West VA Medical Malpractice Death Caused By Bowel Perforation
February 1, 2012
When a 67-year-old man who was suffering from multiple sclerosis and was paralyzed from the chest down went to a local West Virginia hospital to be treated for a urinary tract infection, the last thing he or his family would have anticipated would be that the man would never make it home again. Inst[...]
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Medical Malpractice Claims In Other Countries
January 27, 2012
While we have been blogging about medical malpractice issues in the United States daily for almost one year, we thought we would broaden our horizons to see how other countries may address medical malpractice claims. We started to investigate medical malpractice cases in other Western countries and [...]
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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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