The Columbus Dispatch | Marty Schladen Ohio’s first steps toward legal action against pharmacy middlemen are far from its last, Attorney General Dave Yost said Tuesday. With a change in governors, the new attorney general predicted more transparency and accountability for companies handling billions of dollars worth of drug transactions. Yost was speaking at an

The Columbus Dispatch | Kevin Stankiewicz Two employees of a Columbus nursing home and a nurse practitioner who was a contract worker there have been indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the neglect of two patients in 2017, Attorney General Dave Yost announced Thursday. Four other employees at Whetstone Gardens and Care

The Columbus Dispatch | Marty Schladen Ohio is recovering almost $7 million from two actions that authorities are labeling prescription-drug scams, Attorney General Dave Yost announced Thursday. Authorities were alerted to both by whistle-blower suits. In one, drug retailer Walgreens programmed its computers so it would over-dispense insulin to participants in Medicaid, the state-federal health

cleveland.com | Kaylee Remington MEDINA, Ohio — DNA evidence led state and local investigators to a more than two-decade old rape case that went unsolved. Samuel Legg, who was 29 at the time the attack took place, is being held in the Cuyahoga County Jail on a $1 million bond after his arrest in January

Cincinnati Enquirer | Max Londberg Ohio’s attorney general thinks the state should cover the majority of the costs for prosecuting four suspects charged in the slayings of eight people. While the trials are at least a year away, officials in rural Pike County estimate they’ll spend well over $1 million on the cases involving the

The Columbus Dispatch | Tim Feran Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics unit have reached a $120 million settlement with Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and 45 other state attorneys general to resolve allegations that the companies used deceptive marketing to promote their metal-on-metal hip implant devices. Under the settlement, Ohio will receive $4.4

COLUMBUS (Jan. 2, 2019) – Attorney General-elect Dave Yost today announced the appointment of his deputy attorney general for law enforcement, state solicitor, director of external affairs, chief information officer, and human resources chief and labor counsel. Yost previously announced appointments to several other top legal, management and operations positions. Information on those individuals can

The Columbus Dispatch | Jim Siegel In late November, the commerce department announced the winners of cultivator provisional licenses, but many of the unsuccessful applicants challenged the scoring and lawsuits were filed over various issues, including the selection of experts to oversee the process. Yost’s office launched an examination of the process and uncovered errors

The Columbus Dispatch | Jim Siegel As drug-overdose deaths in Ohio continue to hit shocking record highs, Dave Yost doesn’t want to just tweak the state’s effort to combat the heroin and opioid crisis. “A great deal of what we think is wrong, and we need to do things substantially differently,” said the state auditor