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Colorado Hospital Sued For Former Surgical Technician’s Substitution Of Syringes

March 22, 2016

Imagine receiving a letter from the hospital where you had surgery, advising you to have yourself immediately tested for HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C because you may have been exposed to a bloodborne pathogen during your surgery due to one of the hospital’s surgical technicians dive[...]

Colorado Abortion Doctor Sued For Causing Woman’s Sterility

December 18, 2015

A federal lawsuit was recently filed in Colorado against an abortion doctor and his abortion clinic for the alleged failure to remove all of the fetal tissue during an abortion, leading to the female plaintiff suffering sterility. The plaintiffs (husband and wife) also allege that the defendants f[...]

$17.8M Colorado Medical Malpractice Verdict For Injury To Four-Day-Old Baby

April 8, 2015

On March 27, 2015, a Colorado medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $17.8 million, the largest medical malpractice verdict ever in Colorado, for the severe and permanent injury to her four-day-old baby that allegedly resulted from being given the [...]

Legal Malpractice Verdict For Failure To File Timely Colorado Medical Malpractice Case

January 12, 2015

After one week of trial and one day of jury deliberations, a Colorado legal malpractice jury determined on December 8, 2014 that the plaintiff’s former Colorado medical malpractice attorneys were negligent in their failure to file the plaintiff’s Colorado medical malpractice case befo[...]

Appellate Court Affirms Colorado Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

December 31, 2014

In an unpublished opinion filed on December 24, 2014, the Colorado Court of Appeals upheld a Colorado medical malpractice defense verdict, finding that any error in the jury instructions regarding comparative negligence and mitigation of damages that were given by the trial judge was harmless erro[...]

Unlicensed Health Provider Operated Colorado Clinic For Nearly 30 Years

May 14, 2014

Despite at least 15 civil lawsuits and dozens of complaints to Colorado state regulators regarding a Colorado inpatient treatment center for adolescents with mental illness issues and drug abuse problems, the owner of the center was allowed to operate the facility for almost thirty years despite not[...]

Colorado Medical Malpractice Loss Means Parents Must Pay $340,000 For Defendant’s Costs

August 14, 2013

When a baby in the womb did not have a pulse and was not receiving oxygen for thirteen minutes during delivery four years ago, resulting in the baby suffering permanent brain damage requiring constant medical care for the rest of his life, without explanation as to what had occurred, the parents fi[...]

Colorado Nursing Home Hit With $3.7 Million Verdict For Resident’s Death

May 9, 2013

On May 6, 2013, a Pueblo, Colorado medical malpractice jury awarded the surviving daughter of a nursing home resident $3.7 million, which included $200,000 for compensatory damages and $3.5 million in punitive damages, for the alleged medical malpractice of the nursing home staff that resulted in [...]

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) [...]

Catholic Hospital Defends Medical Malpractice Suit By Claiming Unborn Babies Are Not People

January 31, 2013

While Catholic doctrine establishes the belief that life begins at conception, a Catholic-based hospital in Colorado is defending a medical malpractice case against it and others by alleging and maintaining that unborn babies are not persons. That position would seem to contradict the Catholic [...]

Medical Malpractice Case Filed Against Colorado Psychiatrist Arising Out Of Aurora Shootings

January 17, 2013

On January 14, 2013, the widow of a man killed in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater on July 20, 2012 during a shooting spree that killed 12 and injured another 70 filed a medical malpractice lawsuit and other claims in the United States District Court in Denver, Colorado against the University[...]

Colorado Medical Malpractice Damages Cap Reduces $10 Million Jury Award To $300,000 For Paralyzed Man

January 2, 2013

A 36-year-old man was left paralyzed from the chest down due to medical malpractice, as determined by a Colorado medical malpractice jury that awarded him $10 million for the noneconomic damages that he sustained as a result of medical negligence after a three-week trial. The total medical malprac[...]

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