New Mexico $2 Million Verdict For Bad Back Surgery
September 24, 2012
On September 7, 2012, a medical malpractice jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico returned its verdict in the amount of $2 million after five days of trial and deliberating for less than three hours, in favor of a man whose back surgery in May, 2008 resulted in the man suffering cardiac arrest 36 hours late[...]
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Hospital Error Rates For Chronically Ill Children
September 23, 2012
In a study of data regarding children who were hospitalized during 2006 in 38 states in the United States, researchers found that 44.1 % of hospitalized children had a least one chronic condition such as cancer, asthma, or digestive disorders (the researchers found that 22.3% of children who were[...]
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Maryland Surgery Center Closed Due To Infections
September 22, 2012
A cosmetic surgery center located in Baltimore County, Maryland that refers to itself as a “med spa” was forced to close on September 19, 2012 by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (“DHMH”) and the Baltimore County Department of Health after three of its lip[...]
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San Francisco $1.138 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict
September 18, 2012
On September 12, 2012, a San Francisco, California medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the total amount of $1,138,000 in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiffs. The medical malpractice trial lasted one month in the Superior Court during which the medical malpractice jury heard testim[...]
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Tennessee Nursing Home Fined For Resident’s Rape
September 2, 2012
The Fairpark Healthcare Center nursing home in Maryville, Tennessee, which is owned by Kindred Healthcare Inc. (“Kindred”), has been fined $3,000 by the Tennessee Department of Health and is being fined $6,000 per day by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”)[...]
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Donated Kidney Thrown Out With The Trash During Surgery
September 1, 2012
On August 10, 2012, at Ohio’s University of Toledo Medical Center, a man voluntarily had surgery to have one of his healthy kidneys removed so that it could be implanted into his sister, who desperately needed a kidney transplant. In what appears to have been an unfathomable hospital error[...]
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Oregon Medical Malpractice Claim Against Kaiser Doctor
August 24, 2012
During the summer 0f 2009, an Oregon man was having problems with his right wrist and therefore sought a medical opinion and medical care from a doctor employed by Kaiser Permanente. According to the medical malpractice case filed on his behalf on July 16, 2012 in the Oregon Circuit Courts for Mari[...]
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