$1.72M Alaska Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Neurosurgeon
May 12, 2014
On May 5, 2014, an Alaska medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1.72 million against a neurosurgeon whom the jury found to have acted negligently and recklessly while performing surgery on a patient in 2009. The verdict included $232,000 for past medical expenses incurred b[...]
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Nursing Home Rape
May 10, 2014
On May 7, 2014, a 24-year-old certified nursing assistant (“CNA”) employed at a Massachusetts nursing home was arraigned on four felony counts – two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault, and one count of battery – with regard to the alleged rape of a 69-year-old fema[...]
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Nursing Home Falls
May 9, 2014
Too many elderly and infirmed residents of nursing homes in the United States suffer preventable falls that result in further physical or mental deterioration, including fractures that may require surgery or even an untimely and unexpected death. Many nursing home falls are foreseeable and preventab[...]
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Fungal Meningitis Claims Settled For $100 Million
May 8, 2014
On May 6, 2014, a proposed $100 million settlement was filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Boston, Massachusetts regarding the claims of 3,300 claimants arising out of the allegedly contaminated steroid injections manufactured by the New England Compounding Center (“NECC”) that was loc[...]
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May Is Lyme Disease Awareness Month
May 6, 2014
May 2014 is Lyme Disease Awareness Month in the United States, focusing attention on Lyme disease prevention and treatment. The CDC’s most current statistics regarding the number of reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States, from 2003 through 2012, indicate that the number of confi[...]
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$850M Vaginal Mesh Settlement Announced
May 2, 2014
On April 30, 2014, Endo International plc (“Endo”), a global specialty healthcare company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland (with its U.S. headquarters located in Malvern, Pennsylvania) that develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes pharmaceutical and device products, announced t[...]
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