Septuagenarian Claire Hanley, MD, first sued the country’s largest municipal health system in 2019 after she was replaced by someone 30 years younger.

Technologist Robert Harrison and his attorneys filed the complaint in 2021, charging that shareholders grossly overpaid in the deal, among other contentions

Attorneys allege Eastern Radiologists failed to implement the proper protections that would have kept hackers from capturing nearly 890,000 patients’ data. 

Defense attorneys say the case boils down to challenges reading the exam, which was “complex with subtle findings that the experts simply interpreted differently.” 

Attorneys accuse Digirad of failing to pay minimum wages or overtime and shirking laws requiring regular meal and rest periods. 

Physician allegedly kept patients in scanners for extra examinations as part of a study evaluating the livers of indigenous peoples. 

The dispute dates to August, when Suzanne Garraffa first contacted Connecticut-based Jefferson Radiology seeking X-rays. 

Florida resident Rick Nassenstein allegedly “played a central role” in a scheme that involved paying physicians “exorbitant” fees to refer patients for PET scans.