According to Bloomberg.com, Robert Rogers is suing his mother’s hospice provider for wrongful death and elder abuse. His 91-year-old mom Thelma Covington died of sepsis infection triggered by poor circulation and gangrene in September 2008. Just 5 days before her death, 11 maggots had to be removed from an open…
Did you know that pharmaceutical fraud is one of the most common reasons for False Claims Act recoveries? Not only that, but this type of fraud is costing taxpayers millions annually. If you are an employee working in the pharmaceutical industry and you have information about fraud being committed by…
Six years after Hunter Laboratories acted as a whistleblower to file a Medicaid Fraud Lawsuit against eight medical testing lab companies for allegedly overcharging California’s Medicaid programs and giving medical kickbacks to doctors in exchange for patient referrals, defendant LabCorp will settle the case for $49.5 million. In California ex…
Joshua Thibodeau, 12, died yesterday after he collapsed during soccer camp at Wachusett Regional High School. He was from Holden. The official cause of Thibodeau’s death is still not known at this time. At the time of his collapse, he was taking part in a “low-speed drill” at the Zalgiris…
The Food and Drug Administration has issued an urgent public notice warning health care providers and patients against using transvaginal mesh. This medical device is surgically implanted in women suffering from Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) and Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP). Now, however, following reports of 3 deaths and 3800 injuries…
Earlier this year, we published a post on our Boston Injury Lawyer Blog letting you know that patients whose medical records have been lost by a hospital have a right to file a Massachusetts breach of privacy complaint seeking damages. Having unauthorized persons obtain access to this information is no…
Massachusetts drunk driving charges have been filed in a Quincy motor vehicle accident that killed one man and seriously injured two other people early Sunday. The head-on car collision took place at around 12:30am. According to police, Plymouth resident Anthony Deicicchi was headed south on Quincy Shore Drive when his…
According to a study published in the journal HealthAffairs, plaintiffs abandon the majority of medical malpractice lawsuits before they are resolved in court or with a settlement. The main reasons for this are costs and finding out that a case is not as solid as initially thought. The findings in…
The Massachusetts Port Authority is asking that it be dropped from the wrongful death case filed by Bavis family. Mark Bavis was on United Airlines Flight 175 when terrorists flew it into one of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001. In their wrongful death case, the Bavis…
According to authorities, the body of Maria Joseph went undetected for two days in a Massachusets public pool even as swimmers continued to use it. It wasn’t until Tuesday evening that teenagers saw her floating body in the Vietnam Veterans Swimming Pool in Fall River. Joseph, 36, had gone swimming…