Medical Malpractice Case Archives - Page 21 of 32

Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Mutilated Genitals

June 21, 2012

A federal medical malpractice jury in Baltimore has awarded $1.5 million to a 38-year-old man whose genitals were allegedly mutilated by a flesh-eating bacteria that a local hospital failed to diagnose for over 58 hours. The award in the amount of $1.4 million for noneconomic damages will be auto[...]

District Of Columbia Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitations – Missed By One Day…

June 20, 2012

In an appellate court case decided on May 17, 2012, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s granting judgment in favor of the medical malpractice defendants because the plaintiff was one day late in filing his medical malpractice case. As the Court of Appeals sta[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Kidney Failure

June 19, 2012

On May 18, 2012, a medical malpractice jury in Georgia awarded just over $1 million to a man who had filed a medical malpractice lawsuit that claimed that his doctor had failed to order necessary blood tests and urine tests that should have been ordered and would have prevented the patient fro[...]

Unnecessary Chemotherapy — Was It Medical Malpractice?

June 16, 2012

When a 5-year-old girl had swelling in her throat that did not go away, her mother brought her to a local emergency room. The doctors who examined the little girl suspected that she had a cancerous tumor and ordered a biopsy. The results of the biopsy were inconclusive, so doctors referred the fami[...]

Las Vegas $4.5 Million Arbitration Award For Nursing Home Claim

June 15, 2012

A medical malpractice case filed against a Las Vegas, Nevada nursing home that alleged that medical malpractice and abuse at the nursing home led to the death of a resident has resulted in an arbitration award in the amount of $4.5 million. The case originally had been filed in Nevada’s sta[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Case For Endoscopy Resulting In Death

June 11, 2012

On May 12, 2012, the family of a 50-year-old man with muscular dystrophy who died as a result of an endoscopy filed a medical malpractice case against the gastroenterologist who had performed the procedure on the man. The medical malpractice defendants also include the gastroenterologist’s [...]

California Medical Malpractice Verdict For Obstetrical Malpractice

June 8, 2012

On April 20, 2012, a California medical malpractice jury awarded $74,525,000 to the family of a newborn who suffered a permanent, life-changing brain injury leading to the baby’s cerebral palsy in 2009. The majority of the jury’s award will go towards the payment of the medical expen[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Dye Used During Catheterization

June 7, 2012

During early May, 2012, a Maryland medical malpractice jury in Baltimore City returned a medical malpractice verdict in the amount of $1 million in favor of the two surviving sons of a woman who had a fatal allergic reaction to the dye used during her cardiac catheterization procedure. The two son[...]

New Jersey $6.3 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Botched Abdominal Surgery

June 6, 2012

On June 1, 2012, a New Jersey medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $6.3 million in favor of a 48-year-old woman who in February, 2007 had surgery involving her ovaries that ended up injuring her bowel that was not recognized until after the surgery was completed. As a resul[...]

Large Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosed Heart Condition

June 5, 2012

On May 31, 2012, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded the five young surviving children of a 38-year-old man $6.4 million as a result of alleged medical malpractice that resulted in the man’s death. The $6.4 million verdict included $5.5 million for the loss of guidance, tutelage[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict Due To Death During A Threesome

June 4, 2012

A Georgia medical malpractice jury on May 29, 2012 awarded $3 million to the survivors of a 31-year-old husband/father of two after a seven-day trial involving allegations that the man’s cardiologist committed medical malpractice that caused or contributed to his death that occurred during a t[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligent Cardiac Catheterization

June 3, 2012

On May 7, 2012, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $1.2M in favor of a woman who had undergone a cardiac catheterization (a procedure whereby a doctor inserts a wire tool and catheter through the patient’s groin and manipulates the catheter up the descendi[...]

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