Author: Justin Lane

Below are Ring of Fire’s top stories from the past week. Senator Shuts Down GOP Criticism of Maternity Healthcare Coverage Critics of the Affordable Care Act have attempted to attack every aspect of the healthcare law, including criticizing its inclusion of maternity healthcare coverage as an “essential health benefit.” On Tuesday, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) offered a “powerful rebuttal” to that criticism, ThinkProgress reports. … Read more. Conservative Argument that Obamacare Gives Immigrants Free Healthcare is BS Conservatives love to perpetuate the misguided notion that “Obamacare” gives free health coverage to illegal immigrants. Many reference this viral quote, which...

District Court Judge Donovan W. Frank issued an order earlier this week establishing the roles for Co-Lead Counsel Committee positions for the Stryker hip recall multidistrict litigation (MDL) 13-2441. The order is issued following a hearing we reported on in September. Ben Gordon, a Levin, Papantonio law firm shareholder and Stryker hip recall lawyer, was appointed to the Plaintiffs’ Lead Counsel Committee for the Stryker hip recall MDL. The committee is responsible for presenting to the court the position on all matters arising during pretrial proceedings; coordinating the initiation and conduct of discovery on behalf of plaintiffs; conducting settlement...

Below are Ring of Fire’s top stories from the past week. Video Rewind Texas Pipeline Spills 17,000 of Crude Oil A Koch-owned pipeline spilled 17,000 gallons (400 barrels) of crude oil in the town of Smithville, TX. yesterday. This incident marks the latest in a number of inland oil spills that have ravaged the continent. … Read more. Video Outs Walmart’s Brutally Abusive Pork Supplier Mercy for Animals, an animal rights nonprofit group,recently released a video, taken by an anonymous investigator, showing the brutal and extremely inhumane treatment of pigs by meat distributor Rosewood Farms. Rosewood Farms is based...

Michigan based New Century Adult Day Program Services LLC and New Century Adult Day Treatment Inc. (collectively New Century) have been convicted for $3.2 million in Medicare fraud as part of a scheme to defraud the government. download software According to the announcement from the Department of Justice, Glenn English, 53, and Richard Hogan, 67, were found guilty of health care fraud by the District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan. Mr. English was additionally convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and six other counts of health care fraud. The scheme was to...

According to a report from Reuters and corroborated by CNN Money, the banking giant JPMorgan Chase has reached a tentative $13 billion settlement over investigations into the banks alleged bad loan and business securities practices. The potential settlement does not relieve JPMorgan from facing criminal charges for its actions. The settlement will be distributed as $9 billion in fines and $4 billion in what is being called “consumer relief.”  The bank will also agree to assist in ongoing criminal investigations against individuals. “Although the numbers of this potential settlement may appear large, they pale in comparison to the profits...