Showing posts with label legal settlements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label legal settlements. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2015

Guest Post: the Slow Grind of Justice

  Health Care Renewal presents a guest blog by Steve Lucas, a retired businessman who formerly worked in real estate and construction ...
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The Myth of the Tough Prosecutor as a Distraction from Health Care Corporate Executives' Impunity

The tragic case of the Boston Marathon bombing illustrates how myth making about tough law enforcement obscures the impunity enjoyed by top ...
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Amgen CEOs Prosper Despite (or Because of) Continuing Ethical Questions

This is becoming a familiar narrative on Health Care Renewal : top health care leaders continue to enrich themselves while their organizati...
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UnitedHealth CEO Continues to Prosper While His Company's Behavior Appears to Contradict its Mission Statement

Tis spring, the season in the US for legal settlements, government findings, and proxy statements revealing executive compensation.  There...
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Sunday, May 17, 2015

C R Bard Settles Allegations of Kickbacks to Promote Radiation Treatment for Prostate Cancer

Screening for and aggressive treatment of prostate cancer has become an enormously lucrative business, if not necessarily a life-saving medi...
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Ghosts in the Criminal Machine - How a Drug Company Can Plead Guilty to Federal Fraud, Yet No One is Held Responsible

We have often discussed how leaders of health care organizations have become increasingly unaccountable for their actions.  A recent, slight...
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A Legal Settlement of One Aspect of the Fall of AHERF, Only 15 Years Later

It only took 15 years, but litigation related to one of the most important, but obscure cases of bad health care leadership and governance f...
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Friday, May 15, 2015

Pfizer May No Longer be Able to Delay Paying Its Asbestos Claims of Nearly $1 Billion

Pfizer, which claims to be the "world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company," is one step closer to paying a nearly ...
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55 of Medtronic's Best Hospital Friends, Including HCA, Settle for $34 Million

The case of the over-marketing of Kyphon's kyphoplasty device (look here ) just got more complicated, and now appears to have involved a...
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