What's New in Dental News
13 Apr
New York dentist, Leonard Morse, DDS, who says his career was ruined by a Medicaid fraud suit filed by former state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will get a chance to clear his name, according to a story in the New York Daily News.
Dr. Morse filed a $75 million lawsuit claiming he was the victim of malicious prosecution in 2006 when Spitzer charged the dentist with filing more than …
7 Apr
A 19-year-old from Lawrence Kansas has filed a lawsuit seeking damages after suffering brain damage during a dental procedure.
The lawsuit alleges that oxygen and nitrous oxide lines were crossed during design and construction of Dr. Kirk Vincent’s new office. It also alleges the city, during inspections of the office, should have caught the problem.
The suit was filed in Douglas County District Court on behalf of Austin Stone and …
8 Dec
A woman filed a lawsuit against a dental chain who she claimed caused permanent injury by placing an ill-fitting dental bridge that contained toxic levels of lead. Faye Lewis filed the suit against Aspen Dental and two of their dentists for negligence.
She claims her jaw now slips out of place, swells and her teeth don’t meet. She now wears a special appliance for TMJ disorder.
Employees at the dental …
9 Nov
A few weeks after a Michigan woman’s death was blamed on her untreated periodontitis, a Michigan lawyer has filed a lawsuit to try to block the state’s termination of adult dental Medicaid benefits. The suit was filed by Gary Gordon in U.S. District Court on behalf of 400,000 Michigan Medicaid beneficiaries who lost their access to dental care when the governor canceled the benefit in July.
The lawsuit claims that …
