A former general counsel of WellCare is among five ex-executives of the Florida-based company who were indicted by a federal grand jury in an alleged Medicaid fraud that is claimed…
A Florida law firm that has been struggling since the suspension last year of founding partner Henry “Hank” Adorno was reported earlier this week to be closing its West Palm…
At Cobb Cole—where five attorneys were laid off or left of their own accord last year—the attorney roster decreased to 24, and there were staff layoffs as well.
Pay freezes, staff layoffs and reduced billing rates, as well as other signs of economic stress, are becoming commonplace in law practice, respondents to the latest Florida Bar survey say.…
A former partner of the now-defunct Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm has agreed to pay up to $500,000 to settle a bankruptcy trustee’s claim that he received excess compensation while…
A disbarred South Florida lawyer has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for mail fraud and ordered to pay $3.9 million in restitution after pleading guilty to the…
Reviewing a tragic crime scene in which two St. Petersburg police officers were killed and a deputy United States marshal was injured by an armed man hiding in the attic…
Federal authorities have arrested 111 doctors, nurses and other professionals in nine cities in what is being billed as the biggest Medicare fraud bust ever.
After news that Fannie Mae had pulled its foreclosure cases from the Ben-Ezra & Katz law firm and a name partner had been held in contempt over documents irregularities in…
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