Top executives at the Arizona-based drug company Insys Therapeutics bribed doctors into prescribing an addictive opioid spray containing fentanyl, deceiving insurers into paying for it, federal prosecutors in Boston claimed Thursday. Insys founder and majority owner...
BOSTON — Drug company executives weren’t satisfied with sales for their powerful painkiller, so they devised a plan, prosecutors say: Offer cash to doctors in exchange for prescriptions. Soon, the highly addictive fentanyl spray was flourishing, and executives were...
CONCORD — A federal jury on Tuesday found a former physician’s assistant “guilty of participating in a scheme in which he received kickbacks in exchange for prescribing a powerful fentanyl spray to patients in violation of federal law,” announced U.S. Attorney Scott...
CONCORD, N.H. — A trial is underway for a New Hampshire physician assistant accused of writing prescriptions in exchange for kickbacks. The case revolves around the fentanyl spray SUBSYS, a powerful pain medication. Prosecutors said the 43-year-old Christopher...
MANCHESTER — A medical malpractice trial that started Monday in Hillsborough County Superior Court hinges on whether an ambulance should have turned on its lights and sirens. If Dr. Jennifer T. Jones, the chief of internal medicine at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical...
‘It’s Never Just a Legal Issue—It’s a Human Issue’ To October Pro Bono Volunteer Morgan Gehrls, It’s Important to Also Lend a Sympathetic Ear Carly Owens, ’20 October 23, 2018 Editor’s note: The Pro Bono Board, a student group committed to expanding pro bono knowledge...
PORTSMOUTH — The near-drowning of Gregorio “Junior” Ortega, in Water Country’s wave pool two years ago, has been cited in a civil suit seeking compensation to Ortega for what are described as “severe and permanent personal injuries” he claims are a result of the water...
Attorney Michael Rainboth was recently selected as a New England Super Lawyer in the category of plaintiff’s medical malpractice. Attorney Rainboth is one of the only three lawyers located in New Hampshire who are current medical malpractice Super Lawyers. For more...
BE A SAFE DRIVER, BE A FOCUSED DRIVER What does this mean? No use of hand-held electronic devices capable of providing voice or data communication while driving or temporarily halted in traffic for a stop sign or traffic signal or other momentary delays This includes...
The attorney in charge of a compensation fund for General Motors Co. has connected 19 deaths to a faulty ignition switch, surpassing the 13 fatalities the company acknowledged in the past. Ken Feinberg, the attorney overseeing the independent fund, has received 125...