Judgment Affirmed For Staffing Agency In Insurance Fraud Prevention Act Dispute

( February 10, 2025, 1:50 PM EST) -- TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey appellate court on Feb. 7 affirmed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment to a medical staffing agency and its parent company in a suit accusing them and related entities and individuals of medical malpractice, negligence and violation of the New Jersey Insurance Fraud Prevention Act (IFPA) related to the role of the agency’s client, an orthopedic provider, in administering knee injections resulting in an infection outbreak, agreeing with the lower court’s determination that the agency had “no role in the formation or operation” of the provider’s practice....