Medical Malpractice Law
 
United States of America v. Nathan Pehrson

Salt Lake City, Utah criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with three counts related to fraudulently obtaining and tampering with the pain killing narcotic hydromorphone, a powerful schedule II opioid drug that is used to treat patients with moderate to severe pain.

During Pehrson’s employment as a nurse at an Intermountain Healthcare facility on a surgical and trauma wa

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United States of America v. Roy Allen Shostak

Great Falls, Montana criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with possession with intent to distribute drugs.

Roy Allen Shostak, a 28 year-old resident of Polson, was indicted for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.

Prosecutors presented evidence that in May 2020, Helena Police Department and members of the Missouri River Drug Task Force receiv

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ISABELLA NARTEY v. FRANCISCAN HEALTH HOSPITAL

Chicago, IL - Medical Malpractice lawyer represented defendant with claiming treatment did not comply with federal and state law claim.



During the afternoon of August 3, 2016, paramedics
rushed Millicent Nartey to the hospital after she complained
of being unable to support her weight. She arrived at Francis‐
can

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JACOB K. WESSEL,

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a being a felon in possession of a firearm charge.



On August 11, 2016, when Wessel was about 31, someone
reported to police that he talked about suicide and stole a car.
When police found the car and Wessel, he ran. They cornered
him and ordered him

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United States of America v. Bluewater Toxicology, LLC

Lexington, Kentucky clinical laboratory represented by a civil litigation lawyer accused of violating the False Claims Act, a federal law that prohibits submitting false or fraudulent claims to the federal government.

The Unites States alleged three issues relating to claims for urine drug testing services that Bluewater Toxicology, LLC submitted to Medicare, Kentucky Medicaid, Indiana Me

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. TRAVIS TUGGLE

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with conspiring to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, at least 50 grams of methamphetamine and at least 500 grams of a mixture containing methamphetamine charges.




Between 2013 and 2016, several law enforcement agencies
investigated a large me

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. ROSS THACKER

Chicago, IL - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with two violations (commercial robbery) and two accompanying violations for using and carrying a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence charges.



Ross Thacker and a friend committed several armed robberies in and around Champaign, Illinois in 2002. Federal

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Richard Gore Betty Tayor, et al.

¶1 The dispositive issue presented for review in this abuse of process action filed by the counterclaimants is whether the third-party plaintiff's challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence should have been sustained and a verdict directed for the third-party plaintiff.

¶2 We answer in the affirmative and reverse the judgment appealed.

I

¶3 Underlying the lawsuit -

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United States of America v. William R. Bauer

Cleveland, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with prescribing powerful controlled substances, including opioids, to patients without medical necessity and outside the usual course of medical practice.

Evidence presented at trial established that between 2015 and 2019, Bauer, at his practice in Bellevue, Ohio, repeatedly prescribed controlled substances including

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United States of America v. Howard L. Young

Nashville, Tennessee criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with running a Ponzi scheme.

Howard L. Young, 75, the founder of a Nashville-based holistic wellness business was charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Young was charged in a criminal Information in October 2020 with four counts of bank fraud; six counts of wire fraud; and ag

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. BRIAN BROADFIELD

Milwaukee, WI - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a compassionate release claim.



The district court denied the application, giving three reasons. First, the judge found that Broadfield’s documented
medical conditions do not include asthma and that his wheezing appears to be the result of allergies rath

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MONDELEZ GLOBAL LLC, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD and BAKERY, CONFECTIONARY, TOBACCO WORKERS AND GRAIN MILLERS INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL 719, AFL-CIO

Milwaukee, WI - Labor lawyer represented defendant with a unfair labor practices charge.



Mondelez, an Illinois corporation, makes Ritz crackers,
Oreo cookies, and other baked goods at its production plant
in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.1 Local 719—a chapter of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. GILBERT MANNING

Milwaukee, WI - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana and distribution of marijuana charges.



Manning pleaded guilty in 2013 to conspiracy to distribute
and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, see 21 U.S.C.
§ 841(a)(1), (b)(

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Larry Shearburn v. Equifax Information Services, LLC, Experian Information Solutions, Inc., Trans Union, LLC, NewRez, LLC and Nationstar Mortgage, LLC

Dallas, Texas consumer credit lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendants on Fair Credit Reporting Act violation theories.

The claims made and defenses asserted by the parties are not available.

The Act (Title VI of the Consumer Credit Protection Act) protects information collected by consumer reporting agencies such as credit bureaus, medical information companies and tena

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Martin Pena v. Care Inn of Edna LLC, et al.

Dallas, Texas personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, individually and as representative of the Estate of Jose Pena, who sued Defendants, doing business as Edgewood Rehabilitation and Care Center medical malpractice theories claiming that Jose Pena direct as a direct result of Defendants' employees failing to exercise due care in caring for and treating Mr Pena.

The claims made an

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United States of America v. John Paul Cook

Asheville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with defrauding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (the VA) by receiving nearly $1 million in veteran benefits based on fraudulent claims of service-connected disabilities.

According to the criminal indictment, filed plea documents and admissions made in court, John Paul Cook, age 57, enlisted in the Un

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United States ex rel. Pennetti v. Interface Rehab, et al.

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with violation of False Claims Act by causing the submission of claims to Medicare for rehabilitation therapy services that were not reasonable or necessary.

During the relevant time period, Medicare reimbursed skilled nursing facilities at a daily rate that reflected the skilled therapy and nursing needs of qua

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MURRAY ROJAS

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with causing prescription animal drugs to become misbranded charge.



We write solely for the parties and so recite only the facts necessary to our
disposition. Pennsylvania thoroughbred horse racing regulations include the following
rule: “A person acti

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JUAN LUGO

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine charge.



After exhausting his administrative remedies within the Bureau of Prisons, in July
2020, Lugo filed his motion seeking compassionate release based on “extraordinary and
compell

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. MAHMOUD AGUIBI

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with five counts of Hobbs Act robbery, and two counts of using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to two of the robberies chargse.



In the fall of 2015, Aguibi robbed ten deliverymen at gunpoint in Philadelphia. He
pleaded guilty in the

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JERRY FRUIT

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant Jerry Fruit with a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine charge.



In October 2020, Fruit filed a motion for compassionate release under 18 U.S.C.
§ 3582(c)(1)(A). He sought release from prison because of an alleged h

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. CHRISTOPHER BEREZNAK

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant Christopher Bereznak with a unlawful distribution and dispensing of a controlled substance charge.



Bereznak was a dentist licensed to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
As a dentist, he could prescribe controlled substances to his patients. Berezna

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United States of America v. Angel Castro

Denver, Colorado criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant who was charged with possessing a firearm after previously being convicted of a felony.

After threatening another individual on social media over the course of several days, Castro shot the person in the back of the head. The shooting occurred on July 10, 2020, while the victim was driving his car in Pueblo. Because he was ab

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United States and the State of California ex rel. Martin Mansukhani v. Prime Healthcare Services, Inc., et al.

Los Angeles, California civil litigation lawyers represented Defendants charged with violations of the False Claims Act and the California False Claims Act.

Prime Healthcare Services and Two Doctors Agree to Pay $37.5 Million to Settle Allegations of Kickbacks, Billing for a Suspended Doctor, and False Claims for Implantable Medical Hardware

One of the largest hospital systems i

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. SHANTELL LAMONT JONES

Philadelphia, PA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with two counts of drug possession and distribution charges.



In 2012, at age 39, Shantell Lamont Jones twice sold powder cocaine to a
confidential informant in Erie, Pennsylvania. A federal grand jury indicted him, and he
pleaded guilty to two counts of

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