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New Mexico Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement Declared Unenforceable

November 3, 2012

In an August 16, 2012 decision from the Court of Appeals of New Mexico (“the Court”), the Court affirmed that an agreement to arbitrate claims contained in a nursing home agreement between the nursing home resident and the nursing home was “substantively unconscionable” und[...]

Iowa Nursing Home Resident’s Life Valued At $8,000

November 2, 2012

When a 64-year-old woman was admitted into an Iowa nursing home, the woman’s doctor ordered that her airway be suctioned when mucous formed in her throat. The nursing home knew that without an open airway, the woman would be unable to breath and that she would die. That is just what happen[...]

New Mexico Nursing Home Claim For Negligently Inserted Feeding Tube

November 1, 2012

In August, 2012, a medical malpractice claim was filed against a Santa Fe, New Mexico nursing home alleging that the staff of the nursing home negligently inserted a feeding tube in a 56-year-old resident that had been pulled out by the confused resident, by inserting the tube into her abdominal [...]

Another Massachusetts Compounding Pharmacy Loses License

October 31, 2012

Infusion Resource, a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy that produces sterile injectable medications for patients recently discharged from the hospital, has voluntarily surrendered its pharmacy license following an unannounced inspection of its facilities by the Massachusetts Department of Public H[...]

Pennsylvania Wrongful Death Claim For Failure To Deliver Oxygen To Patient’s Home

October 30, 2012

On October 24, 2012, a Pennsylvania man filed a wrongful death lawsuit against an oxygen supply company for its alleged failure to timely deliver sufficient oxygen to the home of his 57-year-old mother who had advance stage lung cancer. The woman’s son claims in his wrongful death lawsuit th[...]

FDA’S Disturbing Inspection Of The New England Compounding Center

October 29, 2012

The FDA issued a report on October 26, 2012 regarding its inspection of the facilities of the New England Compounding Center (NECC) that took place on October 1-2, 4-5, 9, 15, and 26, 2012, and the reported observations are disturbing. NECC is at the center of the recent fungal meningitis outbrea[...]

Three Oklahoma Drug Rehab Deaths Lead To Three Wrongful Death Lawsuits

October 27, 2012

The mother of a 32-year-old man who had entered inpatient drug rehabilitation at an Oklahoma rehab facility known as Narconon Arrowhead in Pittsburg County was hopeful that the drug rehab facility would help her son turn his life around. Little did she know that her son would die while receiving [...]

Are Fungal Meningitis Claims Medical Malpractice Or Product Liability Claims?

October 26, 2012

As the recent fungal meningitis outbreak in the United States associated with contaminated epidural steroid injections produced by the New England Compounding Center (NECC) since May 21, 2012 spreads to more people in more states, one issue that will need to be resolved, and which may be resolv[...]

North Carolina $6 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgical Malpractice Leading To Death

October 25, 2012

A North Carolina medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in excess of $6 million in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiffs on October 10, 2012. The medical malpractice jury found that a surgeon had left a large sponge in a woman’s abdominal cavity following surgery that led to infec[...]

Our 600th Consecutive Daily Blog Post

October 24, 2012

Today we celebrate our 600th consecutive daily blog post. Our milestone makes us proud because we have covered many relevant and timely topics that have provided our readers with information that they could use at the time they needed the information the most. The responses to our blog have been tre[...]

Tennessee Medical Malpractice Claim For Inmate’s Death

October 23, 2012

On October 15, 2012, the surviving wife of a Tennessee prison inmate filed a medical malpractice wrongful death claim against the Tennessee Department of Correction in which she alleges that her 48-year-old husband died in prison due to medical malpractice. Her husband had a lung x-ray in September [...]

Doctor Had An Affair With His Patient: Is It Medical Malpractice?

October 22, 2012

When a doctor has an affair with his patient, is it considered to be medical malpractice? That is the question that New York’s highest appellate court is being asked to decide in an appeal of a $416,500 medical malpractice verdict against an osteopathic physician. The parties’ appellate[...]

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