By: Ted Genoways Four U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) meat inspectors, all working in slaughter operations owned or operated by the Hormel Foods Corporation, have come forward this week with shocking allegations in affidavits offered to the whistleblower protection organization Government Accountability Project (GAP). A government-run pilot program experimenting with a reduced inspection protocol in
Feds: More than 18,000 OtisKnee cutting guides were sold without FDA approval. OtisMed Corp. and its former CEO admitted to distributing knee replacement surgery cutting guides after the FDA had rejected their application for marketing clearance, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. OtisMed — now a subsidiary of Stryker — and its CEO Charlie Chi
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JAN. 15, 2015, 1:31 P.M. E.S.T SPOKANE, Wash. — A federal judge has ruled that a large industrial dairy in eastern Washington has polluted drinking water through its application, storage and management of manure, in a case that could set precedents across the nation. U.S. District Judge Thomas O. Rice of
The Alliance for Justice has produced a brief video addressing the inequity of arbitration. It’s narrated by Robert Reich and well done. Below are links to the video. Alliance for Justice’s 2014 First Monday Film Lost in the Fine Print tells the story of three everyday people who tried to seek justice when they were harmed
Bloomberg reported that the bankruptcy judge in the Fundamental Long Term Care Holdings, Inc. bankruptcy stated that Fundamental Long Term Care Holdings LLC’s owners engaged in a “carefully orchestrated sham transaction” by selling a Trans Healthcare Inc. unit in 2006 to Barry Sacks. Murray Forman and Leonard Grunstein (who pled guilty to perjury recently) were
McKnight’s reported that Skilled Healthcare Group and a Nevada hospice that it operates have been charged with submitting “tens of millions of dollars” in false Medicare and Medicaid claims, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Management at Creekside Hospice in Las Vegas used the term “chart killers” to describe documentation showing patients were improving and
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