Wrong-Eye Surgery Suit; Baby-Killer Nurse’s Life Sentence; $1.4B COVID Relief Fraud

A late South Carolina man’s estate alleges that Lowrey King, MD, operated on the wrong eye. The estate of James Sams claims that staff prepared his left eye for a pars plana vitrectomy, but once in the operating room, King operated on the right eye instead. Sams’s estate is also suing Roper St. Francis Healthcare, the Retina Eye Center of Charleston, and Carolina Eye Care Physicians. (WCSC5)

Lucy Letby, the British nurse who was found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others, was sentenced to life in prison. (CNN)

One of the doctors who first sounded the alarm about Letby has called for U.K. National Health Service executives — who allegedly ignored early warnings on the nurse — to be held accountable to regulators, as doctors and nurses are to their respective boards. (The Guardian)

Former Missouri respiratory therapist Jennifer Hall, who pleaded guilty in the deaths of two patients, was sentenced to 18 years in prison. (AP)

Lawrence Rudolph, the dentist and big-game hunter who murdered his wife while on safari, was sentenced to life in prison and millions of dollars in penalties. (Washington Post)

South Carolina family doctor James Oscar Williams, MD, was sentenced to 5 years in prison after he prescribed 100,000 pills of various controlled substances to one couple over a 5-year period. (WYFF4)

Florida podiatrist Scott Strolla has pleaded guilty to felony battery in order to avoid prison time related to an alleged rape of a drunk woman. (12 News)

Former Iowa nurse Douglas Kelley pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, including an image of a minor under age 12, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa.

A Georgia lab owner was sentenced to 27 years in prison after he submitted more than $463 million in claims for genetic and other tests that patients didn’t need, the Department of Justice (DOJ) reported.

And the DOJ announced it has seized over $1.4 billion in stolen COVID relief funds. (Reuters)

Generic drug giants Teva and Glenmark will pay $225 million and $30 million, respectively, and enter into deferred prosecution agreements to settle federal criminal price-fixing charges. (Politico)

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