Hospital Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 54 of 78

Illinois $4.7M Medical Malpractice Verdict Upheld On Appeal Based On Apparent Agency

February 8, 2016

By its decision filed on December 31, 2015, the Appellate Court of Illinois First Judicial Circuit Second District (“Appellate Court”) upheld the $4.7 million verdict against the defendant hospital despite the defendant hospital arguing that it could not be held liable for the alleged me[...]

Lack Of Medical Expert Doomed Maryland Medical Malpractice Plaintiffs

January 19, 2016

In its unreported decision filed on January 11, 2016, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) affirmed the trial court granting summary judgment to the Maryland medical malpractice defendants in a Maryland medical malpractice case shortly before the schedu[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Jury Sides With Hospital In Newborn’s Death Claim

January 9, 2016

On January 7, 2016, a West Virginia medical malpractice jury took one and a half hours after a three and a half day trial to find that a local West Virginia hospital was not medically negligent in the death of a newborn baby just a few days after his birth in 2012 due to undiagnosed Hypoplastic Le[...]

$1.57M Washington State Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis

January 4, 2016

On December 21, 2015, a Washington State medical malpractice jury awarded a 56-year-old former carpenter and his wife $1.57 million in their medical malpractice case against a local hospital that they claimed was negligent in failing to timely diagnose the husband’s serious medical complicatio[...]

New Jersey Psychiatric Hospital Sued For Abuse

December 26, 2015

The parents of a 17-year-old incapacitated woman who is an inpatient in a New Jersey state-run psychiatric hospital have filed a lawsuit in federal court against the psychiatric hospital and some of its employees, alleging that the civil rights of their daughter were violated by their numerous ac[...]

$22.18M Chicago Medical Malpractice Verdict

December 25, 2015

On December 4, 2015, a Chicago medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $22.18 million for her respiratory distress that led to respiratory arrest and a hypoxic brain injury. The medical malpractice defendant was the Chicago hospital where the alleged[...]

Cat Bite Leads To Michigan Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

December 23, 2015

A 41-year-old Michigan woman who was bitten by a cat and then received allegedly inadequate emergency medical care at a local hospital has filed a medical malpractice case against the Michigan hospital, and others, seeking compensatory damages in excess of $75,000. The Michigan medical malpractic[...]

New Hampshire ER Misdiagnosed Disabled Man’s Neck Fracture – Twice

December 19, 2015

The family of a severely disabled nonverbal New Hampshire man is demanding answers for why their severely disabled relative’s neck fracture was misdiagnosed by a local hospital’s ER, twice, leading to his unnecessary agonizing pain. The man was no stranger to the New Hampshire hospital [...]

Pennsylvania Hospital Sued For Medical Malpractice, Altered Medical Records

December 15, 2015

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit filed by the widow of a man who died as a result of alleged medical negligence that occurred in a Pennsylvania hospital alleges that the defendant hospital and its staff altered her husband’s medical records, citing the six sets o[...]

$36M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgical Mistake Leading To Paralysis And Death

December 3, 2015

On November 12, 2015, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $36 million in favor of a woman who suffered paralysis followed by death as a result of her surgeon tying off her aorta instead of her renal artery during kidney surgery, and then failed to discover the s[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Verdict Due To Judge’s Improper Communication With Jury

December 2, 2015

In its opinion filed on November 6, 2015, the Supreme Court of Alabama (“Alabama Supreme Court”) held that the trial judge should have granted the defendants’ motion for mistrial during jury deliberations in an Alabama medical malpractice trial because the trial judge had improperl[...]

$10.1M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Child’s Misdiagnosed Bacterial Meningitis

November 27, 2015

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a now 6-year-old boy and against defendant Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (“CHOP”) for the serious injuries the boy suffered when he was 11 months old allegedly due to CHOP’s failure to timely diag[...]

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