Doctor gets nearly 17 years in prison for vast opioid scheme
Michigan doctor sentenced to prison and ordered to pay $30M in scheme to bill insurers for unnecessary injections and opioid prescriptions. More
January 30, 2023
Medical crimes cover a wide range of illegal activities within the healthcare industry, including fraud, theft, abuse, neglect, malpractice, and drug-related offenses.
Michigan doctor sentenced to prison and ordered to pay $30M in scheme to bill insurers for unnecessary injections and opioid prescriptions. More
January 30, 2023
Kansas prisoner John Keith Calvin, who alleged in a lawsuit that he was not being treated properly for cancer, has died. More
January 26, 2023
Massachusetts' highest court said allowing doctors to prescribe lethal doses to mentally competent terminally ill patients is not legally protected. More
December 19, 2022
'Angela Hock is not a medical professional...She was running a s*** show,' said prosecutor Amy Jacobsen in her closing argument. More
December 15, 2022
The defense for self-proclaimed midwife Angela Hock claimed their client is a 'scapegoat' in their opening statement. (12/12/22) More
December 12, 2022
The prosecution said Angela Hock, a self-proclaimed midwife, is unlicensed. She's facing a felony charge after a baby died two days after birth. More
December 12, 2022
Angela Hock, a self-proclaimed Nebraska midwife, will stand trial for negligent child abuse charges after a home-birth delivery went tragically wrong. More
December 9, 2022
Ramesh Balwani was convicted on all 12 felony counts, and his lawyers contend he deserves a far more lenient sentence, preferably in home confinement. More
December 6, 2022
The suspect is alleged to have switched off a 79-year-old woman's ventilator because she was annoyed by the sound it made. More
December 5, 2022
Dr. Daniel N. Davidow, former medical director of a Virginia children's hospital, is charged with 4 felony sex crimes related to abuse at the facility. More
December 2, 2022
Yale University is accused in a federal lawsuit of discriminating against students with mental health disabilities, including pressuring some to withdraw. More
November 30, 2022
Indiana attorney general asks state medical licensing board to discipline Dr. Caitlin Bernard, who spoke of providing abortion to 10-year-old rape victim. More
November 30, 2022
Autopsy results are pending, and officials say it does not seem foul play was involved in Dr. Eric Salata's death. More
November 30, 2022
Dr. Saul Lipsman, a 77-year-old Palm Beach County, Florida podiatrist, was arrested on a sexual battery charge. More
October 25, 2022
52-year-old Eyvette Hunter is accused of “unlawfully causing the death of James Morris by intentional medical maltreatment," according to the indictment. More
August 24, 2022
A Pennsylvania man is facing multiple charges after police say he allegedly tried to buy stolen human remains from an Arkansas woman for possible resale... More
August 19, 2022
Pakistani doctor and former Mayo Clinic research coordinator Muhammad Masood pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge. He was arrested for telling paid FBI informants he pledged... More
August 16, 2022
Hundreds of alumni have alleged the late Dr. Richard Strauss abused them throughout his two decades at the school, and that Ohio State officials knew... More
July 26, 2022
Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist who gave the girl a medication-induced abortion on June 30, filed a tort claim notice over what she says... More
July 19, 2022
Attorney Kathleen DeLaney sent the “cease and desist” letter to Indiana Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita on behalf of obstetrician-gynecologist Caitlin Bernard, who performed a medical abortion... More
July 15, 2022
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... More
July 14, 2022
The prosecutors claimed that the woman acted on the basis of an excessive need for recognition. More
May 25, 2022
Three jurors who acquitted former Dr. William Husel, charged with killing 14 hospital patients, share their insights. More
May 20, 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... 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... 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... 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