Hospital Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 60 of 78

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Newborn’s Brachial Plexus Injury

January 18, 2015

A woman was 22 years old when she gave birth to her second child, a son, in June 2012 (her first baby was a girl, who was born healthy following a normal vaginal delivery). The woman’s second child suffered serious and permanent birth injuries as a result of alleged medical negligence dur[...]

Ohio Judge Awards $28.7M In Medical Malpractice Birth Injury Case Involving Cerebral Palsy

January 14, 2015

On December 26, 2014, a judge in Ohio entered judgment in the amount of $28,745,991 in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiffs in a case in which it was alleged that the defendants’ medical negligence led to the plaintiffs’ child being born with cerebral palsy due to oxygen deprivat[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed After Limbs Amputated

January 6, 2015

On December 19, 2014, a 59-year-old woman filed a Baltimore medical malpractice lawsuit against The Johns Hopkins Health System (“Hopkins”) and others for allegedly negligent medical care that she received at a Hopkins-run hospital in a suburban county just west of Baltimore City that[...]

Military Hospital Whistleblowers Face Unique Risks

December 29, 2014

In an article published in The New York Times on December 20, 2014, the professional and financial risks that military hospital whistleblowers are exposed to were highlighted and discussed. While whistleblowers at civilian hospitals in the United States face many of the same risks to their careers [...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Brain Damage Due To Dislodged Breathing Tube

December 28, 2014

Earlier this month, the husband of a 29-year-old woman who is the mother of two young children filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in Texas against a hospital and its medical staff whose alleged medical negligence resulted in the woman now being in a permanent near-comatose state that requires he[...]

Washington Supreme Court Reinstates Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Verdict

December 27, 2014

The Supreme Court of the State of Washington (“Washington Supreme Court”) issued its written opinion on December 11, 2014 in a case in which it reinstated a Washington medical malpractice verdict in favor of the plaintiff that had been vacated by the trial judge and affirmed by the low[...]

North Carolina Hospital Loses Appeal Seeking To Hide Incident Report

December 26, 2014

In its opinion filed on December 19, 2014, the Supreme Court of North Carolina (“Supreme Court”) held that the defendant hospital was not shielded from providing the medical malpractice plaintiff with the results of its internal investigation into an operating room fire that seriously i[...]

Defendant Physician’s Medical License Problems Held Irrelevant In Kentucky Medical Malpractice Case

December 25, 2014

In its decision issued on December 19, 2014, the Supreme Court of Kentucky (“Kentucky Supreme Court”) held that the defendant physician’s medical license problems were not admissible in the case it was deciding because evidence of collateral misconduct to show a person’s pro[...]

Louisiana Medical Malpractice Case Filed For Woman’s Death In ER

December 24, 2014

In October 2014, the family of a woman who died after being mistreated for a heart attack in a hospital emergency room in Louisiana filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the physician who had treated the woman in the emergency room and the hospital where the alleged medical negligence took p[...]

Florida Appellate Court: Contaminated Drug Claim Is Not Medical Malpractice Claim

December 19, 2014

On December 12, 2014, the District Court of Appeal for the State of Florida Fifth Circuit (“Appellate Court”) issued an opinion in which it stated that the mere fact that a wrongful act occurs in a medical setting does not automatically transform the contested action into one that sounds[...]

New California Supreme Court Case Regarding Medical Malpractice Damages

December 17, 2014

In a case decided on December 15, 2014, the Supreme Court of California held that the $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages imposed by Section 3333.2, subdivision (b) of MICRA (“Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975”) applies only to judgments awarding noneconomic damages ([...]

California Hospital Sued For Medical Negligence Leading To Amputations

December 15, 2014

On December 11, 2014, a California woman filed a medical malpractice case against a California hospital, alleging that medical negligence required her to have amputations over a period of years following the successful bone marrow transplant she had in 2004. According to her California medical ma[...]

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