Posted on May 24, 2013
Parkland Memorial Hospital of Dallas, Texas has agreed to pay a $1.4 million settlement to resolve allegations that they knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, the Dallas Morning News reported recently. Parkland has also agreed to enter into a...
Posted on May 24, 2013
Effective May 24, 2013, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has designated clomiphene citrate a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer. Companies offering products for sale in California that expose consumers to clomiphene citrate...
Posted on May 21, 2013
Texas-based U.S. Renal Care has agreed to pay $7.3 million to resolve allegations that their subsidiary, Dialysis Corporation of America (DCA), violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting false claims to the Medicare program for more medication than was actually administered to dialysis...
Posted on May 21, 2013
In a study released this month by the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Public Health, 32 lip products used by young Asian women in Oakland, California were tested in order to assess the potential health risks associated with ingesting, or swallowing, small amounts of the...
Posted on May 20, 2013
Peter Englander, Whitney Leeman, and Laurence Vinocur--three clients of The Chanler Group--served ten 60-Day Notices of Proposition 65 Violation last Friday, May 17. The notices were served to companies offering products such as furniture and hand tools for sale in California containing...
Posted on May 17, 2013
In the largest drug safety settlement of its kind to date, generic drug manufacturer Ranbaxy USA Inc. pleaded guilty to felony charges relating to the manufacture and distribution of adulterated drugs, as well as violation of the False Claims Act, the U.S. Department of Justice announced this week...
Posted on May 17, 2013
Excerpted from full article at Prop 65 Clearinghouse:
A Sacramento Superior Court judge has granted the Attorney General's request to dismiss a complaint by three clients of The Chanler Group arguing that the AG's regulation requiring Proposition 65 private plaintiffs to serve the AG with a...
Posted on May 17, 2013
A San Francisco Superior Court judge recently ruled that dietary supplements are “food,” which may exempt the manufacturers from having to provide health hazard warnings for their products that contain chemicals known to cause cancer and reproductive harm under Proposition 65.
In...
Posted on May 16, 2013
New Jersey-based C.R. Bard has agreed to pay the U.S. government $48.26 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly caused false claims to be submitted to Medicare for brachytherapy seeds used to treat prostate cancer, the U.S. Department of Justice announced this week.
The United States...
Posted on May 16, 2013
California Attorney General Kamala Harris recently filed a lawsuit against Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Target, and other food retailers, alleging that they were selling lead-tainted ginger and plum candies and other food products without the health hazard warning required by California law,...
