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$1.5M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Settlement For Delayed Diagnosis Of Lung Cancer In Smoker

June 15, 2025

A Massachusetts medical malpractice claim involving a 68-year-old woman with a 20-year history of smoking, whose diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer was allegedly delayed for at least 25 months due to the medical negligence of her primary care physician (PCP) and a radiologist who allegedly fail[...]

$1.5M Medical Malpractice Settlement Involving Rare Pregnancy Complication Leading To Brain Damage

June 14, 2025

On January 15, 2025, a Virginia medical malpractice claim involving a 21-year-old woman who was pregnant with her first baby in 2021 and who suffered brain damage as a result of a rare complication of pregnancy, was settled for $1.5 million. The Virginia medical malpractice claim was against her OBG[...]

Iowa Agrees To Pay $1.4M For Woman Who Died After Falling From Bed In Hospital

May 31, 2025

Bounthath Phetsomphou was 75-years-old when she had surgery on January 15, 2019 to remove a cancerous lesion in her cheek at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Immediately after the successful surgery, she was placed in the Intensive Care Unit (“ICU”). Shortly afterwards, she [...]

$25M Verdict Against Washington State Jail Health Care Provider

May 25, 2025

On April 4, 2025, a Washington state jury returned its verdict in the amount of $25 million in favor of a man who was in custody at Pierce County Jail in Tacoma, Washington when his untreated blood clotting led to his foot turning black and gangrenous, and resulted in a below the knee amputation. Th[...]

$2M Settlement Reached For Teen Who Died In Jail Custody Due To Untreated Drug Overdose

May 24, 2025

It has been reported that the mother of a 19-year-old woman who died while in custody at the Rolette County Jail in Rolla, North Dakota, from a drug overdose that was not properly treated has accepted the $2 million settlement offer from the county defendant. The mother filed her lawsuit in 2022 for[...]

$375K Medical Malpractice Settlement For Negligence Following Jaw Surgery In South Carolina

May 9, 2025

A South Carolina woman had jaw surgery (Lefort 1 osteotomy and bilateral sagittal split osteotomy) on June 16, 2020 at the Medical University of South Carolina (“MUSC”). She alleged in her South Carolina medical malpractice lawsuit that her medical providers failed to properly investigat[...]

$9M Michigan Medical Malpractice Settlement For Twin Who Suffered Catastrophic Injuries Due To Delayed Delivery

May 3, 2025

The pregnant mother of twins went to the hospital at 28 weeks of pregnancy complaining of abdominal pain that began three hours before her arrival. She was seen by a physician’s assistant who had difficulty finding fetal heartbeats. A first-year resident was summoned and he too could not find feta[...]

$10M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Settlement For Brain Injury To Small Child After Ventilator Became Disconnected At Home

April 20, 2025

On October 7, 2024, a judge approved a settlement in the amount of $10 million in a New Jersey medical malpractice case in which the parents of a twenty-month-old child alleged that an in-home health care provider who was a licensed practical nurse (LPN) negligently failed to correct a ventilator is[...]

$16M Medical Malpractice Settlement For 16-Year-Old’s Cancer Death

April 19, 2025

In December 2024, a $16 million settlement was reportedly reached with a Pennsylvania hospital for the death of a 16-year-old who had gone to the emergency room on November 3, 2022 complaining that he had chest pain and had difficulty breathing. A chest x-ray showed a potential mass and the radiolog[...]

$2.3M Michigan Medical Malpractice Settlement For PCP’s Failure To Diagnose Bacterial Infection

April 13, 2025

A 22-year-old went to his primary care physician (PCP) complaining of symptoms consistent with a bacterial infection. He saw his PCP for weeks with the same complaints but the PCP misdiagnosed him as suffering from a viral infection. During that time, the plaintiff was also seen in a hospital that a[...]

$9M Michigan Medical Malpractice Settlement For Premature Baby’s Brain Damage

April 4, 2025

The parents of a premature baby have settled their Michigan medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that medical providers’ negligence led to their baby suffering severe and permanent brain damage that precludes him from living an independent life. The baby was born with TAPVR (total anomalous pu[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Settled For Man Who Lost Limbs After Kidney Stone Removal Procedure

March 30, 2025

A Florida medical malpractice lawsuit filed by a 49-year-old man who had been rendered a quadriplegic as the result of a car accident in 1998 but nonetheless was self-reliant and living independently despite limited use of his arms and being confined to a wheelchair, alleged that his limbs had to be[...]

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