Stevan Jakovljevic Professor Avdeev Law 2010-05 Fall 2016 Case Brief Term Researched: Duty of Care Case Name: Howard D. Brunson (Plaintiff-Respondent) v. Affinity Federal Credit Union Legal Citation: 954 A.2d 550 (N.J. Super. App. Div. 2008) Date Decided:…
Nicolle Essman filed a complaint against Dr. George Dowell Jr. alleging sexual misconduct. Located in the master file of this case is Essman’s written complaint, Dowell’s written statement and notes from Essman’s office visit. On May 4, 2015, I met with Nicolle Essman regarding the complaint filed. Essman agreed to the interview.…
With Sam and Dr. Peters, it was an incident that could have been avoided altogether if the two men communicated better and cleared up information when they bumped into each for that brief moment in the market. As Sam came to seek an analysis on the recent business transaction it is best to look at all events that had partaken and move in from there. When it comes to Sam and Dr. Peters they both, in terms, can deal with civil or criminal capacity. For Sam, he can be liable in both civil and criminal. For civil it is due to the Libel, “the spreading of damaging statements in written form, including pictures, cartoons, and effigies” (Liuzzo, 2016, p. 52).…
Jerry Bullard was involved in healthcare fraud, it was one of the largest medicare fraud schemes in history tha cost the government $375 million over six years. Jerry C. Bullard was responsible for $583,688 of that. The federal judge determined he owed $317,779 in restitution. Jerry Bullard pled guilty in February 2012 to a single count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud.…
Abramski v the United States is a case that questioned the legality of a lawful gun-purchaser buying a gun for another lawful gun-owner who resides in a different state and inaccurately listing that they are the actual buyer. Due to the Supremacy clause (86), it was up to the Supreme Court to make the final decision by looking further into the Gun Control Act of 1968, which was established to try and stop felons from obtaining a gun, and determining exactly what it prohibits. In 2009, Bruce Abramski bought a gun for his uncle, Angel Alvarez, because after his years of service as a police officer, he was eligible for a discount at a local Virginia gun store. Before he purchased the weapon, three federally-licensed gun dealers told Abramski to…
Dear Children’s Hospital and Medical Center Administration, I am a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, and I have worked at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center for eleven years. I am writing to disclose information that I believe demonstrates a misuse of locus of authority, a breach of the American Medical Associations Code of Medical Ethics, and a breach of Children’s Hospital and Medical Center Code of Conduct by Dr. Bud Shaw. After verifying the facts of Dr. Shaw’s story with the employees that were on duty at the time of the incident, I have chosen to share the information with the administration of Children’s Hospital and Medical Center. On October 15, 2015 in a personal conversation that took place in the cafeteria of Children’s Hospital and Medical Center between Dr. Sally Doe, Dr. Shaw, and myself; Dr. Bud Shaw shared the actions he took in the care of his daughter while she was a patient at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in late September of 2015.…
Unethical behaviors are made by many corrections officers, police officers, judges, and defense attorneys that make up the criminal justice system. Unethical behaviors are behaviors in which a person acts upon an unfair or unmorally decision. Usually these behaviors result in the defendant going to jail and end up being set free because of being wrongfully convicted. Facts on Michael Morton’s Case Michael Morton was a normal 32 year old father and husband. His wife, Christine Morton, was attacked and killed in their home in Williams County, Texas.…
The Case of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Dr.Samuel A. Mudd was charged with Treason and Conspiracy. He was accused in the case of John Wilkes Booth, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The sentence from the military commision to Dr. Mudd was life in prison. Some believed that he deserved and some thought that he did not deserve it. To begin Dr. Mudd said that he knew John Wilkes Booth .…
Dean Corll recruited two teenagers David Brooks and Wayne Henley, to help him commit: abduction, rape, torture and murder of young boys from the Houston Heights area. The victims were invited to parties by David and Wayne, there they were given drugs and alcohol and tied to a torture board. Dean destructively, castrated, emasculated, sodomized and mutilated his victims. The Houston Police Department had listed the boys as "runaway" children. This allowed Dean and his accomplices to continue their active string of carnage.…
Fraud Case Analysis Rita Crundwell started working for the City of Dixon’s finance department as a high school student, but she eventually became the city’s treasurer and comptroller in 1983. Seven years after her appointment, she began a twenty-two-year fraud scheme that enabled her to embezzle approximately $54 billion dollars from the taxpayers she was serving. To embezzle the municipality’s funds unnoticed, Crundwell discretely opened a bank account at the Fifth and Third Bank where city’s bank accounts were housed. She listed the bogus account as the Reserve Sewer Capital Development Account (RSCDA) Reserve Fund. Soon after, Crundwell began transferring funds from various accounts to increase the Capital Development Fund account.…
The Notre Dame group has pioneered discoveries in the head and other body parts. The research that the Notre Dame group conducted represents upcoming treatments that they have researched and discovered for various different neurological diseases. One specific brain damage problem that the researchers have been working on is TBI or Traumatic Brain Injury. The researchers have been analyzing how to help patients recover after any TBI. The Notre Dame researchers wanted to come up with compound that would save the brain cells soon after a traumatic brain…
Imagine having the choice of life or death left in your hands alone. On one end, there is a rat, who is energetically running to find a hiding spot from the broom sweeping across the floor. On the other end, there is a stay-at-home mom, jumped up on the table, violently stabbing at the rat in attempts to scare it away from her. One of them will die. Most people would choose to save the stay-at-home mother with three children and not have a guilty thought cross their mind.…
Introduction Approximately 1.7 million people acquire a traumatic brain injury in the United States every year, impacting millions of people’s daily lives (Powell, Rich, & Wise, 2016). A traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when an external or internal force impacts the brain, which causes physical and chemical alterations in the brain. In recent years, rates of TBI have increased dramatically; however, more people are receiving treatment after a TBI, so mortality rates are decreasing (“Rates of TBI-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths,” 2016). According to Andriessen et al. (2011), the leading cause of a TBI is motor vehicle accidents, followed by falls, assaults, and sports.…
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to give an outline the fraudulent activities that take place in the healthcare world. This paper will provide information about the fraud that is ever so popular in today’s healthcare world. Overview/Summary Healthcare today is one of the most profitable businesses in America any many criminals are trying to take advantage of that and make a quick buck.…
Medical Malpractice Why it went to court. Mary Carnahan HA 210 Medical Law and Ethics October 31, 2014 Introduction We are going to take a medical malpractice case that went to court. Research the case to see why it went to court. I chose a medical malpractice case from Phoenixville, PA.…