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newspersonalinjury blogs about a specific personal injury lawsuit but I mention it here because it raises a general issue about whether people should ever sign releases in such cases.  For what it’s worth, I don’t think J&J is doing anything most defendant firms wouldn’t do under such circumstances, either. Johnson & Johnson has retained Broadspire,…

Elizabeth O’Shea comments: This week, a woman and her partner will be put on trial in Queensland for a crime that should not be on the statute books. Tegan Leach and her partner, Sergie Brennan, have been charged under sections 225 and 226 of the Queensland Criminal Code 1899. These sections prohibit a woman procuring…

Neal D. Saferstein, 37, of Mount Laurel, NJ, was sentenced today to 276 months in prison for running a multi-million dollar telemarketing scam that defrauded as many as 400,000 small businesses out of as much as $75 million, announced U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger. Saferstein pleaded guilty October 30, 2009 to wire fraud, mail fraud,…

The Australian Privacy Foundation has written to the Victorian Department of Health over reports that 500 iPads are to be provided to graduate doctors and nurses. Noting the potential benefits of such technology, APF honed in on a few key privacy and security and issues. In a letter signed by Roger Clarke, the group asks…

Sandra Yin reports: Managers at Genesys Regional Medical Center reprimanded a nurse for unprofessional behavior, based on a photo that ended up on Facebook, the Flint Journal reports. The photo, which was taken in the early spring showed another nurse removing a splinter from Cathy Miller in an otherwise empty operating room at the hospital based…

Pointer: Shelly DuBois follows up on recent reports about the loose HIPAA/HITECH guidelines that allow too many people to get their hands on patient data, quoting a number of people in an article on CNN.