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Medscape Malpractice Report 2021

January 9, 2022

The Medscape Malpractice Report 2021 was released on November 19, 2021. The researchers surveyed 4,358 doctors across 29 specialties online from May 21, 2021 through August 28, 2021 and found that overall, physicians in the United States experienced a decrease in medical malpractice suits during the[...]

Hawaii Lawsuit Alleges Wrongful Commitment To Psychiatric Hospital For Over Two Years

January 8, 2022

A civil rights lawsuit filed in Hawaii on November 21, 2021 by 50-year-old Joshua Spriestersbach alleges that he was wrongfully committed to a Hawaii mental hospital for two years and eight months in a case of misidentification. Spriestersbach was kept for more than two years at Hawaii State Hospita[...]

Federal Appellate Court Vacates $8M Deliberate Indifference Medical Malpractice Award To Inmate

December 27, 2021

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) vacated a jury award to a federal inmate in his deliberate indifference medical malpractice case in the amount of $1 million in compensatory damages and $7 million in punitive damages (the jury had awarded $10 [...]

Fertility Clinic Sued After IVF Mixup Caused Two Couples To Raise The Other Couple’s Child

December 17, 2021

Alexander and Daphna Cardinale allege that the fertility clinic where they went for in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures implanted another couple’s embryo into Daphna and transferred their embryo into the other woman. As a result, the couples were unknowingly raising the other couple’[...]

Study Finds Intraoperative Error Most Common Claim In Orthopedic Sports Medicine Malpractice Claims

December 15, 2021

A study published in the medical journal Orthopedics on November 8, 2021 found that the most common reason for litigation involving orthopedic sports medicine surgical malpractice claims was intraoperative error (183 cases, 55.8%), and that neurovascular injury resulted in the highest monetary payou[...]

Texas Appellate Court Rules Nurse’s Claim He Was Subjected To Offensive Conduct While Under Anesthesia Is Medical Malpractice Claim

October 20, 2021

The Court of Appeals Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum Opinion filed on September 3, 2021 that the plaintiff nurse employee of the defendant hospital, who sued for intentional infliction of emotional distress for placing him i[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Cancer Misdiagnosis Led To Unnecessary Prostate Removal Surgery

October 16, 2021

A Pennsylvania man has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that a mix-up in the preparation and reading of slides from his prostate biopsy caused him to be misdiagnosed as having cancer. He alleges that the biopsy tissue from another patient was wrongfully identified as his and therefore he[...]

Florida Cardiologist Paid $6.75 Million To Resolve Allegations Of Performing Unnecessary Medical Procedures

October 9, 2021

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on September 15, 2021 that Dr. Ashish Pal, a cardiologist based in Orlando, Florida, paid $6.75 million to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by performing medically unnecessary ablations and vein stent procedures. The payment resolves [...]

Lawsuit Alleges Ransomware Attack On Alabama Hospital Led To Baby’s Death

October 4, 2021

An Alabama medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that a ransomware attack on a local hospital led to the death of a baby. The lawsuit alleges: “On July 9, 2019, Springhil Memorial Hospital suffered a serious ransomware attack that blocked and encrypted the hospital’s computer systems, netw[...]

Neurosurgeon Malpractice Claims Statistics

October 3, 2021

The Doctors Company, which is the largest physician-owed medical malpractice insurer in the United States, conducted an analysis in February 2021 of medical malpractice claims against neurosurgeons that closed between 2014 and 2019, which included 302 claims and lawsuits. The purpose of its analysis[...]

APIC Statement Regarding Resistant C. Auris Spreading In U.S. Healthcare Facilities

August 25, 2021

On July 23, 2021, the CDC issued a report in which it stated, “Candida auris is an emerging, often multidrug-resistant yeast that is highly transmissible, resulting in health care–associated outbreaks, especially in long-term care facilities. Skin colonization with C. auris allows spread a[...]

Alabama Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Neurosurgeon Performed Wrong Brain Surgery

July 5, 2021

An Alabama neurosurgeon who was charged with manslaughter in the death of a third-year medical student is now being sued for medical malpractice for allegedly performing the wrong brain surgery on his patient. The patient died four days after the wrong brain surgery. The patient had reportedly conse[...]

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