CHARLESTON – A federal judge says a federal lawsuit challenging systemic deficiencies in the state’s foster care system is “tailor-made” for class action status.
RICHMOND, Virginia – A federal appeals court has heard oral arguments for a case in which West Virginia seeks to reverse a lower court ruling requiring the state’s Medicaid program to treat transgender people’s healthcare needs.
CHARLESTON – A former employee of the state Department of Health and Human Resources says she was a victim of sexual harassment while working at the William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital.
CHARLESTON – An Ohio woman is suing the state Department of Health and Human Resources after she says she was attacked by a male patient at a psychiatric hospital.
CHARLESTON – The ACLU of West Virginia has settled a lawsuit after the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources introduced more accessible policies for transgender people to amend birth certificates.
CHARLESTON – Attorneys representing children born addicted to opioids have filed a motion seeking to reopen and place certain infants on the same active docket as others.
CHARLESTON – The circuit judge who has been accused of pointing a handgun at an attorney during a hearing also has been found to have violated court rules in his handling of a child abuse and neglect case by repeatedly accusing a child of lying.
MORGANTOWN – A Marion County couple blames the state Department of Health and Human Resources for a 5-year-old girl being sexually assaulted by a 12-year-old boy under DHHR supervision.
HUNTINGTON — A man is suing the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources and Mildred Mitchell Bateman Hospital alleging that he was injured by another employee.
CHARLESTON – A civil lawsuit filed by a teenager claiming a state Child Protective Services worker kidnapped her, raped her and forced her to use illegal drugs has been amended to include an affidavit from another CPS worker corroborating many details in the complaint.
CHARLESTON – A Mason County man blames the state Department of Health and Human Resources for allowing his biological granddaughters and another girl to live in a home with a registered sex offender.
CHARLESTON – A Hardy County woman says the state Department of Health and Human Resources’ failure to investigate an abuse allegation led to the death of her grandson.
Meanwhile, the drug distributors -- McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health -- sought to put the focus on the role of prescribers, as well as health officials' decision not to go after distributors earlier.
