A New Jersey-based medical technology company has just been slapped hard in a settlement reached with the U.S. Department of Justice. C.R. Bard Inc. -- headquartered in Murray Hill -- will pay out more than $50 million to settle charges that it violated the federal...
It's the perennial dividing point and line drawn in the sand by advocates of tort reform who favor caps on medical malpractice damages.And it's wrong, says a Johns Hopkins research team that has examined a voluminous amount of data relating to malpractice payments...
The term "sloppy and paste" might intuitively seem most aptly attached to a student's mediocre writing efforts or media plagiarism.The description also applies, though, to a practice in the medical field that many commentators are drawing attention to and voicing...