Medical crimes cover a wide range of illegal activities within the healthcare industry, including fraud, theft, abuse, neglect, malpractice, and drug-related offenses.
The lawyer for an Indiana doctor who has found herself at the center of a political firestorm after revealing the story of a 10-year-old girl who traveled from Ohio for an abortion says her client provided proper treatment. More
July 14, 2022
The prosecutors claimed that the woman acted on the basis of an excessive need for recognition. More
May 25, 2022
Surgical assistant Mir Asadullah Naqvi has been arrested in Montgomery County, Maryland for allegedly sexually assaulting a patient. More
May 19, 2022
Former Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught, whose medication error killed a patient, was sentenced to three years of probation. More
May 13, 2022
Hundreds of health care workers gathered outside a Nashville courthouse to protest the sentencing of former Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught, who faces the possibility of years in prison for mistakenly causing the death of a patient. More
May 13, 2022
A former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse convicted of a crime for a mistake on the job is about to be sentenced — and much of the country will be watching. More
May 13, 2022
A woman accused of committing medical murder while working as a respiratory therapist nearly 20 years ago plans to turn herself in, according to her attorney. More
May 12, 2022
Former respiratory therapist Jennifer Anne Hall, who worked at a northern Missouri hospital where nine people died under suspicious circumstances 20 years ago, has been charged in one of the deaths. More
May 10, 2022
A jury on Wednesday acquitted an Ohio doctor of murder charges in multiple hospital patient deaths following a weekslong trial. More
April 20, 2022
A judge told jurors in the trial of an Ohio doctor charged in the deaths of 14 patients to keep working after they said they were deadlocked. More
April 18, 2022
Ohio State University will pay $2 million to settle more lawsuits brought by men who said they were sexually abused decades ago by now-deceased team doctor Richard Strauss, increasing the number of survivors who've reached settlement agreements to nearly 290. More
April 15, 2022
Closing arguments in the trial of Ohio doctor, Dr. William Husel, charged in multiple hospital deaths began with the prosecution. More
April 11, 2022
Lawyers representing Dr. William Husel wrapped up their case Thursday one day after calling only a single witness. More
April 1, 2022
Former nurse RaDonda Vaught was convicted of two counts in the death of a patient who was accidentally given the wrong medication. More
March 31, 2022
Dr. William Husel is accused of ordering excessive painkillers for 14 patients in the Columbus-area Mount Carmel Health System. More
March 30, 2022
A former Tennessee nurse is guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a patient who was accidentally given the wrong medication, a jury found Friday. More
March 25, 2022
The fate of a former Tennessee nurse whose patient died after she was accidentally injected with a paralyzing drug is now in the hands of a jury. More
March 24, 2022
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Scripps News Nashville) — The second day of testimony is underway for RaDonda Vaught, a former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse on trial for the death of a patient in her care. She is accused of killing Charlene Murphey, who received the wrong medication and became unable to breathe in 2017. Murphy […] More
March 23, 2022
A former doctor charged with killing his wife in their Syracuse-area home was found guilty Thursday after his second trial. More
March 18, 2022
Dr. William Husel, accused in multiple hospital deaths, is on trial after turning down a possible last-minute plea deal. More
March 14, 2022
Authorities described the clinics as “pill mills” and said they were frequented by people suffering from addictions and drug dealers seeking high-dosage prescription drugs. More
March 10, 2022
A former nursing assistant is accused of sexually assaulting multiple elderly residents at an assisted living facility in Ohio. More
March 7, 2022
William Husel is accused of ordering excessive painkillers for patients in the Columbus-area Mount Carmel Health System. More
February 18, 2022
A major Florida player in a medical device scheme was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, a significant sentence in the world of health care fraud in Florida. During the federal hearing held over Zoom on Wednesday morning, Patsy Joseph Truglia, 54, of Broward County offered remorse, telling the federal judge he was "truly and deeply sorry and selfish" when he committed his crimes. More
February 2, 2022
AKRON, Ohio (Scripps News Cleveland) — A family learned from a DNA test their daughter was fathered by a stranger after an apparent mix-up of sperm samples at Summa’s Akron City Hospital over 30 years ago, according to a law firm representing the family in a lawsuit. In 1991, Jeanine and Mike Harvey sought fertility […] More
February 2, 2022
Prison officials want to use a never-before-tried combination of three or four drugs to execute Zane Michael Floyd by lethal injection. More
January 27, 2022
The defendant entered Germany in 2015, and German authorities permitted him to practice medicine after recertifying his Syrian medical credentials. More
January 19, 2022
Two California couples gave birth to each others' babies after a mix-up at a fertility clinic and spent months raising children that weren't theirs before swapping the infants. More
November 8, 2021
Neurologist Dr. Ricardo Cruciani pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges alleging he was a serial sexual abuser of women who had gone to him for help with debilitating chronic pain. More
October 21, 2021
Dr. Ricardo Cruciani -- neurologist already facing charges he raped patients in New York and New Jersey -- arrested on new federal charges alleging he was a serial sexual abuser of women. More
October 20, 2021
