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| Tinder Settles Harassment Lawsuit with Co-Founder | | 
| | Dating-app Tinder has settled a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against it by one of its former executives. The co-founder of the dating app filed the lawsuit in June and alleged that she was pressured to resign and faced sexual harassment by two male supervisors. The lawsuit accused the two supervisors of "sexist, racist, and otherwise inappropriate comments, emails and text messages." Tinder settled the lawsuit, which sought damages, including lost wages and stock options, without admitting wrongdoing. One of the supervisors named in the lawsuit has since resigned.
Paresh Dave, LA Times 09/08/2014    | | Read Article: LA Times |
| Ala. Man Re-Files Botched Circumcision Lawsuit | |
| | An Alabama man whose penis was partially amputated during a circumcision surgery has re-filed his lawsuit against the Princeton Baptist Medical Center. The amended lawsuit was filed on Tuesday and contends that on February 10, the plaintiff underwent a surgery for circumcision in which his penis was partially amputated. According to the lawsuit, neither the plaintiff or his wife consented to the partial amputation, nor were given a reason by the doctors for their actions. The doctors and the hospital continue to strongly deny the allegations.
Kent Faulk, AL.com 09/08/2014 | | Read Article: AL.com |
| Lawsuit: Boy's Face Injured by Defective Bat Toy | |
| | A New York father has filed a $4.5 million lawsuit alleging that his 5-year-old son's face was permanently damaged by a plastic baseball bat due to a manufacturing defect. According to the lawsuit, the young boy and his brother where playing at home when a piece of the telescopic bat broke off and struck the boy in the face. Doctors used over 300 stitches on the gash on the boy's face and he will have permanent scars. The lawsuit names the manufacturer, Franklin Sports Inc. as defendant.
Ryan Lavis, Staten Island Advance 09/08/2014 | | Read Article: Staten Island Advance |
| Surgeons Eyed Over Deals With Medical-Device Makers | |
| | Physician-owned distributorships, or PODs, have proliferated in medicine. Distributorships, whether owned by physicians or not, act as intermediaries between medical-device makers and hospitals: In exchange for marketing and stocking devices, the distributors get a cut of each sale. When surgeons own the distributorship, that commission goes into their pockets. And since surgeons often dictate to their hospitals which devices to buy, they can effectively steer business to themselves.Depending on how they are set up, such entities can be legal. But in March, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General issued a special fraud alert about PODs, warning that they "pose dangers to patient safety" by inducing surgeons to do more procedures than necessary and to favor devices they profit from over more "clinically appropriate" ones.
John Carreyrou, Wall Street Journal - $$ Subscription Required 09/09/2014 | | Read Article: Wall Street Journal - $$ Subscription Required($) |
| Feds Reverse Course, Will Release Hospital Mistake Data | |
| | Federal regulators are reversing course and will resume publicly releasing data on hospital mistakes, including when foreign objects are left in patients' bodies or people get the wrong blood type. USA TODAY reported last month that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services quietly stopped publicly reporting a host of life-threatening mistakes, after denying in 2013 that it would do so. CMS says it will make this data on eight "hospital-acquired conditions" (HACs) available on its website.
Jayne O'Donnell , USA Today 09/09/2014 | | Read Article: USA Today |
| Widow Files Malpractice Lawsuit Against Doctors | |
| | The widow of a 78-year-old Florida man who died in March 2011 has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against a Lake Wales doctor, a home health care service and the Lake Wales Medical Center. The elderly man died from complications of pulmonary thromboembolism due to alleged poor care by his health care providers. According to the lawsuit, the man died as a result of the doctors discontinuing his medication after he fractured his hip in January 2011. The lawsuit seeks damages in excess of $15,000.
Cody Dulaney, The Ledger 09/08/2014 | | Read Article: The Ledger |
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