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Baby's Death a Homicide; Discharged to Die? Pharma Worker Sues Over Rx Drug Benefits

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

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The death of a baby who was decapitated during delivery has been ruled a homicide by the medical examiner in Clayton County, Georgia. Mother Jessica Ross filed a lawsuit last year alleging the Southern Regional Medical Center attempted to conceal the baby's manner of death. (AP)

A woman who later died of a stroke and forced to leave despite her pleas for more help, according to a new lawsuit. (AP)

Texas anesthesiologist Jeffrey Norman Colvin, MD, has been temporarily after he was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a female patient. (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal)

A Virginia doctor who was sentenced to 40 years in prison for overprescribing opioids had his . (Reuters)

An employee of Johnson & Johnson is suing the company, alleging it for its workers, leading them to overpay millions for specialty generic drugs. (Wall Street Journal)

Former Arizona doctor Stephen Miller, MD, is for allegedly helping a New York woman die by suicide. Medical aid in dying is illegal in New York. (New York Times)

The former president of Illinois-based Cardiac Imaging, a provider of mobile cardiac PET scans, has been accused of paying exorbitant, above-fair-market value fees to doctors who referred patients to his company, .

Nurse Tammy Coyle was arrested for allegedly from Conway Medical Center in South Carolina. (FOX Carolina)

Illinois physician William McMiller, MD, was found guilty of a that involved submitting claims for psychotherapy and medical services that were never provided. (Chicago Sun-Times)

Missouri physician Romel Izquierdo-Malon, MD, pleaded guilty to his role in a $1.4 million Medicare and Medicaid fraud scheme involving genetic testing, .

After an 8-day trial, Texas physician Leovares Mendez, MD, was convicted of in exchange for cash payments, federal prosecutors said.

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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.