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German Court Awards $535,000 For Delay In Brain Tumor Surgery Due To Easter Holiday

August 10, 2021

A German court on June 23, 2021 ordered Hamburg-Eppendorf University Clinic to pay a now 23-year-old man $535,000 in compensation for pain and suffering, and to pay all future medical expenses, due to a surgeon’s delay in operating on his brain tumor because of a medical staff shortage during [...]

89-Year-Old Hospital Patient In Argentina Declared Dead, Wakes Up During Cremation

February 28, 2021

An 89-year-old woman in Argentina went to a private hospital complaining of chest pain where she was found to also have shortness of breath. The hospital subsequently declared her dead. The local police reported, “The woman’s daughter went to the hospital at 8:45 a.m., where she met a do[...]

Did Argentine Soccer Legend Diego Maradona Die As A Result Of Medical Negligence?

January 6, 2021

It has been reported that soccer legend Diego Maradona, who died from a heart attack while at home in Argentina on November 25, 2020 at the age of 60, may have been the victim of medical negligence by his personal physician, who is a neurosurgeon. According to reports, Maradona’s house and his[...]

Unmasked OB Spreads Devastating Infection To Mother During Baby’s Delivery

December 6, 2020

A medical malpractice claim has been filed against a Tel Aviv, Israel OB for allegedly spreading his group A Streptococcus (“Strep A”) infection to the patient whose baby he was delivering because he failed to wear a mask during the delivery. The 39-year-old woman was delivered by vacuum[...]

Virgin Islands Court Upholds Damages Cap In Medical Malpractice Cases

November 23, 2020

The Superior Court of the Virgin Islands Division of St. Thomas and St John, in its Memorandum Opinion dated October 19, 2020, held in a Virgin Islands medical malpractice case: “The MMA’s [the Virgin Islands Medical Malpractice Act] $250,000 cap on total damages represents a legislative[...]

Dubai Prosecutors Seek Greater Jail Time For Foreign Doctors Convicted Of Medical Malpractice

July 1, 2020

Three foreign doctors in Dubai were reportedly convicted of medical malpractice and sentenced to one year in jail. Prosecutors in Dubai were not satisfied with the length of the jail sentence and are seeking additional jail time for the three doctors (a Dominican Republic national and two Syrians). [...]

“Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Issues raised by Paterson”

March 9, 2020

On February 4, 2020, a report entitled “Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Issues raised by Paterson” (“Report”) was printed pursuant to an order of the U.K. House of Commons. Ian Paterson, the subject of the Report, had graduated from medical school in the U.K. in 19[...]

Time Magazine Reports Medical Malpractice Still Harms 40% Of Patients

November 20, 2019

An article appearing in Time magazine in its November 25, 2019 print addition reports, “Globally, medical errors harm as many as 40% of patients in primary and outpatient care.” The Time article states the global annual cost of medication-related errors is $42 billion, and that one milli[...]

Failure To Check Patient’s Identity, Medical Records Mixup Result In Abortion Provided To Wrong Woman

October 10, 2019

A woman in South Korea who was six weeks pregnant went to a clinic to have a nutritional injection. Instead, she received an unwanted abortion because the medical staff at the clinic failed to check her identity and there was a mixup in the medicals records between her and a woman who had gone to [&[...]

Medical Tourism – Galenia Hospital, Cancun, Mexico

August 31, 2019

A 56-year-old woman from Mississippi, who needed knee replacement surgery that would be covered under her husband’s health care insurance, chose to have the surgery performed at Galenia Hospital in Cancun, Mexico, where a surgeon from Wisconsin flew in to perform the surgery. Not only did the [...]

Maryland Federal Court Allows Guatemalan Nationals Lawsuit Involving Medical Experiments To Proceed Under Alien Tort Statute

January 17, 2019

Plaintiffs Estate of Arturo Giron Alvarez and 773 other Guatemalan nationals filed a civil action against the Johns Hopkins University and four affiliated entities, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants subjected them or their family[...]

Virgin Islands Supreme Court Revives Medical Malpractice Complaint

January 5, 2019

In its opinion filed on November 19, 2018, the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands (“Virgin Islands Supreme Court”) held that the record before it “clearly demonstrates that [the plaintiff] filed a proposed complaint with the Committee [i.e., the Medical Malpractice Action Review C[...]

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