A Connecticut lawyer has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of mail fraud and conspiring to commit mail fraud as part of a claimed $2.5 million auto insurance scheme.
An Ohio family has sued the University of Toledo Medical Center, saying that the hospital “botched” the planned transplant of a kidney donated by one sibling to another sibling by…
A New York law that authorizes court-ordered outpatient treatment for serious mental illness has cut costs and reduced hospitalizations and arrests, a new study has concluded.
A New York Supreme Court judge got it right earlier this year when he invalidated a New York City ban on selling soda and other sugary drinks in cups over…
An Indiana jury awarded $1.44 million Friday to a customer whose prescription records were provided by a Walgreen’s pharmacist to the customer’s ex-boyfriend.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges in two lawsuits that employers violated federal genetic discrimination law by asking about family medical history in required physical exams.
While the Hobby Lobby’s legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act is ongoing, it won’t be fined for not providing employees with emergency contraceptive coverage, as the law mandates, a…
After a two-month trial and two days of deliberation, a Nevada physician and a nurse anesthetist were convicted Monday of multiple criminal counts concerning a 2007 outbreak of Hepatitis C…
A federal judge told California officials on Monday that they must move several thousand inmates at two prisons who are at risk of contracting a potentially deadly airborne fungus known…
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of a Massachusetts law that bars people from entering 35-foot buffer zones around abortion clinics, unless they are employees or agents of…
A trial over the death of pop singer Michael Jackson could, if his family’s lawsuit against a concert promoter is successful, result in a verdict of millions or even billions…
AIDS-fighting groups can’t be forced to adopt policies opposing prostitution and sex trafficking as a condition of receiving federal money, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a 6-2 decision.
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