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NC Medical Malpractice Lawsuit – IUD Inserted During Surgery Without Consent

October 26, 2017

A North Carolina woman filed a North Carolina medical malpractice lawsuit on September 21, 2017 against Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and others, alleging that during her surgery to remove uterine fibroids on October 5, 2007, when she was 29 years old, the defendant surgeon implanted a Gore-Tex[...]

New York Appellate Court Says Swallowed Camera Capsule Not A Foreign Object That Tolls Statute Of Limitations

June 30, 2017

In its decision filed on June 7, 2017, the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held that a camera capsule swallowed by the plaintiff in order to diagnostically visualize the condition of the plaintiff’s inte[...]

Florida Supreme Court Discusses Foreign Body Presumption In Medical Malpractice Cases

January 28, 2017

In its opinion filed on January 26, 2017, the Supreme Court of Florida (“Florida Supreme Court”) held that the foreign-body presumption of negligence set forth in section 766.102(3)(b) is mandatory when a foreign body is found inside the patient’s body, regardless of whether direct ev[...]

Surgical Forceps Left In Patient For 18 Years

January 14, 2017

When a 54-year-old Vietnamese man had a stomach ache and sought medical care, little did he suspect that an x-ray would find that the cause of his problems was surgical forceps that were apparently left in his abdomen near his colon during emergency surgery that he had eighteen years earlier followi[...]

Surgical Probe Left In Woman Following Gynecological Surgery

October 11, 2016

A California woman and her California medical malpractice attorney are investigating whether to file a medical malpractice claim against a surgeon who allegedly left a surgical probe in the woman following gynecological surgery. They are also considering a medical malpractice claim against the [...]

$507K Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Needle Left In Patient During Trigger Point Injection

September 17, 2016

A Missouri medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $507,000 after a four-day trial. The defendants were a physician and her medical practice that operated a pain management clinic where the 62-year-old plaintiff sought pain management treatment due to[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Adopts Apparent Agency Doctrine In Medical Malpractice Case

June 16, 2016

In its opinion published on June 14, 2016, the Connecticut Supreme Court, in a four-to-three decision, adopted and applied the apparent agency doctrine in a Connecticut medical malpractice case. At issue was whether the defendant surgeon, who was not an employee of the defendant hospital where the[...]

Oklahoma Supreme Court Rules Informed Consent Doctrine Applies To Nonsurgical/Noninvasive Medical Treatment

May 7, 2016

In the case it was deciding, the plaintiff had swallowed a small nail on June 1, 2009 and went to a hospital’s emergency room where the defendant ER physician examined her and ordered an X-ray that showed a foreign body in her stomach, just below her diaphragm. The plaintiff was discharged wi[...]

“Retained Surgical Items” Guideline Updated

January 6, 2016

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (“AORN”), which represents the interests of more than 160,000 perioperative nurses by providing nursing education, standards, and clinical practice resources, recently updated its guideline regarding so-called retained surgical items (&[...]

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