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West Virginia Lawmakers Urged to Hold Mine Operators Accountable
Feb 9 2012 // West Virginia must hold coal operators accountable for any negligence or misconduct to prevent another Upper Big Branch, the worst U.S. coal mine disaster in four decades, the state’s special investigator of that...
Louisiana AG Recovers $25.2M from Drug Companies Charged with Fraud
Feb 8 2012 // Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced that his office has recovered $25.2 million from five pharmaceutical companies that he sued alleging unlawful inflation of drug costs paid by Louisiana taxpayers through...
Accident Fund Holdings Launches Narcotics Program for Injured Workers
Feb 6 2012 // Accident Fund Holdings has created a comprehensive narcotics program to help reduce the health risk of drugs on injured workers and provide a mechanism for them to get back to work sooner. The primary components of the...
Oklahoma Bill Would Combat Prescription Drug Overdose
Feb 6 2012 // Under legislation by state Rep. Pat Ownbey, physicians could not prescribe a controlled substance without first using the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics Prescription Monitoring Program to see what has already been prescribed...
Agents Raid 2 Florida CVS Stores in Prescription Drug Abuse Probe
Feb 6 2012 // Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration raided two CVS pharmacies in Florida as part of an effort to curb the abuse of prescription painkillers and other potentially addictive substances. The action on...
Workers’ Comp Rate Hike Irks Florida Businesses
Feb 6 2012 // Florida small businesses seeing their second workers’ compensation rate increase in as many years are calling on the state to reduce the increase because they fear it will harm the economy. A small business group is...
Pfizer Recalls 1M Birth Control Packs After Mixup
Feb 2 2012 // Pfizer Inc. is recalling 1 million packets of birth control pills because of a packaging error that could leave women with an inadequate dose of the hormone-based drugs and raise the risk that they will get pregnant...
Idaho Gets $625K in Prescription Drug Case
Feb 1 2012 // Idaho is getting $625,000 in the settlement of a lawsuit with a prescription drug maker accused of selling products at false or inflated prices. Attorney General Lawrence Wasden announced the resolution Monday with Mylan...
Del. Regulator Offers Advice on Healthcare Options for Early Retirees
Jan 24 2012 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart expressed concern for soon-to-retire Baby Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964), many of whom will face the uncertain prospect of finding alternative health...
Should Insurers Cover Experimental Treatments?
Jan 24 2012 // When your health insurance provider denies an experimental treatment or a high-cost drug, how much are you willing to pay for the care you believe you need? Barby Ingle, a former cheerleading and dance coach at Washington...
Florida Workers’ Comp Rate Hike Irks Businesses
Jan 23 2012 // Florida small businesses seeing their second workers’ compensation rate increase in as many years are calling on the state to reduce the increase because they fear it will harm the economy. A small business group is...
Boston Judge Orders 14 Drug Cos. to Settle Breast Cancer Case
Jan 21 2012 // A federal judge in Boston has ordered 14 drug companies to negotiate settlements for 53 women who claim their breast cancer was caused by an anti-miscarriage drug their mothers took decades ago. Lawyers for the women said...
Johnson & Johnson Settles Texas Lawsuit for $158M
Jan 20 2012 // A lawsuit in which Texas accused Johnson & Johnson of plundering the state Medicaid program by overstating the safety of an expensive anti-psychotic drug and improperly influencing officials and doctors to push the...
Florida Workers’ Compensation Rate Hike Irks Businesses
Jan 16 2012 // Florida small businesses seeing their second workers’ compensation rate increase in as many years are calling on the state to reduce the increase because they fear it will harm the economy. A small business group is...
Boston Lawsuit Claims DES-Breast Cancer Link
Jan 10 2012 // Arline MacCormack first heard about DES from her mother when she was 17. Three decades later, MacCormack believes that the drug her mother took to prevent miscarriages caused her to develop breast cancer at age...
Indiana Drug Tests
Jan 9 2012 // Indiana officials say a drug testing program that started in July for people seeking job training has led to about 2 percent of applicants failing. The state Department of Workforce Development says 13 people, or 1...
Indiana: 2% Fail Job Training Drug Tests
Dec 30 2011 // Indiana officials say a drug testing program that started in July for people seeking job training has led to about 2 percent of applicants failing. The state Department of Workforce Development says 13 people, or 1...
Drug Tampering Cases Show Gaps in Nurse Regulation in Kansas
Dec 14 2011 // A nurse with a prior felony conviction for forging prescriptions dilutes morphine solutions for five Halstead, Kan., nursing home patients. Another nurse convicted of stealing drugs from patients at an Emporia home gets...
Philadelphia Jury Awards Three Women $72M Over Prempro Therapy Drug
Dec 8 2011 // A Philadelphia jury has awarded three women $72.6 million in compensatory damages over their use of the hormone therapy drug Prempro and more could be coming when punitive damages are determined. The Philadelphia Inquirer...
Drug Enforcer Anderson Named Florida’s Insurance Fraud Investigator
Dec 6 2011 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater has named Daniel Anderson to serve as the state’s lead insurance fraud investigator. Anderson will take over as the director of the state’s Division of Insurance...
