Hospital Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 67 of 78

Hospital Rape Case Settled

October 3, 2013

A woman who was allegedly raped by a male certified nursing assistant in a Las Vegas, Nevada hospital in 2008 reached a confidential settlement of her lawsuit against the hospital on September 20, 2013 (the case was scheduled to begin trial on September 23, 2013). The woman was one of six women who[...]

Oregon Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Breech Birth Gone Bad

September 29, 2013

When a Washington State woman read about a special program being offered by Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU) Hospital to woman desiring a vaginal delivery for breech babies (babies in the womb who present buttocks or feet closest to the cervix) despite the fact that she had already sc[...]

$2.85M South Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Paraplegia

September 23, 2013

On September 13, 2013, a Horry County, South Carolina medical malpractice jury awarded a hospital emergency room patient and his wife $2.85 million ($2,300,000 to the man and $550,000 to his wife) for the paraplegia the man suffered as a result of medical malpractice at the hospital. The manR[...]

New Estimate: Over 400,000 May Die Each Year In U.S. Due To Hospital Mistakes

September 21, 2013

In an article appearing in Scientific American entitled, “How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals?,” the frequently quoted figure of up to 98,000 annual deaths in U.S. hospitals due to medical negligence has been updated to at least 210,000 and may be more than 400,000 prema[...]

Maryland Hospital Immune For Its Failure To Involuntarily Admit Patient

September 11, 2013

On September 5, 2013, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Special Appeals”) held that a Maryland hospital was entitled to statutory immunity from any liability when it decided not to involuntarily admit an individual so long as it acted in good faith and with reason[...]

Hospital That Threw Out Healthy Donor Kidney Denies It Was Negligent

September 2, 2013

The University of Toledo Medical Center (“UTMC”) in Ohio acknowledges that its nurse threw out as trash the healthy donor kidney that a brother had lovingly donated to his ailing sister but contests that it was negligent in doing so. UTMC is requesting that the medical malpractice law[...]

Hospital Pharmacist Malpractice

August 29, 2013

Hospital pharmacists are not immune to medical malpractice claims. Such claims may involve the wrong medication being dispensed (especially if the drugs have similar sounding names), the wrong dosage of the drug (such as filling a prescription for 10 ml of a drug when the prescribed dosage was 0.[...]

$15M Indiana Medical Malpractice Verdict For Child Born With Cerebral Palsy

August 28, 2013

On August 23, 2013, an Indiana medical malpractice jury awarded $15 million to the family of a newborn who suffered severe brain damage and developed cerebral palsy allegedly as a result of medical negligence that occurred at a local hospital. The Indiana cap on damages in medical malpractice case[...]

Alabama Supreme Court: Expert Testimony Not Needed In Medical Malpractice Case Where Layperson Could Understand

August 26, 2013

In a case decided by the Supreme Court of Alabama (“Alabama Supreme Court”) on August 2, 2013, the Alabama Supreme Court stated the general rule that expert testimony is normally required in a medical malpractice case but the Court further stated, “A narrow exception to this rule[...]

Sperm Bank Meltdown Leads To 40 Lawsuits

August 24, 2013

On August 20, 2013, forty (40) lawsuits were filed in the Cook County Circuit Court (Illinois) against Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation on behalf of men whose frozen sperm specimens that were stored by the defendants so that they could possibly become bi[...]

$958K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Hospital’s Wrongful Palliative Care

August 15, 2013

On August 7, 2013, a Maryland medical malpractice jury in a very conservative jurisdiction returned a $958,000 verdict in favor of the family of a woman who was given palliative care in a hospital instead of continuing medical treatment for her severe leg ulcers. The 62-year-old woman died a few day[...]

New York State-Operated Hospital Killed Patient With Impunity

July 15, 2013

On March 7, 2013, a 41-year-old single mother of a mentally disabled teenage daughter died after her over two-year battle with lung cancer that was treatable and curable had a New York state-operated hospital not committed medical malpractice in 2010. When the woman arrived at the emergency roo[...]

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