class action lawsuit Archives - MedCity News https://medcitynews.com/tag/class-action-lawsuit/ Healthcare technology news, life science current events Fri, 15 Sep 2023 22:28:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.1 https://medcitynews.com/uploads/2021/03/cropped-mblue-32x32.png class action lawsuit Archives - MedCity News https://medcitynews.com/tag/class-action-lawsuit/ 32 32 40682243 Most Hospitals Are Still Violating HIPAA By Using Web Tracking Tools, Despite Federal Warnings https://medcitynews.com/2023/09/social-media-healthcare-hipaa/ https://medcitynews.com/2023/09/social-media-healthcare-hipaa/#respond Fri, 15 Sep 2023 18:13:35 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=648708

The federal government has warned hospitals that using third-party analytics tools on their websites could violate HIPAA, and more than 20 hospitals are facing class-action lawsuits over the use of these tools. But a recent analysis found that hospitals are doing a poor job of fixing their websites and preventing patient data collection.

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Floridians Sue Florida Over Medicaid Redeterminations Process https://medcitynews.com/2023/08/medicaid-redeterminations-lawsuit-florida/ https://medcitynews.com/2023/08/medicaid-redeterminations-lawsuit-florida/#respond Wed, 23 Aug 2023 21:04:48 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=646236

Two Florida families allege that tens of thousands of Floridians are being terminated from Medicaid coverage without sufficient information as to why. This comes as the U.S. continues the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous enrollment requirement, which stopped states from disenrolling Medicaid enrollees during the Covid-19 public health emergency.

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Report: Class-action Securities Lawsuits Decline but Risks Remain for Life-sciences Companies https://medcitynews.com/2023/03/report-class-action-securities-lawsuits-decline-but-risks-remain-for-life-sciences-companies/ https://medcitynews.com/2023/03/report-class-action-securities-lawsuits-decline-but-risks-remain-for-life-sciences-companies/#respond Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:38:46 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=625981

Disgruntled investors lodged fewer securities claims against life-science companies last year. But when they did sue, investors raised familiar issues, often tied to bad news around clinical research and regulatory approvals, according to a law firm report

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How Much of a Risk Is a Potential Class-action Lawsuit against CommonSpirit? https://medcitynews.com/2023/01/commonspirit-sued-over-data-breach-that-exposed-600000-patients-information/ https://medcitynews.com/2023/01/commonspirit-sued-over-data-breach-that-exposed-600000-patients-information/#respond Fri, 06 Jan 2023 19:14:08 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=619507

CommonSpirit Health is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit over a ransomware attack it suffered last fall that exposed 623,774 patients’ personal data. However, hospitals’ data breach lawsuits usually never make it court, a legal expert said.

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Blue Cross settles class action suit naming ‘pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli for $28M https://medcitynews.com/2022/02/blue-cross-settles-class-action-suit-naming-pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-for-28m/ https://medcitynews.com/2022/02/blue-cross-settles-class-action-suit-naming-pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-for-28m/#respond Wed, 02 Feb 2022 18:03:32 +0000 https://medcitynews.com/?p=569029 insurance, drug insurance

Shkreli controversially raised the price of the drug Daraprim, which is used to treat a potentially fatal parasitic infection, by 4,000%, from $13.50 to $750 per pill in 2015. In January, a federal judge banned him from the pharmaceutical industry for life.

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