News tagged with 'Whistleblower'

Texas nurse, Anne Mitchell was acquitted by a jury this afternoon in her whistleblower case against a doctor she claimed was threatening patient safety. She and another nurse have filed a civil suit after losing their jobs and draining their savings defending themselves.

Dimitrios Biller used to work for Toyota as a corporate attorney. His is sitting on thousands of pages of documents he says will show that the company has a pattern of fraud and secrecy.

A critic of the MRI drug, Omniscan, has been sued by GE Healthcare over his allegedly libelous words. Henrik Thomsen warned other researchers how the drug was linked to a rare, crippling, and potentially fatal skin disease, NSF. Many say it's Britain's draconian libel laws that are now being used to keep him quiet.

Wendell Potter used to talk to reporters on behalf of Big Insurance but after almost 20 years, he knew something wasn't right. Now he's speaking about Big Insurance to Congress, reporters, and on Bill Moyers tonight, telling insider secrets and adding a diverse voice to the health care reform debate.   He gives a insurance insider preview to IB News.

Big Insurance has issued a strong statement opposing the public health insurance option. In a letter to Sen. Edward Kennedy, the companies say a public plan would dismantle employer-based coverage. Meanwhile, an insurance whistleblower will testify Wednesday about the abuses he's seen by insurance executives at the expense of consumers. 

Eli Lilly will have to pay the federal government more than $1.4 billion to settle an off-label marketing scheme for its prescription drug, Zyprexa. The settlement is the largest amount paid by a single defendant in the history of the Department of Justice and was initiated by six former Lilly drug marketing representatives who became whistleblowers over the aggressive off-label marketing for the antipsychotic.