Two hospital nurses, alleging a hostile work environment and sexual harassment by an emergency room physician, reported the physician’s behavior to the hospital’s human resources director. The nurses alleged that the physician had engaged in open, unwelcome touching as well as verbal harassment in the emergency room during the prior seven months. After reporting the harassment, both nurses Continue Reading …
Failure to Properly Notify the HMO
November 1, 2010 By
The HMO under a mid-size college’s health plan denied payment of health costs for an employee who was hospitalized following an accident. The HMO claimed that the employee never notified the HMO of her hospitalization, as required under the health plan. In fact, the employee had called her employer’s plan administrator, who advised her that because she’d called Continue Reading …
Breach of Duty
October 6, 2010 By
A class action lawsuit was filed late last year against a health care facility and its board of directors claiming breach of duty in that the company had violated state regulations that stipulates that nursing homes must maintain 3.2 nursing hours per patient, per day. The lawsuit claimed that the nursing homes operated by the Continue Reading …
Identity Theft
October 6, 2010 By
A laptop containing the names, addresses, social security numbers, insurance information and health records of over 74,000 patients was stolen from the employee of a regional hospital. Although there was no evidence that the information had been accessed or misused, the hospital faced regulatory requirements in notifying patients of the breach. A subsequent class action Continue Reading …