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Louisiana Medical Malpractice Case Alleges Left Behind Surgical Sponge Led To Massive Infection

October 3, 2014

The widow of a man who suffered a serious infection following surgery because a surgical sponge was negligently left behind in his abdomen filed a Louisiana medical malpractice case on August 4, 2014 against the surgeon and others. The wife seeks unspecified compensatory damages as well as equit[...]

Louisiana Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges ER Misdiagnosis Led to Death

August 21, 2014

On June 23, 2014, a Louisiana mother filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against a local hospital and two physicians, alleging that the misdiagnosis of her daughter led to her untimely death. The plaintiff seeks in her wrongful death lawsuit unspecified compensatory damages that include funeral expe[...]

Louisiana Psychiatric Hospital Sued For Patient’s Stroke

June 21, 2014

A former patient at a Louisiana psychiatric hospital has sued the psychiatric hospital, a physician, and others for medical malpractice, alleging that their medical negligence resulted in the woman suffering a stroke. The psychiatric malpractice case was filed last month in Louisiana and seeks unspe[...]

Dental Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Bad Treatment Requiring Further Surgery

May 5, 2014

A Louisiana man has filed a dental malpractice lawsuit against his former dentist and the dentist’s employer, alleging dental negligence by the dentist who performed an unnecessary dental procedure using an improper technique, failing to obtain the patient’s informed consent, and failin[...]

$330.7M Risperdal Verdict In Louisiana Overturned

February 4, 2014

By its written opinion dated January 28, 2014, the Supreme Court of Louisiana (“Louisiana Supreme Court”) reversed (overturned) a lower court’s verdict that had awarded civil penalties in the amount of $257,679,500.00, attorney fees in the amount of $70,000,000.00, and costs [...]

Louisiana Medical Malpractice Lawsuit For Emergency Room Negligence (Twice)

January 19, 2014

On December 23, 2013, a Louisiana medical malpractice lawsuit was filed by a woman on her own behalf and on behalf of her two minor children for the death of her husband that was due to alleged medical malpractice that occurred in a hospital emergency room on two separate occasions. The medical m[...]

Louisiana Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Post-Surgical Death

October 16, 2013

The family of a 67-year-old Louisiana woman who died following elective spine surgery has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the hospital where the surgery was performed, claiming that the medical staff negligently failed to diagnose and treat post-surgical complications that led to the wo[...]

Louisiana Medical Malpractice Case Filed By Obese Patient Who Was Dropped

April 13, 2013

On February 4, 2013, an obese Louisiana woman filed a medical malpractice claim against a Louisiana medical clinic after she was dropped by clinic personnel while she was being transferred from a wheelchair to her bed. When she fell, her left leg ended up under her body, causing her left fibula[...]

Nurse’s Negligence Leads To Hospital Patient’s Paraplegia And Death

December 25, 2012

On the night of May 11, 2000, an insulin-dependent diabetic patient was admitted into a Louisiana hospital due to abdominal pain, back pain, and vomiting leading to his dehydration. His admitting physician diagnosed him with diabetic ketoacidosis (a condition that occurs in diabetics when the bo[...]

Louisiana Medical Malpractice Discovery Rule Explained

December 21, 2012

In an appellate court decision rendered by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal of the State of Louisiana (“the Court”) on November 13, 2012, the Court interpreted LSA-R.S. 9:5628, which controls the prescriptive period for medical malpractice actions and states that an action for damages [...]

What Is Medical Malpractice? (Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri)

September 11, 2012

What is medical malpractice? Here are the “official” definitions of medical malpractice from Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri: Arkansas Arkansas Code, 16-114-206. Burden of proof. (a) In any action for medical injury, when the asserted negligence does not lie within the jury’s co[...]

Louisiana $24 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Brain Damaged Child

August 16, 2012

A medical malpractice jury in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana spent approximately one hour in deliberations after a one-week trial that concluded on August 10, 2012, before awarding $24 million (including $20 million for future medical expenses) for the permanent brain damage suffered by a toddler dur[...]

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