Urine drug test maker must face whistleblower lawsuit, judge rules

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A fast-growing North Carolina-based manufacturer of urine drug test analyzers must face a whistleblower lawsuit accusing it of defrauding Medicare and Medicaid through false claims about its products, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco ruled that the plaintiffs, had presented sufficient details regarding Carolina Liquid Chemistries Corp’s alleged scheme to support a claim under the False Claims Act. read more »

U.S. charges former Uber security chief with covering up massive 2016 hacking

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In an unprecedented case, a former chief security officer for Uber Technologies was criminally charged on Thursday with trying to cover up a 2016 hacking that exposed personal information of about 57 million of the ride-hailing company’s customers and drivers.

The U.S. Department of Justice charged Joseph Sullivan, 52, with felony obstruction of justice, saying he took “deliberate steps” to keep the Federal Trade Commission from learning about the hack while the agency was monitoring Uber security in the wake of an earlier breach.

The case was believed to be first time a corporate information security officer has been charged with concealing a hack. read more »

Bayer agrees to pay $1.6bn to settle US Essure claims

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Thousands of women accused Bayer of underreporting injury complaints linked to Essure birth control device.

The deal will resolve about 90% of the 39,000 lawsuits consolidated in courts in California and Pennsylvania, Bayer said Thursday in a statement. The proposed payout is considerably more than the $1.1 billion Bayer paid in 2013 to acquire Conceptus Inc., the company that developed the device. Bayer stopped selling Essure in 2018. read more »