Hospital Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 53 of 78

New York City Hospitals Settled 221 Medical Malpractice Cases For $124M In 2015

March 30, 2016

New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (“HHC”) reportedly settled 221 medical malpractice lawsuits in 2015 for a total of $124 million in payouts, which was down from $133 million that was paid out in 2014 to settle medical malpractice claims. However, the total number of new med[...]

Colorado Hospital Sued For Former Surgical Technician’s Substitution Of Syringes

March 22, 2016

Imagine receiving a letter from the hospital where you had surgery, advising you to have yourself immediately tested for HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C because you may have been exposed to a bloodborne pathogen during your surgery due to one of the hospital’s surgical technicians dive[...]

Study Of Medical Malpractice Closed Claims For Hospitalists

March 14, 2016

The Doctors Company, which is the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer in the United States, recently released its analysis of 464 medical malpractice claims against hospitalists that the insurer closed from 2007 through 2014. The study included all claims and medical malpractice laws[...]

Army Hospital Medical Malpractice Claim Ends In $9M Settlement

March 6, 2016

It has been reported that Tripler Army Medical Center has agreed to pay $9 million to settle a medical malpractice birth injury case that alleged that the medical negligence of a doctor-in-training at the army hospital caused a newborn to suffer catastrophic neurological injuries that occurred dur[...]

$30M Chicago Medical Malpractice Settlement For Child Left Brain Damaged After 24 Experimental Surgeries

March 5, 2016

The Chicago medical malpractice attorneys for a young child who had 24 experimental surgeries that led to his severe and permanent brain injury were able to recently settle the medical malpractice claims against the defendant surgeon and defendant hospital, for $30 million. The child was born on No[...]

$2.39M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Post-Surgery Fall

February 25, 2016

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury recently returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $2.39 million after a seven-day trial and three hours of jury deliberations. The twelve-person Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded the woman $800,000 for her past non-economic l[...]

$5.1M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Hepatitis C Acquired During Routine Colonoscopy

February 20, 2016

A New York medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $5.1 million in favor of the plaintiff, who alleged in her New York medical malpractice lawsuit that the defendant physicians’ negligence caused her to become infected with Hepatitis C during a routine colonoscopy that t[...]

Failure To Timely Object To Juror Mistake Dooms Maryland Medical Malpractice Appeal

February 19, 2016

In a case decided by the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”) on February 4, 2016 in an unreported opinion, the Maryland medical malpractice plaintiff’s appeal was unsuccessful because under Maryland law, it was incumbent upon the plaintiff to bring to the trial[...]

$10M Alabama Medical Malpractice Verdict For Missed Meningitis Diagnosis In Infant

February 17, 2016

On February 12, 2016, an Alabama medical malpractice jury awarded a seriously injured child and his family $10 million for the missed diagnosis of bacterial meningitis when the child was three months old, resulting in the child’s permanent brain injury. As a result of the alleged negligent fai[...]

Surgery Performed On Wrong Baby

February 11, 2016

A Tennessee couple are living through a nightmare situation after having given birth to a healthy baby boy in a Tennessee hospital. While in the hospital nursery, shortly after birth, the baby was mistaken for another newborn in the hospital nursery and was removed from the nursery for a frenoto[...]

Man Who Contracted Mold Infection In Pennsylvania Hospital Has Died

February 10, 2016

A 70-year-old transplant patient who had contracted a fungal infection from mold while he was a patient in a Pennsylvania hospital has died. The man, who was the fourth patient to have become infected with mold last year while a patient at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (“UPMCR[...]

Florida Woman Died After Hospital Called Police To Remove Her From The ER

February 9, 2016

On December 21, 2015, a 57-year-old Florida woman went to the local hospital emergency room, complaining of abdominal pain. When the hospital staff attempted to discharge her from the ER, she complained that she was having trouble breathing. Instead of evaluating the woman’s breathing compla[...]

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