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$10M Alabama Medical Malpractice Verdict For Missed Meningitis Diagnosis In Infant

February 17, 2016

On February 12, 2016, an Alabama medical malpractice jury awarded a seriously injured child and his family $10 million for the missed diagnosis of bacterial meningitis when the child was three months old, resulting in the child’s permanent brain injury. As a result of the alleged negligent fai[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Verdict Due To Judge’s Improper Communication With Jury

December 2, 2015

In its opinion filed on November 6, 2015, the Supreme Court of Alabama (“Alabama Supreme Court”) held that the trial judge should have granted the defendants’ motion for mistrial during jury deliberations in an Alabama medical malpractice trial because the trial judge had improperl[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Overturns Medical Malpractice Verdict Due To Lack Of Expert Testimony

November 29, 2015

In its decision filed on November 13, 2015, the Supreme Court of Alabama (“Alabama Supreme Court”) overturned a verdict in favor of a husband and wife in their Alabama medical malpractice case, finding that the plaintiffs had failed to provide necessary expert testimony regarding the st[...]

Alabama Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict In Birth Injury Case

July 17, 2015

On June 19, 2015, after a two-week trial and three and a half hours of deliberations, an Alabama medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendants. The case involved the birth injuries suffered by a now 11-year-old boy who sustained a brain injury due to alleged medical neglig[...]

Alabama State Senator/Doctor Named In Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

June 18, 2015

An Alabama medical malpractice lawsuit was filed on June 12, 2015 against an Alabama physician who was elected to the Alabama State Senate in November 2014. The Alabama medical malpractice plaintiffs allege that the defendant physician had negligently failed to instruct and insure that the other d[...]

Alabama Federal Lawsuit Claims Zofran Caused Child’s Birth Defects

May 17, 2015

A defective drug lawsuit filed on April 1, 2015 in federal court in Alabama claims that a child’s multiple birth defects were caused by his mother’s use of Zofran during her pregnancy, which was prescribed by her doctor to treat her nausea during her pregnancy. Zofran, a prescriptio[...]

Three Alabama Prisoner Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Filed For Three Inmate Deaths In 2013

November 3, 2014

An Alabama civil rights attorney recently filed three Alabama prisoner medical malpractice lawsuits on behalf of the families of three inmates who died as a result of three different incidents of alleged medical neglect in 2013. All three of the prisoners were being detained in the Madison Count[...]

Alabama $4M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Heart Attack Misdiagnosed As Stomach Virus

August 24, 2014

On August 19, 2014, after a seven day trial, an Alabama medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $4 million. The medical malpractice defendant was the emergency room physician who had treated the 40-year-old man in the hospital’s emergency room,[...]

Man Enters Hospital For Circumcision, Leaves Without His Penis

July 28, 2014

Sounds like a bad joke, but it was horrifically serious for a man in Alabama. On July 22, 2014, the Alabama man filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in Alabama state court against a hospital and others for his injuries and damages resulting from the amputation of his penis during a circumcision [...]

Alabama Hospital Sued Twice Last Week For Medical Malpractice

July 24, 2014

An Alabama hospital had a bad week last week: it was named as a medical malpractice defendant in two separate cases filed on behalf of two men who had been shot and allegedly suffered injuries as a result of medical negligence at the hospital. One of the men died from his wounds (his family alleges [...]

Alabama Nursing Home Sued For Failure To Monitor Resident’s Blood Thinners, Leading To Death

April 12, 2014

An Alabama nursing home is being sued by the daughter of a former resident who died as a result of alleged nursing home negligence. The nursing home neglect lawsuit was filed on April 1, 2014, claiming that the 78-year-old woman died from coagulopathy due to the failure of the nursing home staff to [...]

$7.5M Alabama Medical Malpractice Verdict For A Man And His Wife

March 4, 2014

A Jefferson County, Alabama medical malpractice jury has awarded a 55-year-old man and his wife $7.5 million in their medical malpractice case that alleged that a local hospital was negligent in its care and treatment of the man and that its negligence led to the man’s permanent incontinence [...]

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