Virginia Medical Malpractice Claim For Alleged IV Infection

April 9, 2012

A woman in Virginia filed a medical malpractice case in late March, 2012 against a local hospital in which she claims she acquired a serious blood infection due to the use of an intravenus catheter (IV) that became contaminated while she was in the hospital in 2010 for treatment of a partial [...]

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A Study Of Defense Costs For Medical Malpractice Claims

April 7, 2012

An article appearing in The New England Journal of Medicine on April 5, 2012 analyzed 26,853 medical malpractice claims that were closed between 1995 and 2005 (“closed claims” include medical malpractice claims that resulted in an indemnity payment (a payment made to a medical malprac[...]

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Missouri Medical Malpractice Cap Being Challenged

April 5, 2012

A 2005 Missouri law that placed caps on non-economic damages in the amount of $350,000 is presently being challenged as unconstitutional in a case before the Supreme Court of Missouri. The case involves a medical malpractice claim arising out of the birth of a baby in Missouri on November 1, 2006.[...]

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Oregon Medical Malpractice Wrongful Birth Verdict

March 20, 2012

On March 9, 2012, an Oregon medical malpractice jury returned a verdict after a ten-day trial in the amount of almost $3 million in favor of the parents of a Down syndrome daughter that the 12-member jury determined would help cover the extra costs of caring for their daughter that the parents c[...]

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California Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Turns Criminal

March 19, 2012

A 77-year-old Alzheimer’s patient, who had been married to her 81-year-old husband for 60 years, was admitted into a California nursing home for care so that she could recover from pneumonia. At the time of her admission to the nursing home, it was known that the woman was prone to chronic[...]

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