There are investigations going on now regarding medical devicemakers potentially providing illegal kickers to doctors, which may lead to hospitals being sued. As quoted in the story:

While those investigations so far have focused on the devicemakers themselves and alleged kickback payments to physicians, some healthcare attorneys say it's only a matter of time before prosecutors follow the money downstream to the hospitals where some of those doctors work, sit on formularies or specialty committees, and perform surgery.

Read the whole story at modernhealthcare.com.

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The following is being issued by Judge Edward Fadeley, Retired Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court:

Today's blogosphere is a veritable Wild West of verbal ambushes and shootouts, with very little fear of legal recourse to keep character assassination, defamation and dirty business tricks in check.

It's an area of the law that desperately needs serious attention. Self-proclaimed "experts" and "journalists" abound on the Internet. "Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty, but spewing lies, libel and invective," wrote Daniel Lyons in Forbes. Some 50 percent to 60 percent of blog attacks are now sponsored by business rivals, said a lawyer quoted in the story.

Read more about it on Yahoo! Business News.