Feds won t intervene in BNSF suit against asbestos clinic
Daily Inter Lake, The (Kalispell, MT)
Feb. 28 The federal government decided last week it will not intervene in a lawsuit against the
Center for Asbestos Related Disease in
Libby that alleges the nonprofit clinic committed Medicare fraud by using federal monies to perform unnecessary screenings and treatments on its patients.
The complaint was filed by
BNSF Railway Co. The railroad giant alleges, among other things, that the center, commonly referred to as the CARD clinic, violated the False Claims Act by using federal grants to misdiagnose patients with various asbestos-related diseases conditions that qualify individuals for medical coverage under the Affordable Care Act when properly diagnosed.
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December 22, 2020
The Native Ecosystems Council and the Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a complaint in the District of Montana on Monday claiming that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) should not have authorized livestock grazing, wet meadow enclosures, fence construction and other livestock water modifications on public lands.
The plaintiffs claimed that the BLM breached the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) with its authorizations and analyses relating to livestock water within the Iron Mask Planning Area. The plaintiffs purported that the BLM’s actions authorizing and completing the rangeland projects without an environmental analysis was an illegal decision.