Hospital Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 17 of 78

1 In 4 Patients Admitted To U.S. Hospitals Are Harmed

January 22, 2023

1 In 4 Patients Admitted To U.S. Hospitals Are Harmed: The results of a study entitled “The Safety of Inpatient Health Care” published on January 12, 2023 in The New England Journal of Medicine concluded: “Adverse events were identified in nearly one in four admissions, and approxi[...]

$308K Paid By Yale To Resolve Violations Of Controlled Substances Act Allegations

January 13, 2023

Yale Paid $308K after violating the Controlled Substances Act: The United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced on October 4, 2022 that Yale University, on behalf of Yale Medicine and the Yale Fertility Center, has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal govern[...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Affirms Hospital Not Liable For Negligent Acts Of Nonemployee Physicians

January 9, 2023

Hospital Not Liable For Negligent Acts Of Nonemployee Physicians: The Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act (GTLA) removes immunity from liability when an injury is caused by the negligent actions of governmental employees acting within the scope of their employment. Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-20-205[...]

$1.3 Million Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Carotid Artery Dissection

January 7, 2023

$1.3 Million Verdict For Undiagnosed Carotid Artery Dissection: On October 7, 2022, a Berks County Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury found that Reading Hospital was medically negligent in treating the plaintiff, Kathryn Dailey, when she arrived at the hospital in October 2016, complaining of sym[...]

New Hampshire Hospital Allegedly Shielded Money-Making Heart Surgeon Despite Horrible Medical Malpractice Record, Including Many Deaths

December 25, 2022

Hospital Allegedly Shielded Money-Making Heart Surgeon Despite Horrible Medical Malpractice Record: The Boston Globe reported in a two-part investigative series about a New Hampshire hospital that allegedly shielded a cardiac surgeon despite the surgeon having one of the worst, if not the worst, med[...]

New Study Finds Incorrect Diagnoses In U.S. Emergency Departments Harm 2.6 Million Patients Annually

December 16, 2022

A report issued by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality dated December 15, 2022 entitled “Diagnostic Errors in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review” found: About 5.7% of patients seen in the emergency department (“ED”) receive an incorrect diagnosis with ab[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Tele-Medicine Company

November 30, 2022

Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Tele-Medicine Company: After Donna Harvard suffered a stroke at home, she was treated in the emergency room of John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital (“Hospital”), where the attending physician sought a consult with a neurologist from a tele-medicine compan[...]

23-Year-Old Died At Yale-New Haven Hospital After Being Left Alone In The Emergency Room For Over 7 hours

November 16, 2022

23-Year-Old Dead After Being Left Alone In The Emergency Room: A recently filed Connecticut medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of a 23-year-old man who was left alone and not checked on by medical staff during his seven hour stay in the emergency department of Yale-New Ha[...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants In tPA Stroke Case

November 15, 2022

Court Reverses Summary Judgment In tPA Stroke Case: In its Decision & Order dated August 17, 2022, the New York Appellate Division, Second Department held: “the plaintiffs raised triable issues of fact as to whether Nandakumar departed from the accepted standard of care in his neurological[...]

Florida Appellate Court Holds Hospital May Be Held Liable For Alleged Negligence Of Independent Emergency Room Physicians

November 3, 2022

Hospital Liable For Negligence Of Independent Physicians: After Latisha Gradia went into cardiac arrest at her home in 2021, she was transported by ambulance and arrived comatose to Santa Rosa Medical Center (SRMC). After several hours in the emergency department at SRMC, Gradia’s treating physici[...]

Tennessee Appellate Court Holds Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Should Have Been Allowed To Substitute New Expert After Named Expert Refused To Testify

November 1, 2022

Plaintiff Allowed To Substitute Expert After Named Expert Refused To Testify: The Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Nashville (“Tennessee Appellate Court”) stated in its opinion filed on August 10, 2022, “the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to allow the plaintiff to se[...]

350 Florida Lawsuits Allege Orthopedic Surgeon With Progressive Neurological Disorder Harmed Patients

October 21, 2022

350 Florida Lawsuits Allege Orthopedic Surgeon Harmed Patients: Lawsuits filed in Florida allege that patients of orthopedic surgeon Richard David Heekin, M.D., who specialized in hip and knee replacement surgeries, noticed between 2016 and 2020 that Heekin was slurring his words and he was having d[...]

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