Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Woman’s Blindness
January 25, 2012
On January 12, 2012, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $1 million in favor of a 67-year-old Maryland woman who suffered near-total blindness allegedly as a result of medical malpractice by her ophthalmologist. The verdict will be reduced to $620,000 due to the [...]
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$178 Million Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict
January 24, 2012
On Friday, January 20, 2012, a Florida jury awarded $168 million in compensatory damages in a medical malpractice case; on Monday, January 23, 2012, the same medical malpractice jury awarded another $10 million in punitive damages. The medical malpractice claim involved an obese deputy’s lapar[...]
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Mississippi Medical Malpractice Judgment For Botched Abortion
January 21, 2012
Earlier this month, a Mississippi judge entered a default judgment in a medical malpractice case in favor of a woman and her husband for the alleged injuries sustained by the woman when the doctor performing her abortion suddenly stopped the procedure and sent her home, despite the woman h[...]
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Psychologist Malpractice
January 18, 2012
A 31-year-old Minnesota woman has filed a medical malpractice case against her former psychologist and others in Missouri, alleging that the psychologist implanted her with false memories in order to run up her treatment bills that were being paid by her health insurance company. The woman spent six[...]
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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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Walgreens, Generic Drug Manufacturer Accused Of Overcharging
January 16, 2012
A recently filed federal lawsuit claims that the largest drugstore chain, Walgreens, and a generic drug manufacturer, Par Pharmaceuticals Cos., overcharged insurance companies, union health and welfare funds, and self-insured employers for generic versions of Prozac, Zantac, and generic versions o[...]
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Did Utah Medical Malpractice Lead to Murder?
January 15, 2012
The conservator for the two very young sons of a man who shot and killed his wife (the sons’ mother) in a church parking lot filed a medical malpractice case against the nurse practitioner and others who prescribed multiple anti-depressants and mood-altering drugs to the man that the medical [...]
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