Nurse Accused of Poisoning Pets; Health Exec Shoplifted From Target? Docs Sue Hacker

A Florida nurse is accused of fatally poisoning her neighbor’s two pet cats and pregnant chihuahua, killing the dog’s eight puppies in the womb. Tamesha Knighten allegedly laced chicken with phorate, a pesticide, to kill the animals. (FOX 13)

Connor Bowman, MD, the former Mayo Clinic resident accused of fatally poisoning his wife, is now facing first-degree murder charges. (CNN)

A healthcare executive in New Mexico was accused of shoplifting from Target despite making nearly $300,000 a year. (KOB 4)

Juror No. 1 in the “Take Care of Maya” trial did not commit misconduct, a Florida judge ruled, denying a motion from Johns Hopkins lawyers for a new trial based on juror misconduct. (FOX 13)

Former traveling nurse Timothy Jackson was sentenced to 7 years in prison for raping a patient at a Methodist Hospital in Gary, Indiana. (Times of Northwest Indiana)

A medical assistant in south Florida has been accused of secretly recording victims while they urinated at Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital. (WPLG)

New York anesthesiologist Paul Giacopelli, MD, was arrested for allegedly drugging and sexually abusing a woman on multiple occasions. (Journal News)

Two hospitals and an orthopedic group in New York filed a lawsuit against a ransomware group in hopes of issuing a subpoena to get a cloud storage firm to surrender data the ransomware group allegedly stole from the organizations in an August data breach. (Becker’s Health IT)

North Carolina’s Novant Health has agreed to pay $6.6 million to settle a lawsuit brought by patients over its use of Meta Pixel to track and collect patient data. (WRAL News)

Andrew Bhatnager, PhD, sued the attorney who defended him in a fertility lawsuit involving a malfunction that resulted in the loss of 4,000 embryos and eggs, claiming that the attorney charged him excessive fees and interest on more than $175,000 in unpaid legal bills. (Cleveland.com)

A home healthcare company will pay almost $10 million to resolve claims that it falsely billed for in-home nursing and personal care when its employees weren’t actually present in patients’ homes, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.