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Vermont Mental Health Malpractice Lawsuit Follows Teen’s Suicide Death

March 23, 2015

On March 16, 2015, the mother of a teenage daughter who committed suicide while receiving mental health treatment in a residential facility in Vermont filed a mental health malpractice lawsuit against the Vermont mental health treatment facility, alleging that the defendant’s negligence le[...]

$1.2M Oklahoma Nursing Home Verdict For Abuse Of Resident Caught On Video

February 23, 2015

On February 13, 2015, a federal jury in Oklahoma found in favor of the plaintiff in a nursing home abuse case and awarded $1.2 million in compensatory damages for emotional distress and an additional $10,000 in punitive damages. The case involved the abuse of a 96-year-old nursing home resident who[...]

New Trial Motion Denied For $2M Vaginal Mesh Verdict Against Bard

February 5, 2015

On January 20, 2015, the judge who oversaw the first federal transvaginal mesh trial against C.R. Bard Inc. (“Bard”) that resulted in a $2 million jury verdict for the plaintiffs ($250,000 in compensatory damages and $1.75 million in punitive damages) in federal court in West Virgin[...]

Wyoming Nursing Home Negligence Claim Filed In Federal Court

January 4, 2015

On December 15, 2014, the daughter of a 77-year-old Wyoming nursing home resident who fell and suffered serious injuries after only one month in a nursing home filed a lawsuit in federal court in Wyoming on behalf of her mother’s estate against various corporate defendants, including the l[...]

California County Jail Subjected To Another Medical Malpractice/Wrongful Death Lawsuit

January 3, 2015

The Sutter County Jail in Yuba City, California was named in another medical malpractice/wrongful death lawsuit involving a prisoner, which was filed on December 24, 2014. The wrongful death lawsuit was filed on behalf of the parents and children of a 33-year-old prisoner who had been sentenced [...]

Settlement Announced For Many Stryker Defective Hip Replacement Claims

November 13, 2014

On November 3, 2014, Howmedica Osteonics Corp., a/k/a Stryker Orthopaedics (“Stryker”), entered into a settlement agreement that resolves federal claims filed in multi-district litigation venued in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota that covers 2,375 plaint[...]

Cruise Ship Medical Malpractice Claims

November 11, 2014

In a federal appellate case decided on November 10, 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (“Appellate Court”) declined to adopt the “Barbetta rule” that immunizes a shipowner from respondeat superior liability whenever a ship’s employees rende[...]

Was The FDA Too Slow To React To New Jersey Pharmaceutical Company Distributing Allegedly Contaminated Products?

October 18, 2014

The FDA announced that on October 2, 2014, a complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, seeking a permanent injunction to stop Pharmaceutical Innovations Inc., a New Jersey pharmaceutical that manufactures and distributes ultrasound, mammography, and electro[...]

$38M Settlement Reached With Large Nursing Home Chain Under False Claims Act

October 16, 2014

On October 10, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the large, national nursing home chain, Extendicare Health Services Inc. (“Extendicare”) and its subsidiary Progressive Step Corporation (“ProStep”), have agreed to pay $38 million to the United States and eig[...]

Official Review Finds Military Health Care Only “Average”

October 15, 2014

It was announced on October 1, 2014 that U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s 90-day review of the military health system found that it was comparable in access, quality and safety to care offered on average in the private sector. However, Secretary Hagel said “average” was not g[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Addresses Federal Preemption Of “Off-Label” Promotion Of Medical Devices

October 9, 2014

On October 6, 2014, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland, which is Maryland’s intermediate appellate court (“the Court”), addressed the extent to which federal law expressly or impliedly preempts state common-law and statutory claims for personal injuries that result from �[...]

$73M Transvaginal Mesh Verdict In Texas

September 14, 2014

After a two-week jury trial that concluded on September 8, 2014, the 42-year-old plaintiff in a lawsuit filed in Texas state court for her alleged injuries as a result of her transvaginal mesh implant that she claimed was defective won a jury verdict in her favor in the amount of $73 million agains[...]

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