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$425M Heartburn Drug Settlement; 5 Years for Clinic Fire; $2.5M Broken Leg Award

— A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts

by Kristina Fiore, Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting, 51˶

MedpageToday
Legal Break over a blindfolded Lady Justice statue holding scales.

AstraZeneca to settle lawsuits alleging that patients suffered kidney injuries while using its heartburn drugs esomeprazole (Nexium) and omeprazole (Prilosec). (The Hill)

A 22-year-old woman was sentenced to 5 years in prison for setting fire to a Wyoming clinic that was under construction but planned to offer gender-affirming care and abortions, .

Pennsylvania physician Vladimir Iakomi, MD, was charged with after allegedly touching a patient inappropriately during an office visit. (Penn Live)

New York emergency nurse Erik Hjemdahl-Monsen was with possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material. (The Buffalo News)

Ohio nurse Brian Trissel has been accused of his girlfriend's preteen daughter. (Columbus Dispatch)

A couple accused by patients of giving false diagnoses of Alzheimer's disease . Sherry-Ann Jenkins, PhD, was sentenced to almost 6 years in prison and her husband Oliver Jenkins, MD, got 41 months. (Columbus Dispatch)

Heather Pressdee, the Pennsylvania nurse charged with killing two nursing home patients with insulin, now faces a wrongful death lawsuit from a . (Trib Live)

A jury to a Connecticut man who said he was disabled for life after developing compartment syndrome following surgery for his broken leg. (CT Post)

The Center for Science in the Public Interest that it has sued EpicGenetics, charging that it has made false and misleading claims about its test for fibromyalgia.

A New Jersey appeals court has against Johnson & Johnson that was awarded to four plaintiffs who claimed they developed cancer from asbestos in the company's talc powder products. (Reuters)

Cigna will pay over $172 million to resolve claims that it submitted incorrect data on its Medicare Advantage patients to CMS in order to receive higher payments, .

Charges against California physician Anthony Hao Dinh, DO, have been expanded, increasing the total amount of fraudulent claims to more than a quarter-billion dollars, and adding money laundering charges, .

South Carolina doctor Moustafa Moustafa, MD, and his medical practice South Carolina Hypertension Center, will pay over $585,000 to settle claims that they received illegal kickbacks in return for referring patients for lab testing, .

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    Kristina Fiore leads MedPage’s enterprise & investigative reporting team. She’s been a medical journalist for more than a decade and her work has been recognized by Barlett & Steele, AHCJ, SABEW, and others. Send story tips to k.fiore@medpagetoday.com.