Health Care Workers File Suit Against Sutter
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A union representing health care workers who locked out at Sutter Health affiliated hospitals since Thursday, announced today that it is filing a lawsuit against Sutter Health and Modern Industrial Services, the agency Sutter used to hire
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The daughter of a woman who died after choking on her lunch at Youville Hospital &amp; Rehabilitation Center sued the hospital and two medical staff members yesterday, charging that their attempts to save Rosalyn Pearl were "a comedy of errors" that exposed poor emergency training as well as faulty life-saving equipment at the Cambridge facility.
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ST. LOUIS, March 7 -- The federal government sued Walgreen on Wednesday, alleging widespread racial bias against thousands of black workers at the drugstore chain.
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HOUSTON -- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed suit against two distributors of the scarce flu vaccine for allegedly charging exorbitant prices to hospitals in Houston, Dallas and Sherman, in violation of state law.
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A HIV positive woman is being sued by the city of Amarillo, Texas, to force her to seek treatment and stop spreading the disease. The women, identified in court paper by the initials TT, has infected at least
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Hospital workers at 10 Sutter Health affiliates in the Bay Area plan to strike Dec. 1 to protest alleged unfair labor practices, unions representing workers announced Friday.
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A mentally ill paraplegic man filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a hospital that dumped him in a gutter on Los Angeles' "Skid Row" -- a case that highlighted the plight of the city's vast homeless population.
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In a Nov. 23 story about a court action to increase French language usage in a U.S. company, The Associated Press erroneously reported that GE Healthcare filed the suit. Instead, French unions at GE Healthcare went to court to enforce a law that promotes the use of French.
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The AFL-CIO and a Boston-based consumer advocacy group sued AstraZeneca yesterday, accusing the drug manufacturer of deceptively selling doctors and patients
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GREENVILLE -- Medical lawsuits are one of the driving forces behind skyrocketing health care costs. That&#39;s according to Secretary Tommy Thompson, of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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FARGO, N.D. -- State officials filed a lawsuit Friday against the NCAA to challenge its restrictions on the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname. Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said the lawsuit, filed in Northeast Central District Court in Grand Forks, alleges a breach of contract...
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ST. LOUIS -- The federal government yesterday sued Walgreen Co. , alleging widespread racial bias against thousands of black workers throughout the nation's largest drugstore chain.
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A San Francisco law firm filed an antitrust lawsuit Thursday in state court against 15 of the biggest drugmakers, alleging they have conspired to charge &quot;artificially higher prices
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Three Wal-Mart Stores Inc. hourly  workers in California have sued the company for failing to pay  them for all the time they worked.
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(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) A strike by more than 2,500 home health care aides has been averted. The union and the health care provider that employs them have agreed to take their dispute over hourly wages to binding arbitration.
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An old lawsuit claiming Republican Senate candidate Tom Coburn, an obstetrician, sterilized a woman without her consent and accusations that he committed Medicaid fraud have emerged as major issues in his tightly contested race against Democratic Rep. Brad Carson.
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Twelve Guatemalan workers filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday that accuses a U.S. company of exploitation, fraud and forced labor in the United States.