Kristen Rasmussen

January 03, 2018 | Corporate Counsel

Atlanta-based digital health care company Sharecare has hired Ami Patel, a long-time in-house attorney at McKesson Corp. in San Francisco, as its new chief legal and compliance officer.

By Kristen Rasmussen |

2 minute read

January 02, 2018 | Corporate Counsel

Kmart Corp. has agreed to pay $32.3 million to the United States to settle allegations in a qui tam lawsuit that in-store pharmacies overcharged several federal health care programs, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced.

By Kristen Rasmussen |

2 minute read

January 01, 2018 | Texas Lawyer

Covering corporate law departments and in-house attorneys for Texas Lawyer and other American Lawyer Media publications, reporter Kristen Rasmussen…

By Kristen Rasmussen

4 minute read

December 21, 2017 | New Jersey Law Journal

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. will pay $13.5 million to settle allegations by attorneys general in all 50 states and the District of Columbia that the company marketed some of its drugs for unapproved uses.

By Kristen Rasmussen |

3 minute read

December 20, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. will pay $13.5 million to settle allegations by attorneys general in all 50 states and the District of Columbia that the company marketed some of its drugs for unapproved uses.

By Kristen Rasmussen |

3 minute read

December 20, 2017 | National Law Journal

The Trump administration, House Republicans and a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general have settled their lawsuit over the legality of insurer subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. The settlement states that the parties agree that a trial judge's ruling that the House had standing to challenge the payments remains but does not “control” decisions in future litigation over this issue, clearing the way for the states' separate lawsuit.

By Kristen Rasmussen |

3 minute read

December 18, 2017 | Daily Report Online

The transcript of the 2015 disciplinary hearing offers the deepest public glimpse of an attorney's long career in the law—and how he believed he had done nothing wrong.

By Kristen Rasmussen | Mike Scarcella

7 minute read

December 13, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Lynn Barrett, the general counsel at the public North Broward Hospital District in Fort Lauderdale, is among several current and former Health Board officials charged criminally with alleged violations of the state's Sunshine Law.

By Kristen Rasmussen |

4 minute read

December 12, 2017 | Daily Report Online

A Barnes & Thornburg partner in Atlanta who faced possible disbarment for fraudulently billing a corporate client tens of thousands of dollars instead will be suspended for two years, the Georgia Supreme Court says. John F. Meyers was a Seyfath Shaw labor and employment partner at the time of the professional conduct violations.

By Mike Scarcella | Kristen Rasmussen

5 minute read

December 11, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

The husband of a woman sentenced to 75 years in prison for health care fraud received an 80-year imprisonment term for similar conduct but isn't behind bars after failing to appear at the hearing. The district court has declared the defendant, Ebong Tilong, a fugitive.

By Kristen Rasmussen |

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