Medical Malpractice Claims Archives - Page 9 of 50

Indiana Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Act Applied To Denied Access To Electronic Medical Records Claim

June 18, 2021

The wife of a man who suffered a stroke after being treated on three different occasions at the defendant health care facility filed a proposed complaint for medical malpractice on March 17, 2015, and several amended proposed complaints thereafter, with the Indiana Department of Insurance (“DOI”[...]

Medical Malpractice Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against ICE Gynecologist

May 21, 2021

The Government Accountability Project has reported: “More than 40 women are a part of a medical malpractice class action lawsuit against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Dr. Mahendra Amin, a gynecologist accused of medical abuse, and unwanted gynecological procedures at t[...]

Mizzou BioJoint Settlements Announced

April 30, 2021

The University of Missouri has reportedly settled personal injury and false advertising lawsuits filed from 2018 through 2020 that allege that the “BioJoint” surgeries pioneered by two university employees, orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Stannard and veterinarian Dr. James Cook, which involved[...]

Iowa Surgeon Finally Surrendered His License Following Years Of Incompetence Claims

April 6, 2021

The Iowa Capital Dispatch reported that a 40-year-old surgeon has voluntarily surrendered his Iowa medical license seventeen months after his medical license was summarily suspended and two years after his clinical privileges were suspended at various medical facilities. During his career as a surge[...]

Will Increased Use Of Telemedicine Result In Increase In Medical Malpractice Claims?

February 26, 2021

Telemedicine may be defined as the use of electronic information and communications technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates the participants, or as the practice of medicine using technology to deliver care at a distance where a physician in one location uses a telecom[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Chemo Drug Caused Patient’s Death

February 17, 2021

A West Virginia medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit alleges that a 41-year-old West Virginia man who had been recently diagnosed with rectal cancer was improperly treated with a chemotherapy drug that is known to worsen patients’ preexisting heart disease, causing his death. The patholo[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Defendants Not Entitled To Summary Judgment In Vasectomy Malpractice Case

February 16, 2021

The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) held in its Memorandum and Order entered on December 23, 2020 that the medical malpractice defendants were not entitled to summary judgment in a New York medical malprac[...]

New York Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment Granted To Some Medical Malpractice Defendants In Gallbladder Surgery Case

February 1, 2021

The New York Supreme Court Appellate Division, Second Department (“New York Appellate Court”), in its decision dated January 13, 2021, reversed the lower court’s granting summary judgment in favor of some of the New York medical malpractice defendants in a case involving gallbladde[...]

More Than 40 Migrant Women Involved In Georgia Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Forced Medical Procedures At Immigration Detention Center

January 31, 2021

On December 21, 2020, female immigrants filed a proposed class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia for alleged forced medical procedures that they were required to undergo at a Georgia immigration detention center. The eight named plaintiffs, some of whom rem[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Holds Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Failed To Support Claim For Emotional Distress

January 16, 2021

In its published opinion dated December 29, 2020, the New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) held: “plaintiff alleges emotional distress caused by the professional negligence of a surgeon who failed to remove surgical washers from his leg. Plain[...]

West Virginia National Guard Says 42 People Wrongly Given Antibody Treatment Instead Of COVID-19 Vaccine

January 2, 2021

The West Virginia National Guard issued a statement on December 31, 2020 stating that it learned on December 30, 2020 that an “error” resulted in 42 people receiving the Regeneron antibody product instead of the Moderna Vaccine. The 42 individuals received the antibody product at a vacci[...]

Unmasked OB Spreads Devastating Infection To Mother During Baby’s Delivery

December 6, 2020

A medical malpractice claim has been filed against a Tel Aviv, Israel OB for allegedly spreading his group A Streptococcus (“Strep A”) infection to the patient whose baby he was delivering because he failed to wear a mask during the delivery. The 39-year-old woman was delivered by vacuum[...]

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