Hospital Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 74 of 78

$100 Million New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Brain Injury Due To Premature Birth

August 28, 2012

On August 24, 2012, a Staten Island, New York medical malpractice jury awarded more than $100 million in favor of a now-seventeen-year-old woman who has cerebral palsy due to a brain injury that the jury found was the result of the medical negligence in caring for her mother while she was pregn[...]

Maine Supreme Court Overturns Plaintiffs’ Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 27, 2012

On August 21, 2012, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (“Maine Supreme Court”) overturned a Maine medical malpractice jury’s verdict in the amount of $420,000 in favor of a man and his wife and against a local hospital for the injuries the man allegedly suffered as a result of medic[...]

California Hospital Chain Agrees To Pay $16.5 Million For Illegal Kickback Scheme

August 26, 2012

The FBI has announced that Los Angeles Doctor’s Hospital Inc., which is a subsidiary of Pacific Health Corporation, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud Medicare and Medi-Cal by paying illegal kickbacks to marketers who were paid to recruit homeless people and bring them to the [...]

Four Visits To Three ERs In Two Days Without Diagnosis Or Proper Treatment

August 21, 2012

On July 30, 2012, a woman and her husband filed a medical malpractice case in the Superior Court of California for Contra Costa County against various hospitals including two Kaiser Permanente hospitals, another hospital, and others for their alleged failures to timely diagnose and treat the wom[...]

New York Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Father’s Death

August 19, 2012

The son of a man who died as a result of alleged medical negligence that occurred in a local New York hospital filed a medical malpractice case in court on August 14, 2012 against the hospital, three of its doctors, and the town in which the hospital is located. The medical malpractice case was file[...]

Largest For-Profit U.S. Hospital Chain Responsible For Unnecessary Cardiac Procedures?

August 14, 2012

The largest for-profit hospital chain in the United States, HCA, has 163 medical facilities in the United States. HCA owns hospitals in about 20 states, including Florida, where the population of elderly has led its Florida hospitals to be responsible for about 20% of HCA’s revenues. HCA [...]

$7 Million Chicago Medical Malpractice Verdict For Asthma Death In ER

August 12, 2012

On Tuesday, July 31, 2012, a Cook County, Illinois medical malpractice jury awarded the medical malpractice plaintiff $7 million after a three-week trial, for a man who died in a local hospital emergency room after he had suffered an asthma attack at home. The Chicago truck driver was alone at hom[...]

New York Medical Malpractice $1.3 Million Settlement For Infant

August 10, 2012

A medical malpractice claim against a New York hospital involving a newborn who was allegedly injured during delivery was recently settled out-of-court for $1.3 million after the medical malpractice case was filed. The medical malpractice lawsuit alleged that negligent medical care during the deli[...]

$15 Million Colorado Medical Malpractice Verdict For Paralysis

August 6, 2012

Following a three-week trial that ended in late-July, 2012, a Colorado Springs, Colorado medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $15 million against a hospital and an emergency room physician for medical negligence that allegedly resulted in the paralysis of a 36-year-ol[...]

Montana Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death of 36-Year-Old

August 3, 2012

After a two-week trial during July, 2012, a Montana medical malpractice jury found that a local Butte, Montana hospital failed to timely diagnose the rare medical condition of a 36-year-old patient in 2006 that contributed to her death. The woman was suffering from TTP (thrombotic thrombocytopenic[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Jury Awards $21 Million For Botched Delivery

August 2, 2012

On July 31, 2012, a Maryland medical malpractice jury awarded a total of $21 million ($18 million for future medical expenses, $2 million for future lost wages, and $1 million in non-economic damages) to a now-9-year-old child and his parents after a two-week, hotly contested trial that focused on t[...]

About 80 New Mexico Medical Malpractice Claims Settled For More Than $33 Million

July 30, 2012

Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico, is a 65-year-old nonprofit hospital that entered into bankruptcy protection last summer as a result of numerous medical malpractice claims filed against it alleging medical negligence, battery, and fraud. The medical malpractice c[...]

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