A recently unsealed federal whistleblower lawsuit accuses Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast of turning in over 87,000 reimbursement claims to Medicaid that were either “false, fraudulent, or ineligible.” Abby K. Johnson, the plaintiff, is an ex-director at one of the defendant’s clinics. She says she had “system-wide” access to billing activities…
An 18-month-old boy was found in a lake behind his Worcester home after wandering away from his mother and slipping out the back door. The boy managed to exit through a door in the family’s living room that had been left ajar, and he was found unconscious in the water…
18-year-old Aaron Deveau claims that he wasn’t texting while driving when his vehicle swerved over the center line to collide head-on with the auto driven by Donald Bowley in February 2011. The 55-year-old man sustained severe traumatic brain injuries and died more than two weeks after the crash. Bowley’s 58-year-old…
A 2010 graduate of Newton South High School, Lucas Voss-Kernan, was on a “dream road trip” with friends when he fell from an abandoned fuel tank and died. The incident occurred on Friday at Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington. The area has seen a number of accidents at the…
A two-year-old girl is reportedly in good condition after falling three-and-a-half stories from a window of her Chelsea home. A police spokesman commented on the incident Monday night after the girl had been transported to Massachusetts General Hospital and was reported to be recovering from nonlife-threating injuries. Chelsea Police Captain…
Aqua-Leisure Industries Inc., a manufacturer based in Avon Massachusetts, is recalling about 40,000 First Fitness® Trampolines with Handlebars over concerns that they pose a fall hazard to kids. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s Web site, metal fatigue can lead to the handlebar coming off the trampoline, potentially posing…
A Malden, Massachusetts resident has filed a Boston injury lawsuit over the Salmonella Bareilly infection she says was caused by eating raw tuna. The woman is one of over 300 people whose food poisoning has been linked to the “Nakaochi Scrape” tuna. More than two dozen of the incidents are…
Two years after Justin Cosby, 21, was fatally shot during a drug-related robbery at a Harvard University dormitory, his mother, Denise Cosby, is suing the Cambridge institution for his Massachusetts wrongful death. Justin, who wasn’t a Harvard student, was a drug dealer. He had gone to the dorm to sell…
71-year-old Marie Stewart, and Everett crossing guard, is reportedly in critical condition after she was hit by a Massachusetts Water Resources Authority pickup truck this morning. Stewart reportedly has been hemorrhaging on both sides of her head following the Middlesex County pedestrian accident. The driver of the truck that struck…
Another plaintiff is suing for personal injuries from a transvaginal mesh device. Stacey Pangborn claims she developed prolapse and incontinence and experienced serious pain in her pelvis, abdomen, and vagina after the device failed. The defendants of her defective medical device lawsuit are Johnson & Johnson and Ethicon. If you…