Medtronic Must Pay Surgeon $400 Mln Punitive Damages
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Jurors who ordered Medtronic Inc. to pay $159 million last month for violating contracts covering spinal-implant products today awarded an additional $400 million in punitive damages to their inventor, a Los Angeles surgeon.
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A federal judge said that a $51 million damage award over MerckÂs Vioxx painkiller was Âgrossly excessive.Â
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NEWARK, New Jersey  - Four medical device implant makers will pay about $311 million and agree to federal monitoring and other reforms to settle a government probe into improper consulting contracts with surgeons, federal prosecutors said on Thursday.
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The nation's third-largest operator of kidney-dialysis clinics has agreed to pay the government &#36;350 million to settle allegations it defrauded Medicare.
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Software giant contesting order to pay $521 million in patent infringement verdict.
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A Palm Beach County judge has ruled that approximately 4,500 Florida residents are entitled to $1.6 million in damages from one of the nation&#39;s largest apartment complex owners, which
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Senator Charles Grassley is raising questions about payments made by medical devices maker Medtronic Inc to spine surgeons, the New York Times reported on its Website on Thursday.
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Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N has sued   Boston Scientific Corp.BSX.N and Abbott Laboratories Inc.   ABT.N, seeking at least $5.5 billion in damages related to   J&J's failed bid for medical device maker Guidant Corp.
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Software giant contesting order to pay &#36;521 million in patent infringement verdict.
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The ruling could cost insurers billions of dollars more than the $41 billion they have already paid to storm victims.
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NEWARK, New Jersey  - Federal prosecutors in New Jersey said on Thursday they have reached a $311 million settlement with companies in the medical device implant industry.
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Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle is admitting that a mistake during an operation cost an Everett woman her life. Doctor Robert Caplan, physician leader for patient safety at Virginia Mason, tells KING
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Inova Health System, one of Virginia&#39;s largest nonprofit hospital chains, is being sued in federal court for allegedly overcharging uninsured patients and then using &quot;aggressive and humiliating&quot; techniques to collect.
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A division of Primus Telecommunications Group Inc. agreed yesterday to pay $400,000 to the federal government to settle allegations that the McLean phone provider made telemarketing calls in violation of the national do-not-call registry.
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A doctor takes a risk and goes against a patient's wishes in order to save his life.
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A jury in federal court in Tennessee  has ordered Medtronic Inc. to pay at least $109 million to an  inventor in a dispute over rights to spinal fusion technology.
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A federal jury awarded $400 million in punitive damages Wednesday to a doctor who accused a medical technology company of infringing on his patents for a surgical device to treat spinal injuries.