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Illinois Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed After Botched Hernia Repair

July 21, 2015

An Illinois medical malpractice lawsuit was recently filed by the wife of a man who died after having emergency exploratory surgery following hernia repair surgery. The wife’s medical malpractice lawsuit claims that the defendants negligently failed to diagnose and treat her husband’s b[...]

Baltimore Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Plastic Left In Patient’s Abdomen Following Unnecessary Surgery

June 23, 2015

A woman filed a Baltimore medical malpractice lawsuit on June 12, 2015 in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City alleging that the defendant surgeon who performed robotic-assisted surgery on her to remove her right ovary and fallopian tube, which she alleged was unnecessary surgery because she had S[...]

$1.57M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Perforated Bowel During Laparoscopic Surgery

June 17, 2015

On June 11, 2015, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1.57 million in favor of the plaintiff and against a gynecological surgeon and his medical practice. The verdict included $474,477.00 for the plaintiff’s past medical expenses and $1.1 million for her p[...]

California College Athlete Awarded $1M Medical Malpractice Verdict

June 10, 2015

On June 2, 2015, a now 25-year-old former college athlete in California received a verdict in the amount of $1,045,000 that included $285,000 for her past lost earnings, $730,000 for her future loss of earnings claim, and $30,000 for her past and future pain and suffering claim. After the Californi[...]

New York Supreme Court: Dueling Expert Opinions In Medical Malpractice Case Precludes Summary Judgment

March 14, 2015

In a February 11, 2015 Decision and Order of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Clinton County (“Court”), the Court held that summary judgment is not appropriate in a medical malpractice action where there exist conflicting medical expert opinions because credibility issues[...]

Dirty Endoscopes, Deadly Consequences

February 21, 2015

Modern medicine offers more alternatives and procedures to help diagnose and treat medical conditions. The use of an endoscope (a flexible (or rigid) tube with a light and video camera attached to the end that is introduced into the body through an incision or existing opening that offers a mi[...]

Illinois Surgeon Not Disciplined Until 9 Years After Removing Wrong Organ

January 11, 2015

An Illinois surgeon who removed a patient’s wrong organ during surgery in 2005 was not professionally disciplined for his egregious wrongful act until September 24, 2014. The surgeon was disciplined by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional[...]

New York Surgeon Sued For Medical Malpractice For The 12th Time Since 1996

December 6, 2014

On October 22, 2014, a New York medical malpractice lawyer filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against an upstate New York surgeon. The lawsuit was the second medical malpractice case filed against the same surgeon in 2014. There are at least three other New York medical malpractice cases presently [...]

$1.5M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Botched Lap Chole

June 28, 2014

On June 23, 2014, a Georgia medical malpractice jury awarded $1.5 million to a 30-year-old man who suffered permanent, life-changing injuries as a result of negligently performed lap chole surgery. The man alleged that he suffered a severe ischemic injury to his femoral and sciatic nerves and has pe[...]

$2.3M Liposuction Malpractice Settlement

June 6, 2014

A New York plastic surgeon has reached a settlement with the surviving spouse and children of a 32-year-old woman who had undergone a liposuction procedure in the Manhattan plastic surgeon’s office that allegedly resulted in her death. Two days after the June 25, 2009 liposuction procedure, th[...]

$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[...]

Study Shows Conservative Treatment Just As Good As Surgery For Certain Knee Pain

December 27, 2013

In a Finnish study appearing in the December 26, 2013 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers reported that the outcomes for study participants who had arthroscopic partial meniscectomy were no better than for study participants who had a “sham” surgical pr[...]

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