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Daily Report Online

Feds, California Sue Georgia's Access Medical for Alleged Kickback Scheme

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
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Law.com

Sudafed, Benadryl and NyQuil Targeted With Class Action Alleging Inefficacy of OTC Decongestants

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
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Daily Report Online

Ga. Lawyers Get $13.75M Settlement for Feds, Patient in Cologuard Kickbacks Suit

"I feel proud that we were able to obtain it for Dr. [Niles] Rosen and the American taxpayers, but I believe that it could have been more had he not had to deal with the advisory opinion that was issued very late in the case and shortly before trial, which directly impacted our claims," said plaintiff attorney Brandon Peak of Peak Wooten McDaniel & Colwell in Columbus, Ga.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

'Remember Why You Wanted to Be a Lawyer': LGBTQ Jurists Give Advice on Facing Adversity in the Courts

"I think a part of what people in the LGBT community did after marriage equality was say 'OK, we're done' and check out," family law practitioner Bary Hausrath said. "We need everybody to check back in with great urgency."
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Connecticut Law Tribune

'They Are Coming Forward': Litigation Rising Against Yale Clinic Over Fentanyl

"The painkiller diversion went on for a matter of years, during which they ignored evidence of diversion and left countless patients in the dark about the truth of what had happened to them," Josh Koskoff, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, claimed.
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The Recorder

Cooley Hires Foley & Lardner Health Care Transactions Leader

Alexis Bortniker, who spent more than a decade at Foley & Lardner, joined Cooley as a partner in San Diego.
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Law.com

Feds' False Claims Act Lawsuit Against Regeneron Gets Partial Go-Ahead for Trial

"The government, like any litigant, is entitled to attempt to prove its case through circumstantial evidence and reasonable inferences," the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled.
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Updated: Cigna to Pay $172 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations

"Medicare Advantage plans that submit false information to increase payments from CMS show blatant disregard for the integrity of these vital federal health care funds," Christian J. Schrank, deputy inspector general for investigations with the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services, said. "Such actions are an affront to the Medicare program and the millions of patients who rely on its services. Working with our law enforcement partners, our agency will continue to prioritize investigating alleged fraud that targets the Medicare Advantage program."
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Law.com

Federal Judge Partially Sides With Mass General Brigham in 6 Plaintiffs' ADA Claims Against COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

"Nonetheless, the difficulty here—at least for present purposes—is that this case involves both a set of high-level judgments by MGB (that is, whether to require vaccinations generally, whether to permit exemptions under certain circumstances, and if so, according to what procedures) and a series of separate low-level individual judgments (that is, whether a particular employee qualified for a particular exemption)," U.S. District Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV wrote.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Beware of the Language Used in Your Settlement Agreements: Medicare Is Watching

The workers' compensation practitioner has now become a forced bedfellow of CMS, like it or not. If you fail to "issue spot" in relevant settlements, you will have problems.
8 minute read

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