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PA Killed in Crossfire; Doc Gets 4 Years for Insider Trading; Wrongful Death Suit

— A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts

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Three suspects in the shooting death of South Carolina physician assistant Blaine Varner, PA-C, who was caught in the crossfire between two cars. (WIS 10)

New York nephrologist Paul Feldman, MD, was for participating in a $4 million insider trading scheme involving Alexion Pharmaceuticals. (Mid Hudson News)

A alleges a Connecticut man was given too much of the blood thinner enoxaparin (Lovenox) before a prostatectomy, and ultimately bled to death. (Hartford Courant)

Over 30 years, pharmaceutical companies have paid more than $62 billion in legal penalties -- but that's a drop in the bucket of the nearly $2 trillion that the 35 largest drug companies raked in over just 20 years, according to .

Connecticut physician Anatoly Braylovsky, MD, was for distributing an excessive amount of opioids. He allegedly had also expressed a desire to hire a hitman to target a patient he thought was a confidential informant. (Hartford Courant)

Texas twin brothers Desi Barroga, MD, and Deno Barroga, MD, pleaded guilty to submitting claims for steroid shots that they never administered, .

Michigan physician Daniel Castro, MD, was sentenced to for performing unnecessary sinus surgeries. (WWMT)

Lucy Letby, the British nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others, . (NBC News)

Two former executives of Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee that the facility paid doctors well above their fair market value in exchange for patient referrals. (ABC 9)

Scott Piper, MD, the Iowa physician who was sentenced to 2 years probation for assault, had his . (Iowa Capital Dispatch)

An appeals court judge has accusing the Mayo Clinic of illegally firing five employees who refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds. (Reuters)

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    Kristina Fiore leads MedPage’s enterprise & investigative reporting team. She’s been a medical journalist for more than a decade and her work has been recognized by Barlett & Steele, AHCJ, SABEW, and others. Send story tips to k.fiore@medpagetoday.com.