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$3.27M Transvaginal Mesh Verdict

September 12, 2014

On September 5, 2014, after a two-week trial in federal court in West Virginia, a jury awarded $3.27 million to the plaintiff for her alleged injuries resulting from the transvaginal mesh that had been implanted in her to treat her urinary incontinence. The plaintiff alleged that she had to undergo[...]

$11.6M Settement For Pennsylvania Woman Paralyzed After Receiving Flu Shot

July 2, 2014

A Pennsylvania woman will receive $11.6 million in settlement of her claim that a flu shot she received in 2010 led to her paralysis. Her work required that she have the flu shot — one week after receiving the flu shot, she started having flu-like symptoms. She began having pain and weakness i[...]

Pittsburgh VA Hospital Settles Legionnaires’ Disease Medical Malpractice Death Case

July 1, 2014

On June 3, 2014, a federal judge approved the settlement of a medical malpractice/wrongful death claim filed by the survivors of a man who contracted Legionnaires’ disease while a patient at the Pittsburgh VA hospital. The 83-year-old Navy veteran was being treated for a urinary tract infectio[...]

Large Hospitalist Company Charged With Medicare False Billings Scheme

June 22, 2014

The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced on June 17, 2014 that it is intervening in a federal whistleblower lawsuit (qui tam lawsuit) alleging that a large California-based hospitalist company that employs 2,500 hospitalists (physicians who work only in hospitals and other long-term care facilitie[...]

Testosterone Replacement Drug Cases Consolidated

June 12, 2014

On June 6, 2014, the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“Panel”) decided to consolidate in the federal court in Chicago about 45 federal testosterone replacement drug cases pending throughout the United States against Abbott Laboratories (“Abbott”) and [...]

VA Health Care Scandal: What Other Issues Plague The VA?

June 4, 2014

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has come under recent but prolonged fire for the manner in which the VA handles the scheduling of veterans’ medical appointments and how the VA falsely reported the amount of time it took for veterans to receive medical services through the VA healt[...]

Maine Psychiatric Hospital Sued By Pregnant Worker Stabbed By Patient

May 24, 2014

A 27-year-old female Maine mental health worker filed a federal lawsuit on May 19, 2014 for the injuries she suffered on March 16, 2013 when she was repeatedly stabbed by a patient who was known to the facility to be violent, alleging that her employer failed to protect her. The plaintiff was 18 wee[...]

Lawyers Stand Ready To Help VA Medical Malpractice Victims

May 23, 2014

We at medicalmalpracticelawyers.com have made extensive efforts in light of the recent scandals involving VA medical facilities to find lawyers in all U.S. states who stand ready to assist veterans and their dependents who have been injured (or worse) as a result of VA medical malpractice. Just two [...]

How To Fix The VA Health Care System Scandals

May 20, 2014

Everyone in the United States is outraged and disgusted by recent allegations that the VA Health Care system has been surreptitiously falsifying the statistics regarding the time it takes for our veterans to obtain medical appointments and to receive necessary medical care at VA medical facilities i[...]

Does This South Dakota Doctor Have A Financial Conflict Of Interest?

May 15, 2014

A South Dakota doctor is the chairwoman of the South Dakota Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners (“Board”), which adjudicates complaints against doctors (and other health care providers) in South Dakota. The Board has the authority to revoke or suspend a doctor’s medical lice[...]

Medicare False Claims Whistleblower To Receive $15M

May 1, 2014

An Alabama nurse will receive $15 million as her share of the settlement proceeds from a False Claims Act whistleblower lawsuit she filed against her former employer, a Louisiana-based home healthcare company that operates in 37 U.S. states. Her former employer has agreed to pay $150 million to [...]

For Second Time In Six Months, Mississippi Federal Judge Criticizes Cap On Damages

February 15, 2014

In the December 20, 2013 written opinion issued in a Mississippi medical malpractice case filed under the Federal Torts Claims Act, a Mississippi federal judge has once again criticized Mississippi’s $500,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases, quoting his written opini[...]

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