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Kentucky Supreme Court Orders Production Of Medical Malpractice Incident Report

August 25, 2014

The Supreme Court of Kentucky (“Kentucky Supreme Court”) rendered its decision on August 21, 2014 in a case where the defendant hospital claimed a federal confidentiality privilege to refuse to provide the medical malpractice plaintiff with a copy of the incident report written by a surg[...]

Kentucky Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Claims Negligent ER Care, Misleading Advertising

August 23, 2014

A Kentucky man has filed a medical malpractice case against a Kentucky hospital, alleging that the care he received in its emergency department by a nurse practitioner was negligent, causing him serious injuries, and further alleging that the hospital violated the Kentucky Consumer Protection Act, [...]

Kentucky Medical Malpractice Claim Against Plastic Surgeon For 5 Left-Behind Sponges

July 29, 2014

A medical malpractice case was filed on June 23, 2014 against a Kentucky plastic surgeon and other health care providers by a woman who claimed that her plastic surgeon unintentionally left five sponges in her thigh following surgery on July 8, 2013. The woman had injured her left thigh and went t[...]

$10.6M Kentucky Verdict In First Of Five Pending Bariatric Medical Malpractice Cases

April 4, 2014

On March 25, 2014, after more than a month of trial, a Kentucky medical malpractice jury rendered its verdict in the amount of $10,658,265 against a bariatric surgeon and the Kentucky hospital where he had performed bariatric surgeries. The jury determined that the bariatric surgeon was 40% at fa[...]

Kentucky Supreme Court Rules Medical Malpractice Defendant’s License Status Inadmissible

March 26, 2014

A Kentucky woman alleged that a radiologist misread three CT scans of her lungs and failed to identify and report lesions, one in either lung, that ultimately resulted in the delay of her lung cancer diagnosis. The woman’s experts testified at trial that the lesions were identifiable as [...]

Kentucky Heart Hospital Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Filed

March 11, 2014

On March 4, 2014, two Kentucky medical malpractice lawsuits were filed on behalf of more than 500 plaintiffs against Kentucky’s King’s Daughters Medical Center (“KDMC”), a recently retired heart surgeon for whom the hospital’s heart institute was named, and other defendant[...]

Kentucky Hospital Settles Unnecessary Stent Claims

February 16, 2014

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky announced on January 28, 2014 that a Kentucky hospital has agreed to pay the United States $16.5 million to resolve civil claims that it submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare and to Kentucky Medicaid programs for medically unn[...]

Kentucky Lawmakers Looking To Pass Unnecessary Medical Malpractice Laws

January 30, 2014

Some Kentucky lawmakers, with the backing, support, and legislative push of a vocal and powerful coalition of financially-interested health care groups, are setting their sights on pushing forward with their agenda of imposing unnecessary medical malpractice “reforms” that will benefit[...]

Kentucky Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Claims Misdiagnosis Of HIV

September 5, 2013

Imagine being told that you are HIV-positive and then living with the stigma of HIV and taking the HIV drug cocktail known as HAART (“highly active antiretroviral therapy”) in order to prolong your life before being told eight years later that you had been misdiagnosed as having�[...]

Kentucky Hospital Agrees To Pay $2,833,408.60 To Settle False Claims Allegations

August 22, 2013

On July 1, 2013, the United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky and the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that University Medical Center (University of Louisville Hospital) has voluntarily entered into a settlement agreement w[...]

Kentucky Children’s Hospital Continues To Refuse To Provide Data On Pediatric Heart Surgery Deaths

August 6, 2013

What’s going on with the Kentucky Children’s Hospital? It continues to refuse to provide data regarding pediatric heart surgery deaths despite the March 27, 2013 Open Records Decision of the Kentucky Attorney General that found that the University of Kentucky violated the Open Records [...]

Kentucky Former Cardiologist To Be Sentenced In Stent Fraud Scheme

June 17, 2013

On June 4, 2013, a former cardiologist in Kentucky pleaded guilty to health care fraud for submitting a claim for an unnecessary cardiac stent procedure that was billed to Medicaid. The 51-year-old cardiologist admitted that he lied about the severity of his patient’s medical condition in ord[...]

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