuits pending against the facility at more than 100, including…
June 04, 2012
Several years ago, a senior financial analyst for a major healthcare plan provider in Florida grew suspicious about executives at the firm double-billing Medicare and Medicaid patients. So Sean Hellein secretly recorded conversations in which the billing practices were discussed. Then he brought…
May 27, 2012
A railroad jack falling on a worker’s foot and breaking his big toe wasn’t that big of a deal – until the Metro-North Railroad in Connecticut disciplined the worker for reporting his injury. A jury recently awarded Andy Barati $50,000 for lost earnings and pain and suffering in the incident. But…
May 18, 2012
A Brooklyn mother of three went to her local hospital complaining of pain. She was treated in the emergency room, where she was diagnosed as having kidney stones, was given a painkiller and sent home. The next day, still in pain, she called 911 but the New York Fire Department did not send an…
May 07, 2012
If there was ever any doubt that Medicare fraud is rampant, federal officials recently arrested 107 people including doctors, nurses and social workers from across the country and charged them with submitting phony claims totaling $452 million. The raid was the largest-ever for a federal strike…
April 25, 2012
Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:
Office Depot and Swinton Avenue TradingBiella Leather Desk Chairs (fall hazard - 307,000)
SR Suntour, GT, Giant and Trek bicycles with SR Suntour suspension forks (fall…
April 25, 2012
Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:
Irwin Industrial Tool Company, Classic Series circular saw blade 3-packs (laceration hazard - 55,260)
One World Technologies Inc. gas grills (burn hazard - 87,600)
XS…
April 25, 2012
Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:
FoodService Products, food service beverage cups and mugs (burn hazard - 111,000)
Sakar International Inc. Digital Concepts compact travel chargers (electric shock hazard…
April 25, 2012
Among the latest product recalls announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are the following products:
Leggett & Platt, Power foundations or adjustable bases for mattresses (fire hazard - 25,200)
Great American Opportunities Great American Opportunities arena lamps (…
March 03, 2012
Acclaimed Chicago chef Grant Achatz has reached an undisclosed settlement with a dental clinic in a missed-cancer diagnosis case. The case involved a cancerous growth in a place where it could have ended the of Achatz – it was on his tongue. Achatz years ago noticed a small, white dot on the left…