Clean Air Act | Aftermarket auto parts A federal consent agreement says Beast Industry, operating as MotorGenic, sold or offered thousands of parts designed to bypass emissions controls or conceal their removal. The company did not admit or deny the…
Environmental enforcement EPA Region 9 EPA alleged that an imported horse-fly trap carried the wrong establishment number. A final consent order imposed one civil penalty, while leaving the quantity of products and the precise corrective action outside the public record.…
Patient privacy | Settlement analysis A proposed Missouri class settlement would compensate eligible patient portal users while resolving allegations that third-party website technologies transmitted information to outside parties. Boone Health denies every claim and says it did nothing wrong. Proposed…
Clean Air Act • Detroit A certified monitor recorded visible-emissions readings as high as 51.55% opacity at an engine-production stack. EPA alleged that the company exceeded Michigan’s cited limit 16 times, then left all 16 events out of a required…
Nursing home accountability | New Jersey A 69-year-old man moved between four hospitals and one New Jersey facility in 2018, then died. Years later, the fight is over whether CareOne at Evesham can say its own label for his stay…
Why You Should Care Your personal health data should remain strictly confidential when you log into a secure hospital portal to view medical records or communicate with doctors. Hospital networks systematically deployed hidden tracking software that diverted this private medical…
Eight nursing staff illegally fired over union organizing efforts spent years fighting for backpay while management dragged compliance hearings through multiple delays. 8 Workers Discharged 6+ Years of Backpay Dispute $100M+ Parent Company Annual Revenue Scale TL;DR: Bluefield Regional Medical…
Investigation: Securities Fraud Enforcement A federal appeals court has kept an asset freeze in place against the drug developer and its three principals, citing preliminary evidence of understated executive pay, an audit that never began, and a fraud lawsuit that…
Drug Safety · Corporate Accountability Lucas Warner was 23 when he took a dose of a migraine-prevention drug and suffered devastating neurological injuries. Years later, a federal appeals court said his mother could pursue a limited claim asking whether scientific…
Labor Rights · Investigations The National Labor Relations Board found that a union representing grocery and other workers violated federal labor law in its treatment of its own staff. Shit like confiscating equipment, disrupting grievance protections and using hardball bargaining…