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FDA Seeks Injunction Against Two Stem Cell Clinics For Alleged Marketing And Safety Violations

May 28, 2018

The FDA filed a federal lawsuit on May 9, 2018 seeking a permanent injunction against two stem cell clinics to require that they cease marketing their stem cell products until, among other things, they obtain necessary FDA approvals and correct their alleged violations of current good manufacturing [...]

Federal Lawsuit Claims Idaho Fertility Doctor Used His Own Sperm To Impregnate His Patient

April 18, 2018

A 36-year-old Washington State woman filed a federal lawsuit in Idaho in March 2018 in which she claims that an Idaho fertility doctor mixed in his own sperm with the sperm of her mother’s husband during fertility treatments, which resulted in her birth. The woman recently discovered that her [...]

Federal Appellate Court Allows Some State Law Claims In Medical Device Lawsuit

April 8, 2018

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) addressed the issue of how courts should apply the federal express preemption provision to state law tort claims challenging the design and manufacture of a medical device comprised of multiple component[...]

Tennessee Nursing Home Agrees to Pay $500,000 To Resolve Claims Of Worthless Services

March 5, 2018

A Memphis, Tennessee nursing home has agreed to pay $500,000 to the United States and the State of Tennessee to resolve allegations of false claims to Medicare and Tenncare for services rendered to residents that were materially substandard, worthless, and were provided in violation of certain essen[...]

$3M Paxil Labeling Verdict For Suicide Death

May 9, 2017

On April 20, 2017, a Chicago jury returned its verdict in the amount of $3 million in favor of a widow whose 57-year-old husband was a corporate attorney who committed suicide while taking a generic version of Paxil, by stepping into the path of a train on July 15, 2010. The defendant was GlaxoSmith[...]

Xarelto Lawsuits Allege Undisclosed Risk of Internal Bleeding

April 27, 2017

More than 18,000 patients have filed lawsuits alleging that the blood-thinning medication Xarelto caused them to suffer internal bleeding, the risk of which they allege was not disclosed to them. Johnson & Johnson and Bayer jointly developed Xarelto, which was approved by the FDA in 2011 to be u[...]

Amputated Leg May Be Best Evidence Establishing VA Medical Negligence

January 23, 2017

A 46-year-old man’s amputated leg, which he had donated to a non-profit organization for canine search and rescue training a year-and-a-half earlier, was retrieved by the man’s VA medical malpractice lawyer in July 2016 and may be the best evidence that medical negligence at the VA Puget[...]

Wyoming Nursing Home Settles Claim By Resident Struck By Its Van

December 27, 2016

A troubled Wyoming nursing home with a history of deficiencies and personal injury and wrongful death claims made against it has reportedly settled the personal injury claim of one of its residents who was negligently struck by a van owned by the nursing home and operated by its employee, as the l[...]

Virginia Jail Medical Malpractice Case Filed For Medication Withdrawal Leading To Death

December 16, 2016

The family of a Virginia jail inmate who died while in custody filed a federal jail medical malpractice lawsuit on December 1, 2016 against numerous defendants for the death of the 26-year-old man who had informed the jail medical personnel that he was addicted to Xanax but the staff wrote down on t[...]

Pennsylvania Nursing Home Sued For Death Caused By Fire While Smoking

December 6, 2016

The wife of a 72-year-old nursing home resident who died as a result of becoming engulfed in flames while smoking a cigarette after his food shield made of paper and plastic caught fire at the defendant nursing home on February 17, 2015 has filed a federal nursing home negligence lawsuit that allege[...]

Deaf Wife Of Patient Files Lawsuit Against Maryland Hospital For Its Failure To Provide Her With Interpreter

November 21, 2016

On November 13, 2016, the deaf wife of a patient who was treated for cancer in a Maryland hospital filed a lawsuit against the hospital for its failure to provide her with a qualified sign language interpreter during her husband’s hospital treatments. The patient, who had no hearing impairment[...]

Federal Judge Dismisses Maryland Inmate’s Deliberate Indifference Medical Malpractice Claim

May 16, 2016

A federal judge in Maryland dismissed an inmate’s Maryland medical malpractice deliberate indifference claim that correctional officials violated his Eighth Amendment rights when they failed to properly assess and care for his medical needs while he was incarcerated in federal prison in Maryla[...]

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