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Nurse Who Filmed Assaults Gets 20 Years; Doc Not Guilty of Her Sister's Murder

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

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Former Colorado ICU nurse Christopher Lambros will spend after filming himself sexually assaulting unconscious patients. Lambros had referred to his videos as his "Dexter collection." (Local12)

A Florida doctor has been found in her sister's death. Charee Howard, DO, suffered from schizophrenia and was in a psychotic state when she choked and killed her older sister last spring, attorneys and court officials agreed. (Tampa Bay Times)

The UI Physicians group to settle two lawsuits alleging physician negligence. A plastic surgeon was accused of botching a breast reconstruction, and an otolaryngologist was accused of making "life-changing errors" while performing brain surgery without a neurosurgeon. (The Gazette)

A family alleges that doctors at Mission Hospital in North Carolina didn't adequately care for a woman after spine surgery, . (Asheville Citizen-Times)

Boston doctor Merle Berger, MD, has been accused by a former patient of with his own sperm more than 40 years ago. (CBS News Boston)

The death of a Knoxville, Tennessee nurse who died while trying to break up a fight is . (10News)

A California jury awarded to a former Kaiser Permanente nurse who said she experienced retaliation for raising concerns about patient safety and quality of care. (KNX News)

Utah-based Dolor Technologies will pay to settle charges around its SphenoCath device for migraines, . They alleged that the company pushed healthcare providers to submit false claims to Medicare for procedures that the device wasn't FDA-approved to treat.

Two nurses in New Hampshire have been accused of meant for patients. (WMUR9)

Virginia doctor Kirsten Ball, MD, was convicted for , and now faces the possibility of decades in prison. (Washington Post)

Akram Boutros, MD, the former CEO of Cleveland-based MetroHealth, has against his former employer, citing health issues. (Signal Cleveland)

A former VCU Medical Center employee who shot and killed his coworker in a hospital stairwell has been . (NBC12)

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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.