Medical Misdiagnosis Archives - Page 15 of 23

Kansas Whistleblower Lawsuit Alleges Pathologist Misdiagnosed Cancer, Leading To Removal Of Healthy Organ

July 14, 2016

A physician employed at a Kansas hospital filed a whistleblower lawsuit on July 1, 2016 against his hospital, alleging that the head of the hospital’s pathology department misread a tissue slide as showing cancer that resulted in the patient having a healthy essential organ surgically removed.[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Against Radiologist Who Missed Brain Tumor

June 28, 2016

A Huntington, West Virginia couple have filed a West Virginia medical malpractice lawsuit against a radiologist and the radiology practice that employed him, alleging that the radiologist missed a brain tumor on a brain scan that he read that led to the untreated brain cancer growing until it could [...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Smoker’s Lung Cancer Death

June 24, 2016

On June 8, 2016, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the defendant doctor, after only a short period of jury deliberations following a medical malpractice trial that lasted a little over one week, finding that the plaintiff had failed to prove that the defendant [...]

$4.58M Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Emergency Room Physician

June 15, 2016

In mid-May 2016, an Ohio medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff after fifteen days of trial, finding that the defendant emergency room physician negligently misdiagnosed a 33-year-old married nurse, who was the mother to three minor children, as suffering from a migr[...]

$7.7M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Pulmonary Embolism

June 6, 2016

On May 20, 2016, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the estate of a 50-year-old woman who died due to undiagnosed and untreated pulmonary emboli after being negligently treated by the defendant doctor at the defendant hospital. The Philadelphia medical malpracti[...]

Pennsylvania Hospital Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Missed Hernia Led To Man’s Death

May 27, 2016

A medical malpractice case filed against a Pennsylvania hospital and others alleges that the negligent failure of at least five doctors to properly assess the medical condition of a man who came to the hospital’s emergency room complaining of constipation and abdominal pain led to his death ni[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Hospital Death

May 21, 2016

On April 20, 2016, a Florida medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a hospital physician in a Florida medical negligence lawsuit that alleged that the failure to diagnose a woman’s infection was the cause of her death. The hospital where the woman had died had settled the Fl[...]

$6M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For CT Scan Mix-Up

May 14, 2016

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury returned its verdict on April 28, 2016 in the amount of nearly $6 million in favor of a woman who underwent unnecessary abdominal surgery after a radiologist read another patient’s CT scan images as the woman’s scan, thereby resulting in the misdia[...]

Does Chronic Lyme Disease Exist?

April 22, 2016

One of the most common medical malpractice inquiries we receive are from people throughout the United States who are suffering chronic and often debilitating symptoms that they firmly believe are due to the unnecessary and negligent delay in diagnosing their Lyme disease and/or the undue delay or fa[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Jury Returns Compromised Verdict For The Plaintiff

April 12, 2016

The members of a Georgia medical malpractice jury apparently could not all agree whether to find for the plaintiff or the defendant hospital in a medical malpractice case, and therefore returned its verdict on February 29, 2016, after a nine-day trial and two days of deliberations, in favor of the[...]

$11.6M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Radiologist For Misread CT Scan

March 2, 2016

A New York medical malpractice jury awarded a local business man $11.6 million in damages as a result of a radiologist’s medical negligence in failing to properly read and report the results of the plaintiff’s CT scan of his brain that evidently showed that a major blood vessel that sup[...]

$10M Alabama Medical Malpractice Verdict For Missed Meningitis Diagnosis In Infant

February 17, 2016

On February 12, 2016, an Alabama medical malpractice jury awarded a seriously injured child and his family $10 million for the missed diagnosis of bacterial meningitis when the child was three months old, resulting in the child’s permanent brain injury. As a result of the alleged negligent fai[...]

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