Chronic Lyme Disease (Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome)
April 26, 2013
Lyme disease is an infection caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorfere (B. burgdorferi) that is transmitted by the bite of infected ticks (deer ticks). Now that the weather is beginning to warm up in many parts of the United States and people and their pets will be spending more time outside, [...]
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Maryland Stent Doctor’s Criminal Conviction Upheld
April 25, 2013
In its written opinion filed on April 23, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the conviction of a former Maryland cardiologist convicted of implanting medically unnecessary stents in cardiac patients in Maryland. The Maryland interventional cardiologist was in pr[...]
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Chicago Woman Loses Hip Implant Lawsuit
April 21, 2013
On April 16, 2013, a Chicago jury returned a defense verdict in favor of DePuy Orthopaedics, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, after deliberating for just over one day after a five-week trial. This was only the second jury trial of the almost 11,000 lawsuits filed against DePuy Orthopaedics (inclu[...]
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Kentucky $7.25 Million Jury Verdict For Failed Cochlear Implant
April 20, 2013
On April 16, 2013, a federal jury in Kentucky returned a $7.25 million verdict in favor of a little girl whose cochlear implant (a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing) failed due to moisture leakage t[...]
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Nevada Compounding Pharmacy Recalls Its Products
April 19, 2013
A large Southern Nevada compounding and specialty pharmacy that ships its products throughout the United States voluntarily recalled its products due to concerns over product sterility. In a press release issued by Green Valley Drugs on April 5, 2013, Green Valley Drugs announced that it was volu[...]
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Surgical Malpractice Makes Hospitals More Money
April 18, 2013
In a research study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association on April 17, 2013, the researchers found that hospitals make more money when patients suffer surgical complications compared to when patients do not experience surgical complications if the patients are on Medicare or [...]
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The Invisible Victims Of Medical Malpractice
April 17, 2013
We recently received a telephone call from a woman whose husband died from medical malpractice in Maryland. She told us about her husband’s medical condition that was not diagnosed in time despite what appeared to be clear symptoms of a serious and deadly condition that led to his painful an[...]
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Colorado LASIK Malpractice Case Scheduled For Trial
April 16, 2013
Trial is scheduled to begin on April 29, 2013 in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado for a LASIK medical malpractice case filed against a LASIK surgery center known as 20/20 Institute, LLC and a LASIK surgeon in which the medical malpractice plaintiffs (a husband and wife) [...]
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