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Former Ohio Doctor Charged With 25 Counts Of Murder Related To Opioids

June 17, 2019

A former Ohio doctor who had his Ohio medical license summarily suspended by the State Medical Board of Ohio on January 25, 2019 voluntarily surrendered to authorities in Columbus, Ohio in early June 2019 to face charges in 25 deaths following a six-month investigation by the Franklin County Prosecu[...]

Investigation Finds Hundreds Of Florida Doctors With Multiple Medical Malpractice Payouts Still Practicing Despite Three Strikes Law

June 1, 2019

A Florida news organization reports that it found “[h]undreds of Florida doctors have paid out multiple malpractice claims – putting patients at risk 15 years after voters passed a law that was supposed to take away their licenses … Florida doctors paid out more than $460 million for m[...]

Today’s 3,000th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting

May 7, 2019

Today, we celebrate a great achievement – our 3,000th consecutive daily blog posting! Yes, for 3,000 days in a row, we have posted to the blog on our website, www.medicalmalpracticelawyers.com. All of our past (and future) blog postings are fully searchable by word or phrase – it’s[...]

Feres Doctrine Will Likely Bar Medical Malpractice Claim For Soldier’s Delayed Diagnosis Of Stomach Cancer

March 7, 2019

On October 31, 2018, an Army Sergeant died following a prolonged battle with stage 4 stomach cancer. His widow claims that military care providers committed medical malpractice when they failed to diagnose his stomach cancer during multiple visits to Army base doctors over a four-year period. The Ar[...]

U.S. Expands Efforts To Fight Opioid Epidemic To Unscrupulous Dispensing Pharmacies

February 22, 2019

The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed on February 8, 2019 a civil complaint filed in the Middle District of Tennessee against two pharmacies, their owner, and three pharmacists, to stop them from dispensing controlled substance medications, including powerful opioids that have been linked to abuse[...]

Vanderbilt University Medical Center Receives Medicare/Medicaid Termination Notice

December 5, 2018

The Department of Health & Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Atlanta Regional Office (“CMS”) has provided written notice that “effective December 9, 2018, the agreement between Vanderbilt University Medical Center … and the Secretary of Healt[...]

New York Appellate Court Revives Failure To Diagnose Compartment Syndrome Medical Malpractice Case

October 8, 2018

The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division: Second Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held in its Decision & Order dated August 29, 2018 that the trial court should have denied the New York medical malpractice defendants’ motion for summary jud[...]

How To Avoid Becoming A Medical Malpractice Victim – Part II: Get Your Medical Records, Read Them Carefully, And Get Them Corrected, If Necessary

September 27, 2018

Victims of medical malpractice are most often harmed through no fault of their own. Yet some of the victims of medical negligence may have avoided their serious injuries if they had requested and obtained a copy of their medical records, read them carefully for accuracy, and requested necessary corr[...]

Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Case Filed For Death Of Premature Baby Who Contracted Virus In NICU

September 21, 2018

A medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit reportedly was filed in August 2018 against Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (“CHOP”), alleging that a premature baby treated at the hospital in 2016 was one of 23 infants who contracted a virus while being treated in the hospitalR[...]

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Rules In Favor Of Psychiatric Hospital

September 15, 2018

The Massschusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided in its August 14, 2018 opinion, in a psychiatric malpractice case in which the plaintiffs alleged that by releasing a patient eleven days after his commitment when there was a likelihood of serious harm to all persons who came in contact with him that[...]

$8M Verdict Against Medical Malpractice Lawyer

August 22, 2018

On July 25, 2018, a jury in Arizona awarded $6,232,000 in compensatory damages and an additional $1,768,000 in punitive damages in favor of the plaintiff surgeon in his lawsuit against a Las Vegas medical malpractice lawyer and his law firm who had previously sued the surgeon for medical malpractice[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms New Trial Order In Medical Malpractice Case Where Defense Repeatedly Asked Improper Questions

August 13, 2018

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”) on July 10, 2018 affirmed an order for a new trial in a Pennsylvania medical malpractice case where the jury returned a defense verdict following the defense attorney repeatedly asking improper questions of witnesses dur[...]

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