Medical Malpractice Lawyers Archives - Page 27 of 35

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Claim For Good Deed Turned Deadly

February 25, 2012

An unmarried couple who had been together for 21 years and had an eighteen-year-old son together had to deal with a life-altering situation when the man’s kidneys were failing due to his diabetes and kidney dialysis wasn’t working well for him. Out of a sense of compassion and caring,[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Pregnant Teens Who Lost Their Baby

February 24, 2012

Two 19-year-olds were looking forward to the birth of their baby. In preparation for the birth of a healthy baby, the expectant mother began prenatal visits with a gynecologist when she was six weeks pregnant. The pregnancy appeared to be progressing without difficulties. A couple of months after [...]

Teva Pharmaceuticals To Pay $285 Million To Settle Nevada Hepatitis C Claims

February 23, 2012

The giant international pharmaceutical company Teva Pharmaceuticals (“Teva”) has agreed to pay $285 million to settle approximately 120 product liability lawsuits against it that include the claims of 150 former patients at a southern Nevada endoscopy center who supposedly contracted[...]

New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Undiagnosed Aneurysm

February 22, 2012

When a 49-year-old man walked into a New York hospital’s emergency room in November, 2007, he complained to the emergency room physician of classic signs of an aortic aneurysm (an aneurysm is a balloon-like bulge in an artery caused by certain medical conditions, genetic conditions, or traum[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice: 124 Medical Malpractice Claims Against 1 Doctor In Only 7 Months Of Medical Practice

February 20, 2012

Wow. A former osteopathic doctor who performed surgeries at a West Virginia hospital has had 124 medical malpractice claims filed against him arising out of his only 7 months of medical practice at that hospital. In the most recent medical malpractice court hearing against him, the former doctor[...]

Kentucky Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgeon’s Broken Legs

February 19, 2012

A retired surgeon who was in his mid-80s was being cared for by a nursing assistant who was supposed to use a lifting device to transfer the man from a chair to his bed but failed to do so. As a result of the nursing assistant’s failure to use the proper procedure for the man’s transfer[...]

Proposed Changes To Florida’s Medical Malpractice Law Harms Malpractice Victims

February 18, 2012

The Republican-led Florida Legislature is considering amendments to Florida’s medical malpractice law to make it more difficult for victims of medical malpractice to win their medical malpractice cases and would also allow medical malpractice defendants’ lawyers to speak with the victi[...]

Rick Santorum’s View Of Medical Malpractice Claims — Good For His Wife But Bad For You

February 17, 2012

The Republicans running for President of the United States agree that you should not be fully compensated for your injuries and losses suffered as a result of medical malpractice. They want to put a cap (limit) on the amount that a jury can compensate you after the jury has heard all the testimo[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Case: From Medical Heroes To Medical Villains

February 16, 2012

In a medical malpractice case decided on February 10, 2012 by the Maryland Court of Appeals (Maryland’s highest appellate court), the Court of Appeals (“Court”) upheld a Maryland medical malpractice jury verdict in the amount of $3.6 million in favor of the plaintiff as a result o[...]

Did Medical Malpractice Kill Whitney Houston?

February 15, 2012

While speculation continues to swirl with regard to what caused Whitney Houston’s recent death, with little accurate information being disclosed by the authorities and official statements warning that it will take weeks before the official cause of death is known (after toxicology results [...]

Louisiana Medical Malpractice Claim For Sedated Patient Who Fell From Procedure Table

February 15, 2012

Certain medical procedures require the patient to receive some form of sedation (ranging from a light sedation commonly called I.V. sedation that results in the patient being relaxed and feeling sleepy and causes the patient to forget the procedure and the time immediately afterwards but enables th[...]

Chicago Medical Malpractice Results In Elderly Man Freezing To Death

February 14, 2012

The 77-year-old male resident of a Chicago nursing home had a habit of wandering off from the premises. With a history of two previous recent incidents when he had wandered away, he was a known risk for leaving the nursing home without being seen. The man’s dementia made it difficult for him[...]

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