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$6.5M Maryland Medical Malpractice Default Judgment For Botched Abortion Leading To Disabled Baby

August 12, 2016

On August 5, 2016, a federal judge in Maryland entered a default judgment in the amount of $6.5 million against the defendant OB and his women’s health clinic after the defendants failed to respond to the plaintiff’s amended complaint. The plaintiff had alleged in her federal Maryland me[...]

Baltimore Medical Malpractice Claim For Failed Sterilization Procedure

July 20, 2016

A married woman in Baltimore who had previously given birth to three healthy children discussed and agreed with her OB after the birth of her last child in 2015 that the OB would perform a sterilization procedure on her so that she would not get pregnant again. The woman’s decision was based o[...]

Colorado Late-Term Abortion Doctor Sued For Medical Negligence

May 4, 2016

A well-known late-term abortion doctor who practices in Boulder, Colorado has been sued by his former patient and her husband who allege that the defendant performed her late-term abortion improperly, leaving a piece of the skull of her aborted fetus inside of her that required surgery and left her [...]

$1.52M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Bowel Injury During Hysterectomy

March 11, 2016

On March 2, 2016, a New York medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the 51-year-old plaintiff who suffered a bowel injury during her hysterectomy procedure in 2011 that was not discovered or treated by the defendant surgeon at the time of the surgery. As a result, the woman develo[...]

Wrongful Life Lawsuit Filed In California

December 21, 2015

On December 3, 2015, a husband and wife filed a wrongful life lawsuit on their own behalf and on behalf of their disabled child in the Los Angeles Superior Court regarding their son, Justin James Sanchez, who was born on September 6, 2014 and later tested positive for cystic fibrosis. The plaintiff[...]

Colorado Abortion Doctor Sued For Causing Woman’s Sterility

December 18, 2015

A federal lawsuit was recently filed in Colorado against an abortion doctor and his abortion clinic for the alleged failure to remove all of the fetal tissue during an abortion, leading to the female plaintiff suffering sterility. The plaintiffs (husband and wife) also allege that the defendants f[...]

$397K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Child Born After Tubal Ligation

November 26, 2015

A Maryland couple filed a medical malpractice case in Maryland against an obstetrician-gynecologist who had performed an elective bilateral tubal ligation on the wife after the plaintiffs expressed to the defendant that they could not afford to have a fourth child. Months after the defendant phys[...]

Connecticut Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death Of Baby Due To Negligent IUD Removal

November 25, 2015

A Connecticut medical malpractice lawsuit filed against a Connecticut doctor was recently settled for an undisclosed sum just before the Connecticut medical malpractice trial was scheduled to commence. At issue was whether the doctor could be held responsible for the death of a 22-week-old fetus wh[...]

Washington State OB/GYN Summarily Suspended

August 8, 2015

The State of Washington Department of Health Medical Quality Assurance Commission (“Commission”) issued an Ex Parte Order of Summary Suspension on July 28, 2015 against an OB/GYN who was licensed to practice medicine in Washington State, in response to the Department of Health Medical[...]

Misdiagnosis Of Ectopic Pregnancy

June 30, 2015

An ectopic pregnancy is a life-threatening condition in which the pregnancy occurs outside of the uterus (the womb). In a normal pregnancy, the fertilized egg travels through the fallopian tube to the uterus. However, if the movement of the egg is slowed or blocked through the fallopian tube, an e[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Allows Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Claim For Nonviable Fetus

June 22, 2015

In its decision filed on June 16, 2015, the Michigan Court of Appeals (“Appellate Court”) overturned the trial court’s granting summary judgment in favor of the defendants with regard to the plaintiff’s wrongful death claim on behalf of her nonviable fetus that alleged that[...]

7 Rhode Island OB Practices Settle Unapproved IUD Claims

March 22, 2015

Seven Rhode Island obstetrical practices have agreed to settle claims against them alleging that they implanted unapproved versions of the Mirena and ParaGard intrauterine devices (“IUDs”) in patients and then sought the higher reimbursement for FDA-approved IUDs. An IUD is a small T-s[...]

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