Eleven Individuals Operating 14 Companies Charged in New Orleans Fraud...
(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - New Orleans Field Office) Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite of the Eastern District of Louisiana, Special Agent in Charge...
View ArticleLawsuits: Trump’s Doctor ‘Overmedicated’ Patients Who Died In His Care
Penning in five minutes may have been one of Dr. Harold Bornstein’s least consequential mistakes. In 2002, he paid $86,250 in 2002 to the husband of former patient to settle a lawsuit alleging that...
View ArticleComplaint against nurses in Kokrajhar civil hospital
> Allegation has been lodged with Superintendent of Kokrajhar RNB Civil Hospital against serving nurses along the hospital for mishandled of a pregnant woman during delivery hour inside OT room...
View ArticleBaby suffers fractured skull after nurse allegedly falls asleep during feeding
A Canadian mother said she is planning to sue after a nurse who was caring for her premature son allegedly fell asleep while feeding him and woke to him crying on the floor. The alleged incident left...
View ArticlePenalty rate decision opens door for pay cuts in nursing, teaching and other...
Nurses, cleaners, community, social, disability and construction workers are all at risk of having their penalty rates cut following the recent Fair Work Commission (FWC) decision. The Australian...
View ArticleLexington Home Health Agency and Estate of Deceased Owner Agree to Judgment...
(Source: United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky) LEXINGTON - Nurses' Registry and Home Health Corporation ('Nurses' Registry') and the Estate of its former owner, the...
View ArticleFederal government wins $16 million judgment against Nurses' Registry for...
Nurses' Registry and Home Health Corp. and the estate of its former owner, Lennie House, have agreed to the entry of a judgment against them for $16 million to resolve allegations of health-care fraud,...
View ArticleSenior Melbourne lawyer accused of sexual harassment over penis pictures, texts
A senior Melbourne lawyer has allegedly sent a female colleague photos of his erect penis and continuously bombarded her with unwelcome, sexually explicit text messages. The lawyer, who works at a CBD...
View ArticleDutton risked safety of asylum seeker sent to PNG for abortion, court finds
Justice Mordecai Bromberg finds the immigration minister has a duty to provide the woman, identified only as S99, with a safe and legal termination...
View ArticleSex for surgical training claims should be investigated, lawyer says
Historical reports of sexual harassment and corruption in training overseen by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons should be investigated with perpetrators held to account, a leading lawyer...
View ArticleMother calls for expanded investigation of Bacchus Marsh Hospital
Sometimes babies do not want to leave their mother's wombs. William Soutter was one of those. In 2009, Rebecca Soutter was two weeks over due with William when a doctor at Bacchus Marsh hospital...
View ArticleCoroner says bungled care at Bacchus Marsh Hospital may have led to...
Bungled medical treatment at a rural Victorian hospital may have led to the deaths of three newborns, the state coroner has found. The children's care was mishandled in near-identical ways at the...
View ArticleBacchus Marsh baby scandal: Women who lost babies likely to receive payouts,...
Women who lost babies in avoidable circumstances at Bacchus Marsh hospital are likely to be compensated by the state, a top medical negligence lawyer says. In what could turn into a multimillion-dollar...
View ArticlePeter Dutton may appeal against ruling that he risked safety of pregnant...
Immigration minister, who had the woman flown to PNG for an abortion after she was raped on Nauru, also confirms Somali asylum seeker Abyan has given birth...
View ArticleBoozing up overseas: workplace laws still apply
Boozing on after a work function and acting "inappropriately" towards another colleague on an overseas trip doesn't mean Australian workplace laws and companies' codes of conduct don't apply, a top...
View ArticleLaw firm boss allegedly 'bombarded' employee with lewd photos and texts
Maurice Blackburn is taking its client’s complaints to the Australian Human Rights Commission, alleging predatory and unlawful behaviour...
View ArticleBacchus Marsh Hospital's insurer settles with families
The families of three babies who died at Bacchus Marsh Hospital have accepted compensation from the Victorian government's insurer. But Maurice Blackburn, the law firm representing the families...
View ArticleMore victims of Bacchus Marsh hospital breakdown come forward as...
More bereaved families who had dealings with a regional Victorian hospital linked to a spate of infant deaths have come forward, as authorities widen the scope of their investigation into the matter....
View ArticleCourt approves employers' right to read your instant messages and WhatsApp
The European Court of Human Rights this week held there was no violation of an employee's right to privacy after his employer read his instant messages. Romanian engineer Bogdan Barbulescu was asked to...
View ArticleA Blank Check
Summary Because of the state of emergency, nobody will care if I kill you. I will just say I shot you while you tried to run away. -Police officer to a detainee, overheard by family members of another...
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