Who Will Pay The $190M Johns Hopkins Settlement?
July 31, 2014
Last week, Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore (“Hopkins”) announced that it had reached a $190 million settlement (which had received preliminary court approval but still needed final court approval) with over 8,000 patients of the Johns Hopkins East Baltimore Medical Center who were se[...]
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$2.3M Liposuction Malpractice Settlement
June 6, 2014
A New York plastic surgeon has reached a settlement with the surviving spouse and children of a 32-year-old woman who had undergone a liposuction procedure in the Manhattan plastic surgeon’s office that allegedly resulted in her death. Two days after the June 25, 2009 liposuction procedure, th[...]
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Maryland Stent Claim Settled
May 17, 2014
A Maryland medical malpractice case against a former cardiologist and a local hospital in Maryland that had been filed in September 2012 was dismissed as a result of a settlement order that was entered on April 30, 2014. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. The former doctor is presently [...]
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Fungal Meningitis Claims Settled For $100 Million
May 8, 2014
On May 6, 2014, a proposed $100 million settlement was filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Boston, Massachusetts regarding the claims of 3,300 claimants arising out of the allegedly contaminated steroid injections manufactured by the New England Compounding Center (“NECC”) that was loc[...]
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$37M Settlement Of Maryland Stent Claims Announced
April 9, 2014
It has been reported that upwards of 273 former patients of a Baltimore hospital and its former cardiologist will receive at least $134,000 each (before attorneys’ fees and costs are deducted) to settle their claims against the hospital that alleged that the patients had medically unnecess[...]
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