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Latest News in Consumer Protection

  • September 10, 2026

    11th Circ. Urged To Undo Trial Loss For Hospital Ratings Org

    Florida federal court order requiring hospital ratings nonprofit Leapfrog to revoke poor safety grades it issued to five hospitals owned by Tenet Healthcare Corp. violated the First Amendment, Leapfrog told the Eleventh Circuit in a Thursday opening brief challenging its bench trial loss.

  • September 10, 2026

    SEC Must Police Some Event Contracts: Citadel Securities

    Citadel Securities told federal derivatives and securities regulators that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should take the lead on oversight of event contracts and other wagers when they're linked to public companies or equities.

  • September 10, 2026

    Hospital Says Atty's 'Revenge' Drove Whistleblower Suit

    A Saul Ewing LLP attorney who quit a Pittsburgh-area hospital's board turned his representation of two whistleblower nurses into an act of "revenge," but failed to make the clients' accusations against their co-workers into a viable False Claims Act suit, the hospital said.

  • September 10, 2026

    USC Fights Uphill To Beat Claims It Fudged US News Ranking

    A California federal judge Thursday said he is unlikely to grant USC a win in a class action alleging it fudged data sent to U.S. News & World Report, saying he does not see why a plaintiffs' survey is inadmissible just because USC's expert could not replicate the results.

  • September 10, 2026

    Dompé To Pay $32M Over Foundation Co-Pay Kickback Claims

    The U.S. arm of Italian pharmaceutical company Dompé Farmaceutici SpA has agreed to pay $32 million to resolve allegations that it contributed funds to patient assistance foundations to induce purchases of its prescription eye drops Oxervate, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.

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