Criminal Law

FDA tells doctors new heparin formula less potent
The Food and Drug Administration is ?alerting doctors that a widely-used blood thinner has been reformulated to improve its safety, though the change could open the door to dosing errors? (AP for FindLaw, 10/1)...

Off Label Uses of Prescription Drugs
Off label use is a drug is prescribed for a purpose, at a dose, or through a route of administration that has not been approved by the FDA. After clinical testing the FDA approves drugs for specific conditions and in specified dosages...

Doctors Not Making the Big Bucks Say Bye-Bye to Medicine
The practice of medicine has just become too tough for many physicians. Too many long days, too many lawsuits, too much paperwork, all for too few zeros after the dollar sign. So with increasing frequency doctors are hanging up the...

Commissioned Salespeople & Overtime, Part 1: How much
This is the first in a series of posts dealing specifically with the issue of commissioned salespeople and unpaid overtime. This is an area most employees, many employers, and even a large percentage of California attorneys do not understand correctly...

Unsealed Lipitor lawsuit alleges defective marketing
--> Unsealed Lipitor lawsuit alleges defective marketing Related Pages: Lipitor Pfizer, Inc. Heart attack Defective Marketing Heart Failure Pfizer is facing a lawsuit from a former employee who alleges the company illegally bolstered sales of its top-selling drug Lipitor with a campaign of education programs that misled doctors...

Whistleblower suit charges Pfizer with off-label marketing of Lipitor
A whistleblower suit charges that Pfizer defrauded the government by illegally promoting off-label uses of Lipitor, according to the Wall Street Journal on December 20, 2007.The lawsuit, filed in 2004 but just unsealed, alleges that Pfizer used misleading educational programs as part of a marketing strategy to encourage physicians to prescribe the cholesterol-lowering medication for patients who did not need it...

Mitchell Report Summary
Report on Steroid Drug Use in Major League Baseball by Senator George Mitchell

Drug Manufacturer Rebates
Caremark Corp. agrees to pay $38.5 million settlement after convincing doctors to switch drug brands.

Qui Tam Whistleblower - Government Fraud - Qui Tam Lawsuit
Qui Tam Whistleblower alleging fraud against the government reported by an individual acting as a government whistleblower.

Police Whistleblower
Officer awarded $980,000 for whistleblower violations and retaliation.

City and Mayor Whistleblower
Two officers awarded part of $8 million whistleblower settlement.

Placebos Instead of Meds
Nearly Half of US Doctors Involved

Health Insurance
alleging health insurance companies have forced patients to pay more than they should when using doctors and hospitals outside their insurer's networks.