Nurse Accused of Poisoning Pets; Well being Exec Shoplifted From Goal? Docs Sue Hacker

— A weekly roundup of healthcare’s encounters with the courts

by
Kristina Fiore, Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting, MedPage At present
January 11, 2024

A Florida nurse is accused of fatally poisoning her neighbor’s two pet cats and pregnant chihuahua, killing the canine’s eight puppies within the womb. Tamesha Knighten allegedly laced hen with phorate, a pesticide, to kill the animals. (FOX 13)

Connor Bowman, MD, the previous Mayo Clinic resident accused of fatally poisoning his spouse, is now dealing with first-degree murder charges. (CNN)

A healthcare government in New Mexico was accused of shoplifting from Target regardless of making almost $300,000 a yr. (KOB 4)

Juror No. 1 within the “Take Care of Maya” trial did not commit misconduct, a Florida decide dominated, denying a movement from Johns Hopkins attorneys for a brand new trial based mostly on juror misconduct. (FOX 13)

Former touring nurse Timothy Jackson was sentenced to 7 years in prison for raping a affected person at a Methodist Hospital in Gary, Indiana. (Instances of Northwest Indiana)

A medical assistant in south Florida has been accused of secretly recording victims while they urinated at Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital. (WPLG)

New York anesthesiologist Paul Giacopelli, MD, was arrested for allegedly drugging and sexually abusing a girl on a number of events. (Journal Information)

Two hospitals and an orthopedic group in New York filed a lawsuit against a ransomware group in hopes of issuing a subpoena to get a cloud storage agency to give up information the ransomware group allegedly stole from the organizations in an August information breach. (Becker’s Well being IT)

North Carolina’s Novant Well being has agreed to pay $6.6 million to settle a lawsuit introduced by sufferers over its use of Meta Pixel to trace and gather affected person information. (WRAL Information)

Andrew Bhatnager, PhD, sued the attorney who defended him in a fertility lawsuit involving a malfunction that resulted within the lack of 4,000 embryos and eggs, claiming that the legal professional charged him extreme charges and curiosity on greater than $175,000 in unpaid authorized payments. (Cleveland.com)

A house healthcare firm pays virtually $10 million to resolve claims that it falsely billed for in-home nursing and private care when its workers weren’t really current in sufferers’ properties, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.