George Studnicka filed suit against Dr. A. Daniel Pinheiro, Dr. Kerry D. Olsen, and the Mayo Clinic, alleging a cause of action for common-law battery. Studnicka claimed that the two physicians performed surgery on him without his informed, written consent, and that this action constituted battery u...   MORE>>

Defendant-Appellant Douglas Dvorak was convicted of multiple counts of mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering. The indictment alleged that Dvorak, a chiropractor, submitted false Medicaid claims in the names of children for whom he did not provide treatment. He would then deposi...   MORE>>

Saint Francis Medical Center brought this class action suit against C.R. Bard, Inc., a supplier of medical equipment, including Foley and intermittent catheters. According to Saint Francis, Bard’s contracts with Group Purchasing Organizations violate sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, section 3 ...   MORE>>

Appellee Alvin Howard brought this negligence action against Missouri Bone and Joint Center, Inc. (“MBJC”), alleging that MBJC’s negligence caused the back injury Howard sustained in 2001. The jury returned a verdict for Howard, after which MBJC filed a motion for judgment as a matter of law o...   MORE>>

Dr. Antoine Khoury appeals the district court’s dismissal of his tort lawsuit against Philips Medical Systems (Philips). Dr. Khoury argues the district court abused its discretion in excluding the testimony of his expert witness, Dr. Robert Andres, as unqualified and unreliable under Fed. R. Evid....   MORE>>

Rozanna and Charles Csiszer sued the hospital and obstetrician that provided care to Rozanna during the birth of their daughter, Allison Csiszer. The complaint alleged that negligent care during the delivery was the proximate cause of Allison’s cerebral palsy. The jury returned a verdict for the d...   MORE>>

Michael McGowan had an upper molar extracted in January 2007 while he was imprisoned at Illinois’s Menard Correctional Center, but the extraction site did not heal and became infected. He was still suffering from complications in November 2007, when a specialist performed the second of two surgeri...   MORE>>

Attorneys J. Russell Hixson and Terrence Brown filed this qui tam action on behalf of the United States against Health Management Services (HMS) and ACS State Healthcare, two companies that contracted to perform work for Iowa's Medicaid program, and against two employees of the Iowa Department of He...   MORE>>

Karen Robinson and her husband (suing for loss of consortium) brought a products liability suit against McNeil Consumer Healthcare in an Illinois state court. The case was removed to a federal district court in Illinois under the diversity jurisdiction. McNeil’s parent, Johnson & Johnson, was a de...   MORE>>

Lynn Marie Larson contends that she is disabled by anxiety, depression, and ankle pain. She applied for Supplemental Security Income (“SSI”), but an Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) concluded that her impairments, although severe, are not disabling. The district court upheld the agency’s d...   MORE>>