Medical Malpractice Victim Archives - Page 15 of 19

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Did A Generic Version Of A Name-Brand Drug Cause A Man’s Death?

February 13, 2012

Generic versions of name-brand prescription drugs are supposed to be “just as good” and just as effective as the name-brand drugs for which they are substituted. Generic drugs (“generics”) are often preferred by health insurance companies and by many patients because they ten[...]

Philadelphia Emergency Room Malpractice Leads To Man’s Death — And His Watch Stolen From His Wrist

February 12, 2012

A 63-year-old man who felt pain going down his right side walked several blocks from his home to a local Philadelphia hospital emergency room where the emergency room hospital staff registered him. He spoke with other waiting patients in the emergency room for about twenty minutes. About 80 minutes[...]

Minnesota Medical Malpractice Caused Choking Death

February 9, 2012

A Minnesota nursing home resident choked to death on March 18, 2011 while eating fruit from his dinner tray because the nursing home staff failed to supervise the 90-year-old man while he was eating, as they were required to do because of the man’s known swallowing problems. A nursing ass[...]

Kansas Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Turns Criminal

February 8, 2012

A licensed practical nurse (LPN) who worked in a Topeka, Kansas nursing home was supposed to administer morphine to a 105-year-old nursing home resident who had dementia and was in severe chronic pain but instead the LPN diluted the patient’s vial of morphine with water. The incident happen[...]

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