Medical Malpractice Claims Archives - Page 6 of 50

Widower Intends To Sue Phoenix Fire Department For Failure To Transport Wife By Ambulance To Hospital

December 7, 2022

Widower Sues Fire Department For Failure To Transport Wife: The surviving husband of a 53-year-old woman who had been suffering from COVID-19 for weeks when she suddenly took a turn for the worse and was experiencing shortness of breath and a pounding heart, called 911 and asked the operator to send[...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants In tPA Stroke Case

November 15, 2022

Court Reverses Summary Judgment In tPA Stroke Case: In its Decision & Order dated August 17, 2022, the New York Appellate Division, Second Department held: “the plaintiffs raised triable issues of fact as to whether Nandakumar departed from the accepted standard of care in his neurological[...]

$15M Alabama Jury Verdict For Death of 8-Year-Old With Sickle Cell Disease In Foster Care

November 9, 2022

$15M Verdict For Death of 8-Year-Old In Foster Care: On August 5, 2022, an Alabama jury returned its verdict in the amount of $15 million against a social worker employed by the Alabama Department of Human Resources and a foster care provider for their alleged negligence in the death of an 8-year-ol[...]

Lawsuit Alleges Physician Responsible For Husband's Death

West Virginia Widow’s Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Primary Care Physician Responsible For Husband’s Fatal Heart Attack

November 4, 2022

Lawsuit Alleges Physician Responsible For Husband’s Death: The widow of a 51-year-old attorney who died ten days after suffering a heart attack in front of his wife at home in March 2022 has filed a West Virginia medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against her husband’s primary ca[...]

100 Million Americans Have Health Care Debt

Only 2% of Medical Malpractice Claims Filed By Service Members Have Been Approved By The U.S. Military

November 2, 2022

Only 2% of Malpractice Claims Filed by Service Members Have Been Approved By The U.S. Military: U. S. military service members are barred from suing the federal government for injuries considered to be incidental to service, including medical malpractice, under the Feres doctrine set forth in a U.S.[...]

Doctors Partially Sterilized Patient Without Her Consent Before They Realized Their Mistake

November 2, 2022

Patient Partially Sterilized Without Consent: A woman who gave birth by emergency Cesarean section delivery in May 2021 at Mount Sinai Hospital in North Lawndale, Illinois had one of her fallopian tubes tied immediately after the C-section before the doctor realized that the woman had not consented [...]

350 Florida Lawsuits Allege Orthopedic Surgeon With Progressive Neurological Disorder Harmed Patients

October 21, 2022

350 Florida Lawsuits Allege Orthopedic Surgeon Harmed Patients: Lawsuits filed in Florida allege that patients of orthopedic surgeon Richard David Heekin, M.D., who specialized in hip and knee replacement surgeries, noticed between 2016 and 2020 that Heekin was slurring his words and he was having d[...]

California Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Unnecessary Sinus Surgery

October 11, 2022

Lawsuit Alleges Unnecessary Surgery: A recently filed California medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that defendant ENT/head and neck surgeon Dr. Alen N. Cohen (“Dr. Cohen”) and defendant plastic surgeon Matthew “Matt” Hershcovitch (“Dr. Hershcovitch”) recommended unnecessary sinus surge[...]

Nursing Malpractice Statistics

September 16, 2022

Nursing Malpractice Statistics: In its report entitled “A Dose Of Insight: A Nurse’s Crucial Role In Patient Safety: Through The Lens Of Malpractice Claims” dated September 9, 2022, Coverys evaluated 4,634 events that closed between 2018 and 2021 and identified 850 specific events [...]

$6.6M Sought In Oregon Dental Malpractice Case Involving Misdiagnosed Tongue Cancer

September 12, 2022

An Oregon man recently filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against his former dentist, alleging that the dentist negligently failed to diagnose his tongue cancer after he pointed out to the dentist some discoloration in his tongue during an office visit in 2013. The man’s dental malpractice la[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Dismisses Contribution Claim In Medical Malpractice Case

September 10, 2022

In its unpublished opinion dated June 20, 2022, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) stated in a case where the underlying cause of action was for medical malpractice, “In this appeal, we consider again whether a settling tortfeasor may[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

The Doctors Company Has Paid Over $140M To Insureds Who Have Retired

September 7, 2022

The Doctors Company is the nation’s largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, insuring 84,000 doctors nationwide. The Doctors Company offers comprehensive risk solutions for practices of all sizes—from medical and dental solo practitioners to the largest multispecialty, multistate gro[...]

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