Boston Injury Lawyer Blog
According to a whistleblower lawsuit, Quest Diagnostics and Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings committed Medicaid fraud by billing the program in Virginia a higher rate than other customers. Quest is the largest operator of medical labs in the United States.
Hunter Laboratories LLC and its CEO Chris Riedel submitted the whistleblower complaint. They contend that the two companies submitted false claims for payment of laboratory tests that were Medicaid covered by falsely presenting that the fees charged were not any higher than the maximum payable under regulations in Virginia, where the program was located. The plaintiffs claim that Quest billed Medicaid up to $10.42 for an automated hemogram, even though others were billed as little as $1.42 for the common blood test.
The Medicare fraud lawsuit is accusing LabCorp. of billing Medicaid fees way over what Premier Inc. purchasing collective members were charged. Riedel and Hunter have also filed fraud claims against the two companies in Georgia.
Product manufacturers, designers, distributors, wholesalers, and sellers are liable for making sure that their consumer products are not only manufactured correctly, but are safe for consumption or use. The scope of those injured or killed by consumer products is overwhelming; and the CPSC estimates that tens of thousands of people fall victim to various types of faulty consumer products each year-from children’s toys to automobiles to household appliances. When merchants fail to fulfill this obligation, and someone is seriously injured or is killed, the injured victims and their family members are entitled to file a claim against responsible parties.
Fan safety has been a very important topic in professional sports, as fan injuries have become more and more prevalent at sports stadiums. Also this weekend, some rowdy fans from the University of Maryland were injured after a section of bleachers collapsed at Ludwig Field during a soccer match against Duke. Last month a 30-year old Atlanta Braves fan died during a baseball game at Turner Field when he fell nearly 70 feet from the upper viewing deck.
In her lawsuit, Jorge and her attorney Clyde D. Bergstresser alleged that medical professionals at Emerson Hospital failed to review Jorge’s pertinent history, appropriately monitor and report vital signs, appropriately examine Jorge’s wound post C-section, and appropriately report the seriousness of the patient’s condition, which thus led to Jorge needing all limbs be amputated. Bergstresser also cited in Jorge’s lawsuit that Jorge had to have over 40 intensive surgeries, including the removal of some of her internal organs. She had to have her uterus, ovaries, gallbladder, and part of her colon removed in addition to both of her arms and legs, removed. 
According to the Department of Health and Human Services, a neurosurgical patient treated at the New Hampshire hospital is suspected to have had sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a degenerative neurological disease caused by a prion, a defective protein. Officials at the hospital believe that the prion may have been transmitted to patients through surgical equipment that was not fully sterilized. During normal sterilization procedures, these prions may not be fully eradicated.
One of the three teens had apparently fallen off the tube after it passed over the wake, and as the driver went to pick the young man up, he drove toward the tube with two of the teens still on it. The boat struck one of the teens, and continued over him.
