I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
The legal news just keeps getting worse for Meijer, Inc., the Michigan-based retail giant. Just a couple weeks after a state appeals court ruled that Meijer executives could still face criminal charges stemming from election law violations for which the company has already paid out nearly $1.7 million in fines and settlements, the company is settling a separate lawsuit over its pharmacy hiring for another $3 million. The Lansing State Journal reports:
Meijer Inc. will pay $3 million after the retail chain discovered it had employed four pharmacists who were barred from federal health programs.
The U.S. attorney’s office in western Michigan says Meijer brought the issue to the government’s attention. The pharmacists worked at Meijer from 1997 to 2006 and had been barred from Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare, a military health plan.
Federal law prohibits stores from using pharmacists on the debarment list. Meijer gets federal reimbursement for many prescriptions it sells.
Merry Christmas, Meijer.
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