Kentucky $7.25 Million Jury Verdict For Failed Cochlear Implant
April 20, 2013
On April 16, 2013, a federal jury in Kentucky returned a $7.25 million verdict in favor of a little girl whose cochlear implant (a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing) failed due to moisture leakage t[...]
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California Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Turns Criminal
March 19, 2012
A 77-year-old Alzheimer’s patient, who had been married to her 81-year-old husband for 60 years, was admitted into a California nursing home for care so that she could recover from pneumonia. At the time of her admission to the nursing home, it was known that the woman was prone to chronic[...]
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Kentucky Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgeon’s Broken Legs
February 19, 2012
A retired surgeon who was in his mid-80s was being cared for by a nursing assistant who was supposed to use a lifting device to transfer the man from a chair to his bed but failed to do so. As a result of the nursing assistant’s failure to use the proper procedure for the man’s transfer[...]
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Kentucky Medical Malpractice Claim For Inmate’s Death
February 3, 2012
On January 31, 2012, the mother of a Kentucky inmate filed a wrongful death medical malpractice claim arising out of the death of her 26-year-old incarcerated son due to alleged failure to provide necessary medical care including the failure to provide him with his daily medicine for a congenital[...]
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U.S. Government Alleges Kentucky Nursing Home Committed Fraud
January 17, 2012
In a complaint filed by the U.S. government against a Kentucky nursing home chain and its owners, it is alleged that the Kentucky nursing home fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid $16 million for worthless services and care that was so grossly deficient and abusive that it caused “egregio[...]
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