9 Baby Deaths Following Open Heart Surgery At Florida Hospital
June 9, 2015
On June 2, 2015, the ninth baby died after having heart surgery at a Florida hospital that opened its pediatric open heart surgery program in December 2011. CNN has reported that the death rate for babies after open heart surgery at the Florida hospital between 2011 and 2013 was 12.5%, which is thr[...]
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Puerto Rico Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Birth Trauma
May 27, 2015
The parents of a baby who suffered trauma during her birth and later died, allegedly as a result of medical negligence that occurred during labor, delivery, and shortly after her birth, have filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Puerto Rico hospital where the birth took place on July 4[...]
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$23M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict For Birth Injury
May 20, 2015
On April 24, 2015, after a three-week trial, a Florida medical malpractice jury in Charlotte County awarded the plaintiff $23 million for the severe and permanent brain injury suffered by her newborn baby girl, who was born extremely premature. The child suffered cerebral palsy as a result of her b[...]
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Connecticut Birth Injury Claim Settled For $3M
May 14, 2015
Late last month a 26-year-old woman and the State of Connecticut reached a medical malpractice settlement with regard to the alleged medical negligence that occurred during the labor and delivery of the plaintiff’s child in a Connecticut-operated hospital that led to the baby suffering a stro[...]
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Emergency Medicine Medical Malpractice Claims Statistics
April 19, 2015
The results of a recent study of medical malpractice claims involving emergency medicine that were closed between 2007 and 2013 by the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurance company found that issues related to diagnosis are the main reason that emergency room physicians are sued f[...]
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