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Disturbing Medical Malpractice History Of California Malpractice Defendant

July 11, 2012

On May 22, 2012, a California medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of nearly $1.2 million in favor of the plaintiffs after a two-week trial (including $908,804 for medical expenses and pain and suffering of the medical malpractice victim and $267,500 to the patient’s husb[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Missed Cancer Diagnosis

July 9, 2012

In February, 2003, a woman’s physician ordered a chest x-ray for the woman in preparation for her back surgery. The physician received the x-ray report from the radiologist that noted a mass on the woman’s right lung but the physician never advised his patient about the finding or order[...]

$20.9 Million Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict After Newborn’s Shoulder Dystocia

July 8, 2012

On June 12, 2012, a Maryland medical malpractice jury awarded the family of a newborn $20.9 million for the baby’s permanent paralysis of his left arm allegedly due to the delivering obstetrician pulling too hard on the baby’s head during delivery, thereby causing left obstetrical brachi[...]

GlaxoSmithKline Agrees To Pay $3 Billion For Alleged Wrongdoing

July 7, 2012

The giant United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline Plc (“Glaxo”), has allegedly agreed to pay $3 billion to settle criminal and civil claims that it illegally promoted two of its premiere drugs, Paxil and Wellbutrin, and that it failed to report clinical safety dat[...]

Appeal Challenges California’s Medical Malpractice Cap On Noneconomic Damages

July 6, 2012

In 1975, California enacted a law known as The Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (“MICRA”) that limits noneconomic damages (pain and suffering, mental anguish, etc.) for death due to medical malpractice to $250,000. MICRA also requires notification to possible medical malpractice d[...]

Louisiana Medical Malpractice Claim For Permanent Paralysis

July 5, 2012

A man was admitted into the hospital for a liver transplant. While he was recuperating from his surgery, he was placed in a recliner for 7 to 8 hours. The medical staff then attempted to transfer the man from the recliner into his bed by using bed sheets. During the transfer, the man heard and felt[...]

Did Zoloft Cause Twins’ Birth Defects?

July 4, 2012

Zoloft is a brand-name antidepressant medication manufactured by the giant pharmaceutical company Pfizer. Zoloft is the brand name for sertraline HCL, which comes in tablet form (25 mg, 50 mg, or 100mg) and as an oral concentrate. Zoloft is approved for use in treating Major Depressive Disorder (M[...]

Former Indiana Doctor Has More Than 350 Medical Malpractice Claims Against Him

July 3, 2012

At one point in time, an Indiana ENT (ear, nose, and throat doctor) was well-respected and some even referred to him as the “Nose Doctor of Merrillville.” But beginning in 2004, local medical malpractice law firms began getting inquiries about possible medical malpractice claims against[...]

North Carolina Medical Malpractice Claim For Rape In E.R.

July 2, 2012

A North Carolina woman has filed a medical malpractice claim against a North Carolina hospital and others for allegedly failing to protect her from being raped by a male patient she did not know who was placed in the same room with her while she was sedated. The woman was brought to the hospital a[...]

Mississippi Medical Malpractice Claim For Injured Penis

July 1, 2012

In a Mississippi medical malpractice case that made us think out-loud, “You gotta be kidding,” a Mississippi man filed a “medical malpractice” case against his doctor and his nurse (who happened to be the doctor’s wife) alleging that the man’s penis sustaine[...]

One In Five New Nursing Home Residents Fall In First Thirty Days

June 30, 2012

A recently published study that reviewed data from Medicare and Medicaid involving more than 230,000 new nursing home residents in almost 10,000 nursing homes throughout the United States during 2006 found that 21% of them fell at least one time during their first 30 days in the nursing home. Falls[...]

$90.5 Million West Virginia Nursing Home Verdict Challenged

June 29, 2012

On June 28, 2012, the lawyers for the parties in a nursing home negligence case that resulted in a jury verdict in the amount of $90.5 million ($10 million for the alleged wrongful death of a nursing home resident and $80 million in punitive damages, based on claims of ordinary negligence, medical [...]

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