Jury Awards Doc $21M; Doc Accused of Using Job Recruitment for Rape; Nurse Wins $2M

Former Seattle Children’s physician Benjamin Danielson, MD, won $21 million in a racial discrimination case he filed last year. (Seattle Times)

California physician Babak Hajhosseini, MD, who was arrested and accused of rape last month, allegedly used job recruiting sites to target women and drug and sexually assault them, according to police. He reportedly offered high-paying hourly wages and then invited employees to work overtime hours at his home. (KTLA)

A Florida nurse was awarded $2.3 million in a car crash case after rejecting a $50,000 settlement from her auto insurance. (Nurse.org)

The next court hearing in the case of Michael Joyner, MD, against the Mayo Clinic will happen in-person, rather than remotely, in April. (KTTC)

New Jersey physician Humberto Perez, MD, was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a patient. (NJ.com)

California physician Mohammad Rasekhi, MD, along with his businesses and an executive, will pay $15 million to settle allegations that they paid illegal kickbacks and referred patients to their own lab facility, according to federal prosecutors.

Nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, have filed another complaint alleging that patient care issues have led to two preventable deaths. (Telegram & Gazette)

Iowa’s medical board has reinstated the license of Robert Cunard, MD, who had been sanctioned for alleged “gross malpractice” related to patient deaths caused by drug overdoses. (Iowa Capital Dispatch)

Novartis will have to face a whistleblower lawsuit alleging it paid illegal kickbacks to doctors to get them to promote its multiple sclerosis drug fingolimod (Gilenya). (Reuters)

A Montana nurse has been accused of sexually assaulting a patient in the ICU. (Montana Free Press)

Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.