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Ohio Hospital Settles Medical Malpractice Claim Alleging Brain Bleed

March 9, 2013

On February 27, 2013, the Court of Claims of Ohio approved a medical malpractice settlement in the amount of $499,900 in a medical malpractice lawsuit filed on January 7, 2013 that alleged that an Ohio hospital failed to timely and appropriately diagnose a patient’s brain bleed that alleged[...]

West Virginia Nursing Homes Seek Limit On Their Responsibility For Injuries

March 8, 2013

On March 6, 2013, the West Virginia Senate passed a bill that would limit (cap) the amount that West Virginia nursing homes would be responsible to pay for injuries caused to residents through their negligence, by expressly including nursing homes under the West Virginia Medical Professionals Lia[...]

New York Hospital Sued For Hepatitis Allegedly Caused By Reusing Insulin Pens

March 7, 2013

An upstate New York hospital has been sued for medical malpractice by three patients who claim they contracted hepatitis when hospital employees reused insulin pens (pen-shaped injector devices that contain a reservoir for insulin or an insulin cartridge) on different patients that were designed fo[...]

Health Rankings Of U.S. States For 2012

March 6, 2013

A publication entitled America’s Health Rankings is the joint effort of the United Health Foundation, the American Public Health Association, and the Partnership for Prevention, and is funded entirely by the United Health Foundation. As reported in the 2012 edition of America’s Hea[...]

A Supreme Court Win For Man Injured By A Navy Doctor

March 5, 2013

In a case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court (“Supreme Court”) on March 4, 2013, the Supreme Court determined the issue whether the controlling provision of the Gonzalez Act, §1089(e), authorizes battery claims against the United States when military doctors operate without the patient�[...]

Today’s Blog Celebrates Two Years Of Consecutive Daily Blogging

March 4, 2013

Today we have reached the milestone of two years of consecutive daily blog postings. Tomorrow, we start our third year and we look forward to keeping our readers current with regard to medical malpractice issues and interesting relevant medical news. We have learned a lot while researching the t[...]

Another Minnesota Nursing Home Fails To Perform CPR, Resident Dies

March 3, 2013

In our blog for February 10, 2013 entitled, “Too Tired To Save A Life,” we reported on a Minnesota aide at a nursing home facility located in Waconia, Minnesota who failed to perform CPR on a nursing home resident on December 21, 2012, claiming that he was “too tired” to perf[...]

New York $4 Million Medical Malpractice Settlement For Birth Injuries

March 2, 2013

Last month it was announced that a New York medical malpractice case that had been filed in the Westchester County Supreme Court against the Westchester Medical Center had been settled for $4,098,273.00, for an infant who suffered severe spastic quadriplegia with severe microcephaly and profo[...]

Medicare Paid Nursing Homes $5.1 Billion For Poor Care In 2009

March 1, 2013

In a report issued on February 27, 2013 by the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it was reported that a study of a random sample of medical records from Skilled Nursing Facilities (“SNF,” which are commonly referred to [...]

Johns Hopkins Letter Regarding Dr. Nikita Levy

February 28, 2013

On January 26, 2013, the Dean of the Medical Faculty (CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine) and the President of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System (EVP, Johns Hopkins Medicine) sent a formal letter to the Executive Director of the Maryland Crime Victims’ Resource Center, Inc. and others reg[...]

Maryland Physicians Support Group Settles ADA Claim

February 27, 2013

A large Maryland physicians support group that employs over 1,000 non-physician staff who coordinate and support the clinical activities of the University of Maryland School of Medicine has agreed to pay $92,500 in settlement of the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) claim of its former employe[...]

VA Hospital In Virginia Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit

February 26, 2013

As a follow-up to our blog on November 16, 2012 entitled, “Family Of Navy Veteran Sues Virginia VA Medical Center After Her Suicide,” we are satisfied to report that on February 19, 2013, the U.S. government settled the medical malpractice case involving the Hampton (Virginia) Veteran[...]

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