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Colorado Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Hospital For Death Of 10-Year-Old

January 10, 2017

On December 22, 2016, the parents of a Colorado ten-year-old boy who died on Christmas Eve in 2014, forty minutes after being sent home from the defendant Colorado hospital’s emergency room, filed their Colorado medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital, a physician at th[...]

$20M Illinois Medical Malpractice Settlement For Lawyer’s Misdiagnosed Brain Aneurysm

November 28, 2016

On November 21, 2016, an Illinois judge approved a $20 million medical malpractice settlement reached during an Illinois medical malpractice trial that began on October 28, 2016, for the serious brain injury suffered by a 50-year-old attorney in 2012 after he suffered a stroke two days after being e[...]

$1.5M South Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Emergency Room Negligence Leading to Death

October 29, 2016

On October 20, 2016, a South Carolina medical malpractice jury rendered a verdict in the amount of $1,500,000 in favor of the estate of a 41-year-old man whom the jury found to have been the victim of emergency room malpractice that led to his untimely death. The defendant was the for-profit corpora[...]

$1.9M Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict Against A Hospital For Death Caused By Untreated DVT

October 28, 2016

An Ohio medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs on October 13, 2016 in the amount of $1.9 million for the wrongful death of a 31-year-old woman who was misdiagnosed and negligently treated in the defendant hospital’s emergency room and then sent home, where s[...]

$19M Michigan Medical Malpractice Verdict Will Be Reduced To $729,000 Due To Cap

October 22, 2016

A Michigan medical malpractice jury recently awarded $19 million to the family of an infant who died due to medical negligence. However, due to Michigan’s cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases, the Michigan medical malpractice jury’s verdict will be reduced to $729,000[...]

Alabama Patient Dumping Lawsuit Settled

October 18, 2016

It has been reported that an Alabama patient dumping lawsuit that had been filed in 2013 was settled for an undisclosed sum with the patient’s family on October 6, 2016. The patient died from hypothermia and other complications about a week after he was dumped on a public street by the defenda[...]

$625K Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict For Undiagnosed Mini Stroke

October 4, 2016

On September 22, 2016, a 12-person Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff after a four-day trial and three days of jury deliberations. The Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury found that the defendant emergency room physician was negligent in his treatm[...]

Idaho Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Wrong Medication Caused Baby’s Death

September 8, 2016

The parents of a baby who was given the wrong medication in an Idaho hospital’s emergency room that resulted in his death have filed an Idaho medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against a traveling nurse who was working under contract in the local Idaho hospital and the agency that[...]

$3.7M Florida Medical Malpractice Arbitration Award For Pregnant Woman’s Death

August 26, 2016

On August 2, 2016, a Florida medical malpractice arbitration panel found that the defendant hospital’s medical negligence caused the death of a pregnant woman who had gone to its emergency room with breathing problems. The medical malpractice arbitration panel awarded the woman’s child, [...]

New York Hospital Negligence Lawsuit Alleges Patient Needlessly Lost His Leg

July 16, 2016

A New York medical negligence lawsuit that was recently filed in the federal court in Brooklyn against a local hospital alleges that a series of unnecessary and unreasonable delays in treating a man who arrived in the emergency department after having been struck by a car and suffering a serious leg[...]

$20M Hospital Medical Malpractice Settlement For Communications Breakdowns Leading To Paralysis

June 22, 2016

A Washington hospital has reached a $20 million settlement with a man whose repeated concerns that he had fractured his back after suffering a fall from his bed went unheeded, leading to his paralysis. As part of the settlement, the hospital and the man agreed to work together to address communicati[...]

$4.58M Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Emergency Room Physician

June 15, 2016

In mid-May 2016, an Ohio medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff after fifteen days of trial, finding that the defendant emergency room physician negligently misdiagnosed a 33-year-old married nurse, who was the mother to three minor children, as suffering from a migr[...]

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