A nurse filed a lawsuit against her former employer, PeaceHealth, alleging the Vancouver, Wash.-based system failed to provide 30-minute meal breaks because of understaffing, The Columbian reported March 5. 

A Florida man and woman were each sentenced to 27 months in prison for their roles in a scheme that submitted $125 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare and Tricare.

A recent report from Birmingham, Ala.-based Medical Properties Trust, the largest hospital landlord in the U.S., touched on the possibility of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission activity and government investigations regarding some of MPT's assets and tenants.

A nurse practitioner is accused of writing fake prescriptions for thousands of oxycodone pills while unemployed, TribLive reported March. 4.

Six women who received ultrasounds between 2020 and 2022 at Sutter Health's Memorial Hospital in Los Banos, Calif., allege an ultrasound technician sexually assaulted them. Despite complaints and two police investigations, the technician remained employed, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced March 4 that the state has been granted a $5 million prejudgment remedy in its lawsuit against the owners of Stone Academy, after its abrupt closure without warning in February 2023.

As Dallas-based Steward Health Care's financial troubles rage on at its hospitals in states like Massachusetts and Utah, the health system is now facing lawsuits pertaining to some of its Florida hospitals, Florida Today reported March 3.

Police said they have arrested a man following the assault of six workers at New York City-based Richmond University Medical Center.

A federal hearing is being held in Boston on April 3 to look into for-profit companies' roles in the U.S. healthcare system amid Dallas-based Steward Health Care's ongoing financial troubles in states like Massachusetts. 

Dozens of TikTok accounts are using social media photos from real physicians, nurses and dental clinicians to promote a range of supplements and unchecked health claims — with few people policing them, Forbes reported March 4.

A federal judge on March 1 dismissed a trademark lawsuit brought by New York City-based NYU Langone Health System and NYU Langone Hospitals against New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health regarding the use of the color purple and other elements in Northwell's marketing and advertisements, according to court documents shared with Becker's. 

The family of a man who died at Mercy Hospital Springfield (Mo.) filed a lawsuit against the hospital Feb. 29, claiming delayed care and negligence contributed to his death, NBC affiliate KYTV reported. 

From a Wisconsin judge denying a temporary injunction to delay the close of two Hospital Sisters Health System-owned hospitals to a Waterbury Hospital alleging she was fired for her age, here are 10 lawsuits, settlements and legal developments Becker's has reported since Feb. 22: 

The former CEO and president of a compounding pharmacy in Florida was sentenced to six months in prison for lying to federal agents during a healthcare fraud scheme investigation. 

On Feb. 29, Ohio and CVS settled 27 pending cases that alleged the pharmacy chain understaffed its stores, leading to prescription delays and dispensing errors. 

A physician pleaded guilty to accepting kickbacks in a fraudulent telemarketing and medical supply scheme, the Justice Department said Feb. 28. 

Physicians in Alabama could be shielded from criminal or civil liability for performing in vitro fertilization procedures after the state's legislature passed a bill Feb. 29, The Washington Post reported.

A Michigan surgeon was arrested Feb. 27 and charged with one count of a false report or threat of terrorism, a felony punishable by up to 20 years. The charge is related to alleged threats to staff at Ascension St. Mary's Hospital. 

The owners of St. Louis-based Northview Village nursing home, which closed without warning in December, have been fined $56,310, by CMS the St. Louis Dispatch reported Feb. 29.

Albany, N.Y.-based St. Peter's Health Partners and its Troy, N.Y.-based Samaritan Hospital filed a lawsuit on Feb. 28 against New York state Attorney General Letitia James's office seeking relief from the court regarding the office's investigation into the hospital's planned closure of its Burdett Birth Center.