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Mexico Medical Malpractice Claim: Toddler’s Wrong Eye Removed

July 12, 2015

Medical malpractice is not only prevalent in the United States, where many victims suffer devastating injuries as a result of medical negligence, but it appears that medical negligence also occurs throughout the world, causing avoidable injuries that forever change the lives of medical malpractic[...]

Johns Hopkins University Sued For $1B For STD Studies Conducted In Guatemala 70 Years Ago

April 7, 2015

On April 1, 2015, a lawsuit was filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against Johns Hopkins University, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Bristol-Myers Squibb for their alleged part in U.S. government studies conducted in the 1940s in Guatemala that allegedly involved infecting hundreds of p[...]

Ecuadorian Beauty Queen Dies During Plastic Surgery She Won

January 21, 2015

A 19-year-old woman from Ecuador, who won a beauty pageant in Ecuador in October 2014, died on January 10, 2015 as a result of cerebral edema she suffered during elective plastic surgery (abdominal liposuction) she was undergoing at a clinic in her home town. The plastic surgeon who performed t[...]

England’s National Health Service Plagued By Infection Malpractice Claims

April 24, 2014

England’s National Health Service (“NHS”), the world’s largest publicly funded health service, has seen a recent unhealthy uptick in infection rates and in medical malpractice claims involving infections. The National Institution for Health and Care Excellence (“NICE&#[...]

A Case Of Medical Malpractice In Canada

February 18, 2014

On April 8, 2005, a woman had surgery in Canada to address a bladder condition. She woke up in excruciating pain that did not subside when she arrived home after the surgery. The pain was so bad that she was unable to walk on her own; she also had a fever. Over the following months, she went to [[...]

Study: Misdiagnosis And Medication Errors Are Most Common Bases Of Medical Malpractice Claims

July 21, 2013

In a study published on July 18, 2013 in the well-respected medical journal, BMJ (British Medical Journal), it was determined that misdiagnosis (failure to diagnose or delay in diagnosis) and medication errors, respectively, were the most common bases of medical malpractice claims (defined as a wr[...]

Tick-Borne Encephalitis Leads To $41,750,000 Verdict

July 6, 2013

On March 27, 2013, after eight days of trial, a Connecticut federal jury returned a verdict in the amount of $41,750,000 in favor of a now 20-year-old New York woman who contracted a very serious disease as a result of a tick bite that she experienced during her high school trip to China that h[...]

Elective Surgeries On Weekends Come With 86% Greater Odds Of Death

May 31, 2013

In a research article published by the well-respected British medical journal BMJ on May 28, 2013, the researchers reported that their review of all acute and specialist English hospitals carrying out elective surgery over three financial years, from 2008-09 to 2010-11, found that there was 44% h[...]

U.S. Supreme Court To Decide Medical Malpractice Case

January 14, 2013

It is very infrequent that the United States Supreme Court (“Supreme Court”) agrees to decide a medical malpractice case, and even rarer that it agrees to decide a case where the person seeking review is not represented by an attorney. But that is exactly what the Supreme Court has agree[...]

FDA Shuts Down More Than 18,000 Illegal Internet Pharmacy Websites

December 30, 2012

Between September 25 and October 2, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), in cooperation and coordination with international law enforcement and regulatory agencies in 100 countries, shut down more than 18,000 illegal Internet pharmacy websites operated by more than 4,100[...]

Russian Medical Malpractice Claim Denied For Jailed Activist’s Death

December 29, 2012

It is not very often that a medical malpractice claim in one country has led to international repercussions in which sovereign countries have enacted laws directed at officials of other countries in a spiraling escalation of retaliatory responses. But that is apparently what is happening this [...]

Dubai Doctor Files Appeal Of Medical Malpractice Finding Against Him Regarding Newborn’s Death

November 4, 2012

A doctor in Dubai who had been found to be responsible for the January, 2012 death of a newborn baby has appealed the decision of an investigative committee of the Clinical Governance Office (“CGO”) of the Dubai Healthcare Authority (“DHA”). An investigative committee for[...]

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