Hospital Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 57 of 78

$17M Nebraska Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 9, 2015

Last week, a federal medical malpractice jury in Nebraska returned its verdict in the amount of $17 million for the serious and permanent injuries suffered by a baby during her birth in Nebraska on November 2, 2012. The now 2-year-old girl suffered a catastrophic brain injury during labor and deli[...]

Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Death Due To Wrong Blood Type Transfusion

August 4, 2015

A medical malpractice/wrongful death/survival action lawsuit was filed in the Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois on July 23, 2015, alleging that the defendant hospital’s medical staff transfused a patient with the wrong type of blood that led to the woman’s death. The administrator[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Birth-Related Injuries Leading To Death

August 3, 2015

On July 27, 2015, a Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit was filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against a Baltimore hospital, alleging that the medical negligence of the hospital’s emergency room staff led to the premature birth of a baby who needed extensive care in a neonatal i[...]

Did Maryland Hospital Use Counterfeit Spinal Hardware?

July 22, 2015

A Maryland hospital has reportedly been sued by health insurers that allege that some spinal fusion patients who had their surgeries at the hospital may have been implanted with counterfeit spinal hardware. A spine surgeon who operated at the Maryland hospital has also been named in lawsuits, whic[...]

Florida Appellate Court Limits Medical Malpractice Attorneys Fee To $100,000

July 20, 2015

In its decision dated July 15, 2015, the District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida Fourth District (“Appellate Court”) limited to $100,000 the medical malpractice attorneys fee and costs that the plaintiffs’ Florida medical malpractice lawyers could receive for their highly [...]

Alabama Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict In Birth Injury Case

July 17, 2015

On June 19, 2015, after a two-week trial and three and a half hours of deliberations, an Alabama medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendants. The case involved the birth injuries suffered by a now 11-year-old boy who sustained a brain injury due to alleged medical neglig[...]

$270K California Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Following Fall From Hospital Bed

July 10, 2015

The family of a 90-year-old woman who had fallen from her hospital bed while an inpatient in a California hospital in 2012 and suffered a fractured skull, bleeding in her brain, and a mid-shaft displaced and comminuted fracture of her femur as a result, filed a California medical malpractice wro[...]

$4.4M Maryland Verdict For ICU Doctor Who Fractured His Wrist Due To Fall At Work

July 5, 2015

A Maryland critical care physician who worked in a hospital intensive care unit received a verdict in the amount of nearly $4.4 million on June 24, 2015, after a six-day trial, that includes $560,956 for past lost wages, $3,744,820 for future lost wages, $39,410.92 for past medical expenses, and [...]

Maryland Appellate Decision Regarding Informed Consent In Medical Malpractice Cases

June 28, 2015

In an unreported case from the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”) filed on June 22, 2015, one of the issues the Appellate Court had to decide was whether the trial court abused its discretion by admitting evidence of informed consent in a medical malpractice case[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Teenager’s Required Heart Transplant

June 16, 2015

On May 8, 2015, a Maryland medical malpractice lawsuit was filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City on behalf of a now 16-year-old former student athlete who was required to have a heart transplant, and may need further heart transplants in the future, allegedly due to the negligent failure of [...]

$600K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Untreated Surgical Complications

June 13, 2015

When the 72-year-old wife, mother of six, and grandmother went in for surgery on February 23, 2010 for a subtotal colectomy with an ileorectal anastomosis to treat her five-year history of diverticulosis, neither she nor her family could have imagined that she would die sixteen days later from surg[...]

Connecticut Physician Denied Maine Medical License Due To Alleged Sexual Misconduct With Patients

June 12, 2015

A Connecticut physician who had applied for a permanent Maine medical license has been denied his request due to four claims of alleged sexual misconduct with former patients in Maine who have filed lawsuits against the physician. The physician, who is a specialist in physical medicine and rehabil[...]

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