Amid overdose crisis, Marylanders need health care, not handcuffs
Despite their superficial appeal, drug-induced homicide laws will not bring true justice to Marylanders impacted by tragic ...
Care Quality Commission6d
CQC prosecutes Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust after it failed to provide safe care and treatment to mothers and their babies
CQC has prosecuted the trust after mistakes it admitted meant the following three mothers and their babies, did not receive safe care and treatment in its maternity services at Nottingham City ...
A Hertel & Brown physical therapist tried to fight FBI. She is latest to take a plea deal
Ten of the 21 defendants in the healthcare fraud case now have reached plea deals with the U.S. Attorney's Office ahead of ...
The Economist8d
It increasingly looks as if Lucy Letby’s conviction was unsafe
I S LUCY LETBY guilty? The question has persisted since August 2023, when a jury found the nurse had murdered seven babies ...
USA Today14d
With another new filing, a third of defendants in Hertel & Brown case now have plea deals
The case is the largest-ever white-collar prosecution in Erie ... U.S. District Judge Susan Paradise Baxter to a felony count ...
Today's the first step on Lucy Letby's road to freedom...and this is the smoking gun that will turbocharge the dismantling of her case, by NADINE DORRIES
It was his (co-authored) 1989 academic paper on air emboli ('blockages') in the bloodstream of a newborn that was used by Dr Evans in the 2023 trial to explain how Lucy Letby targeted some of the ...
The Independent15d
What is the 'new medical evidence' against Lucy Letby's conviction - and can she re-appeal?
But her legal team applied on Monday to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC ... reasons including natural causes and “bad medical care”. The expert panel also challenged the prosecution’s claim ...
The Hill15d
New York further shields abortion pill prescribers from out-of-state prosecutions
Kathy Hochul signed legislation Monday to protect the identities of health care providers prescribing ... The case appears to be the first time criminal charges have been issued against a doctor ...
N.Y. doctor charged with prescribing abortion pills to Louisiana girl
A New York doctor was indicted Friday with prescribing a Louisiana girl pills that caused an abortion — seemingly the first time an abortion doctor has been criminally charged since Roe v. Wade was ov ...
The New York Times19d
New York Doctor Indicted in Louisiana for Sending Abortion Pills There
The case appears to be the first time criminal charges have been filed ... Doctors, nurse practitioners and other health care providers in states with shield laws have been sending more than ...
JD Supra20d
Lessons from Hospital Criminal Prosecution for Larger Health Systems and Provider Groups
According to the indictment, CRMC received approximately $18.5 million in reimbursements from health care benefit programs over that time for procedures performed by the former physician at the ...
The Hill20d
Trump appeals hush money criminal conviction
It remains unclear if the appeal will proceed while Trump is in the White House. Legal experts largely agree a sitting president is protected from criminal prosecution.