Legal Matters Settlement finalized in AOA class action lawsuit The window for appeal has closed, ending the case with a settlement reached in July. Jan. 15, 2019Tuesday AOA Staff Contact AOA Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email A New Jersey federal court judge has finalized the settlement agreement in the class action suit against AOA brought by four of its members. The settlement limits AOA’s actual costs to $2,617,000, which will be paid by its insurance carrier. That amount covers the fees and costs of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, Philadelphia-based Duane Morris, LLP. Under the terms of the settlement, the four original plaintiffs—Albert Talone, DO, Craig Wax, DO, Richard Renza, DO, and Roy Stoller, DO—will each receive $15,000 to be paid from Duane Morris’s fees. There is no other monetary settlement in the case. The Board of Trustees approved the settlement agreement in July. For further reading: AOA settles class-action lawsuit More in Newsbriefs TouroCOM opens new school in Great Falls, Montana The new campus is Touro University’s third college of osteopathic medicine and the first nonprofit medical school in Montana. “Operation Nightingale” fraud scheme alert: Bogus nursing credentials sold to thousands of aspiring nurses It was recently discovered that a scheme, nicknamed “Operation Nightingale,” offered aspiring nurses the opportunity to purchase fake nursing degree diplomas and transcripts. Previous articleNumber of DOs has more than tripled since 1990, new report finds Next articleWebinar to help doctors better understand contracts
TouroCOM opens new school in Great Falls, Montana The new campus is Touro University’s third college of osteopathic medicine and the first nonprofit medical school in Montana.
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