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Ohio Nursing Home Verdict For Suffocation Death

September 15, 2013

On September 9, 2013, after approximately two weeks of trial, an Ohio jury awarded $375,000 to the family of a 70-year-old nursing home resident who suffocated and died when the electricity to the nursing home went out during a storm, causing his breathing machine to stop functioning. The res[...]

$5.5M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Improperly Placed Cardiac Pacing Wires

September 14, 2013

On September 6, 2013, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5.5 million in favor of the estate of a 53-year-old woman and her surviving daughter for the death of the woman when she bled to death within minutes after improperly placed temporary cardiac pacing wi[...]

$4M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Perform Timely Cesarean Delivery

September 13, 2013

On September 7, 2013, after a four-day Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury trial in Lehigh County Court, a verdict in the amount of $4 million was awarded to a 29-year-old woman and her child as a result of the injuries they both suffered in August 2009 during the 16-hour-long vaginal delivery of[...]

Dental Malpractice Class Action Lawsuit Filed In Oklahoma

September 12, 2013

On September 3, 2013, a class action dental malpractice lawsuit was filed against a Tulsa, Oklahoma dentist, his dental practice, and several pharmaceutical companies by former dental patients who claim that they were exposed to hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV due to poor conditions and unsanitar[...]

Maryland Hospital Immune For Its Failure To Involuntarily Admit Patient

September 11, 2013

On September 5, 2013, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Special Appeals”) held that a Maryland hospital was entitled to statutory immunity from any liability when it decided not to involuntarily admit an individual so long as it acted in good faith and with reason[...]

LASIK Lawsuits

September 10, 2013

LASIK (Laser-Assisted in situ Keratomileusis) surgery involves the precise and controlled removal of corneal tissue by a special laser that reshapes the cornea and thereby changes its focusing power. The cornea is a part of the eye that helps focus light to create an image on the retina by bendin[...]

Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Settled For Limbs Lost To Flesh-Eating Bacteria

September 9, 2013

On September 5, 2013, a Massachusetts woman who had all four of her limbs amputated after she contracted flesh-eating bacteria while giving birth at a local Massachusetts hospital settled her medical malpractice lawsuit for $9.5 million. The 41-year-old woman alleged in her medical malpractice [...]

Oklahoma Legislature Set To Reinstate Medical Malpractice Reforms During Special Session

September 8, 2013

On June 4, 2013, the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma held that the Oklahoma statutory requirement that an affidavit of merit be filed in actions for professional negligence (medical malpractice) is a “special law” that regulates the practice of law that violates the Oklahoma Constitutio[...]

Medical Firm Agrees To Pay $14.5 Million To Settle Medicare Overbilling Allegations

September 7, 2013

On July 3, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Tacoma, Washington-based Sound Inpatient Physicians Inc. (“Sound Inpatient”), a provider of hospitalists and other physicians to 70 hospitals and post-acute facilities in 22 U.S. states, has agreed to pay $14.5 million to s[...]

Maryland Actos Trial Underway

September 6, 2013

On September 3, 2013, a Baltimore City jury trial began in which the plaintiff alleges that the diabetes drug Actos was the cause of the bladder cancer that led to the death of a former U.S. Army translator in 2012. Actos is manufactured by Asia’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, Takeda P[...]

Kentucky Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Claims Misdiagnosis Of HIV

September 5, 2013

Imagine being told that you are HIV-positive and then living with the stigma of HIV and taking the HIV drug cocktail known as HAART (“highly active antiretroviral therapy”) in order to prolong your life before being told eight years later that you had been misdiagnosed as having�[...]

New Lyme Disease Statistics (2013)

September 4, 2013

The CDC reported on August 19, 2013 that preliminary estimates indicate that the number of Americans diagnosed with Lyme disease each year is around 300,000, based on findings from three ongoing CDC studies that use different methods. The first study analyzes medical claims information for ap[...]

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