Medical Malpractice Claims Archives - Page 34 of 50

Four Connecticut Nursing Home Choking Deaths In Three Months

August 5, 2012

Four Connecticut nursing home residents have died due to choking between February and April, 2012. The last case occurred on April 18, 2012, when a resident who suffered from dementia and needed to be carefully watched while she was eating, was seated in a wheelchair in the nursing home’s di[...]

Medical Malpractice Claim For Transplanted Pancreas That Was Cancerous

August 4, 2012

On July 9, 2012, a woman in Illinois filed a medical malpractice claim against her transplant surgeon claiming that he transplanted into her a pancreas that had cancer. While the reason why the woman needed a pancreas transplant was not divulged, the life-saving surgery is typically performed on ve[...]

Montana Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death of 36-Year-Old

August 3, 2012

After a two-week trial during July, 2012, a Montana medical malpractice jury found that a local Butte, Montana hospital failed to timely diagnose the rare medical condition of a 36-year-old patient in 2006 that contributed to her death. The woman was suffering from TTP (thrombotic thrombocytopenic[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Jury Awards $21 Million For Botched Delivery

August 2, 2012

On July 31, 2012, a Maryland medical malpractice jury awarded a total of $21 million ($18 million for future medical expenses, $2 million for future lost wages, and $1 million in non-economic damages) to a now-9-year-old child and his parents after a two-week, hotly contested trial that focused on t[...]

Missouri Supreme Court Determines Cap On Noneconomic Damages Is Unconstitutional

August 1, 2012

In its written opinion filed on July 31, 2012, the Supreme Court of Missouri held “that section 538.210 [Missouri’s $350,000 statutory cap on noneconomic damages] is unconstitutional to the extent that it infringes on the jury’s constitutionally protected purpose of determining the a[...]

Large U.S. Drug Wholesaler To Pay $151 Million To Settle Claims

July 31, 2012

McKesson Corp., a large drug wholesaler in the United States, has agreed to pay $151 million to the District of Columbia and 29 U.S. states in order to settle claims that it inflated the prices of certain prescription medications that resulted in overpayments of millions of dollars in reimbursemen[...]

About 80 New Mexico Medical Malpractice Claims Settled For More Than $33 Million

July 30, 2012

Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico, is a 65-year-old nonprofit hospital that entered into bankruptcy protection last summer as a result of numerous medical malpractice claims filed against it alleging medical negligence, battery, and fraud. The medical malpractice c[...]

San Diego Doctor And Medical Device Manufacturer Ordered To Pay $5.2 Million

July 29, 2012

On July 25, 2012, a San Diego medical malpractice jury returned a verdict against an orthopedic doctor (who is the head doctor for the San Diego Chargers football team) and the medical device manufacturer Breg Inc. for the injuries suffered by a 15-year-old girl who underwent knee surgery in 2003.[...]

Update Concerning Man Charged In New Hampshire Hepatitis C Outbreak

July 28, 2012

In an update to our blog posting on July 22, 2012 entitled, “New Hampshire Med Tech Charged In Hep C Outbreak,” it has been revealed that the man allegedly responsible for causing a hepatitis C outbreak at Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire that infected more than 30 patients was fire[...]

Michigan Medical Malpractice Appellate Decision Reduces Plaintiffs’ Recoveries

July 26, 2012

On July 23, 2012, the State of Michigan Supreme Court (“Michigan Supreme Court”) decided a case in which the issue was how to apply Michigan’s cap on noneconomic damages when a medical malpractice jury renders a verdict but there was a settlement reached with some medical malprac[...]

Texas Theft Of Nursing Home Medications

July 25, 2012

A certified medication aide at a Texas nursing home who had worked at the nursing home since December, 2010 has been charged with stealing medications intended for nursing home patients and giving them to her common-law husband to sell. It is alleged that the woman would document in the nursing ho[...]

Illinois Medical Malpractice $12 Million Settlement For Disabled Child

July 24, 2012

An obstetrician and a local hospital in Illinois have agreed to settle a medical malpractice case filed against them for $12 million that alleged that medical negligence caused a newborn to suffer severe and permanent brain damage. The now 9-year-old child has cerebral palsy and cannot walk, hear, [...]

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