$7.4 Million Los Angeles Medical Malpractice Verdict
March 26, 2013
On March 22, 2013, a Los Angeles Superior Court medical malpractice jury returned a verdict after less than two days of deliberations in the amount of $7.4 million in favor of a 26-year-old woman who suffered severe brain injuries after treatment at Palmdale Regional Medical Center. The medical m[...]
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Chicago Nursing Home Verdict
March 25, 2013
On March 20, 2013, a Cook County jury returned its verdict in the amount of $842,801 in favor of an 87-year-old resident of the Kenwood Healthcare Center in Chicago who had fallen at the nursing home on December 26, 2008 and suffered a broken hip, fractured pelvis, and fractured shoulder, all on h[...]
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Da Vinci Robotic Surgical System Instrument Failures
March 24, 2013
The FDA maintains a database called MAUDE, which stands for Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience. MAUDE data represents reports of adverse events involving medical devices. The data consists of voluntary reports since June 1993, user facility reports since 1991, distributor reports sin[...]
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Da Vinci Robotic Surgery Malpractice Claims
March 23, 2013
Robotic surgery promises less invasive surgery resulting in less blood loss during surgery, less pain, and a faster recovery time than with other surgical methods. One of the most common surgical robots is called the da Vinci, which is manufactured and sold by Intuitive Surgical (“Intuit[...]
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