Mother Sues Arkansas Midwifery for Baby’s Injuries

Earlier in January, McKeen & Associates announced it has filed a complaint against a Fayetteville, Arkansas-based midwifery, A Mommy’s Butterfly of Midwifery Services, on behalf of a mother who hired midwives from the company for a home birth and pre-natal services. Brian McKeen and Andrew Kay of McKeen & Associates of Detroit, Michigan, filed the






Popular Drugstores are Added to New York City’s Opioid Lawsuit

New York City has added the CVS, Walmart, Walgreens and Rite Aid as defendants in its lawsuit previously filed. Besides Purdue Pharma LP, the list of defendants named in NYC’s suit includes long-time opioid manufacturers Allergan Plc, Endo International Plc, Johnson & Johnson, and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., and distributors AmerisourceBergen Corp, Cardinal Health Inc and McKesson Corp.  The City is seeking $500 million.




Hospital Settles Lawsuit Involving Employee Back Pay

Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California, will pay $2.95 million in a lawsuit alleging it shortchanged the hourly pay of employees. The most recent settlement stems from litigation filed in 2014 by Jeanette Munden, a former Los Robles nurse who alleged her hourly pay was routinely rounded in a way that short-changed her check.