Medical Misconduct Tracker

A proposed class action by employee “P.J.P.” against WVU Hospitals alleges hidden cameras in staff bathrooms, potentially exposing institutional...

A proposed class-action lawsuit accuses West Virginia University Hospitals and United Health System of failing to protect staff from alleged covert...

A single alleged launderer moved massive fraud proceeds through basic banking channels in just five months.

• ND Medical Solutions submitted $1.3...

Psychiatry sees far fewer suits than most specialties, with just 0.5% of psychiatrists sued yearly, yet medication monitoring failures and...

AI scribes promise reduced burnout but introduce hard-to-detect documentation errors that leave clinicians liable for malpractice.

• Quality...

A San Diego jury awarded $105 million to a substance abuse counselor fired after reporting sexual harassment, a hidden bathroom camera, and...

Heuser Health agreed to pay $2.6 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations of overbilling Medicare and TRICARE for high-cost skin substitutes in...

Maryland alleges Optum's defective system caused improper Medicaid denials, overpayments, and fraud losses.

• Costly failures: Crashed immediately,...

Iowa Board of Nursing cases show varied misconduct met with warnings and training rather than strict penalties.

• Patient care failure: Danette Weiler...

A judge rejected a Wilbraham nursing home's bid to narrow or reclassify a negligence suit as medical malpractice after resident Thomas Frazier, 83,...

California's Medical Board stresses that criminal convictions do not automatically dictate license outcomes; each case receives individual...

Federal enforcement is holding Walmart accountable with a $50 million settlement for allegedly filling thousands of invalid opioid prescriptions, even...

Illinois's new law requires licensed professionals and hospitals to report accusations of inappropriate sexual conduct or unjustified intimate conduct...

Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown sued UnitedHealth and Optum for up to $380 million, alleging a defective claims system crashed the state's...

A Kanawha County teacher's estate alleges unrecognized pelvic hemorrhage after infected hip implant removal led to her death at CAMC Memorial...

The Villages Health System agreed to a $541.5 million settlement to resolve self-disclosed False Claims Act allegations involving submission of false...

Nurse practitioner Joan Rubinger treated elite athletes with aggressive opioid prescriptions but the DEA revoked her registration after she allegedly...

Abby Lee Miller has apologized and asked the court to dismiss her $1.4 million malpractice lawsuit against Dr. Hooman Melamed, Dr. Paul Dwan, and...

A second lawsuit filed by former Woodford County EMS employee David Sheeks claims retaliation and a hostile environment after he reported a...

A new malpractice suit alleges triage and nursing failures at DCH Northport left a 17-week pregnant patient waiting hours despite an emergent ESI...