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$3.34M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis Of Perforated Bowel

July 15, 2014

A Philadelphia County medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of a 27-year-old man in the amount of $3.34 million after determining that a hospital and a physician were medically negligent in their failure to timely diagnose the man’s perforated bowel following surgery to address [...]

New Mexico Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Indian Activist’s Death

July 4, 2014

The surviving wife of an Indian activist who died in 2012 at the age of 72, allegedly as a result of the negligent failure to diagnose his esophageal cancer in 2012, has filed a New Mexico medical malpractice case in state court against the hospital where the alleged cancer misdiagnosis (failure to [...]

New Mexico Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Missed Cancer Diagnosis

May 31, 2014

A New Mexico woman was pro-active and attentive to protecting her own health when she arranged to have a screening mammogram in 2007 at a local radiology practice. She was surprised when she was told by the radiologist that a spot the size of a nickel was found in her right breast but she felt [&hel[...]

Illinois Medical Malpractice Case Alleges Misdiagnosis Cancer Treated With Smuggled Drugs

May 28, 2014

An Illinois medical malpractice lawsuit has been re-filed by a woman who was misdiagnosed with cancer and then treated by her doctor with unapproved drugs imported from Turkey. The woman had anemia for which she underwent a bone marrow biopsy on January 19, 2009. The results of the biopsy indicated [...]

$4M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Four Years Of Misdiagnosis And Unnecessary Treatment

April 19, 2014

For four years, a 42-year-old New York man underwent biweekly blood treatments, had chest surgery to remove his thymus gland, and gained 80 pounds and became hypertensive due to medication that he took for a diagnosed neuromuscular disorder (myasthenia gravis) that he did not have. He endured 74 un[...]

Study Finds 12 Million In U.S. Misdiagnosed Every Year; One-Half Are Potentially Harmed

April 18, 2014

In a study published on April 16, 2014 in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Quality & Safety, researchers estimated that 12 million people in the United States are misdiagnosed in an outpatient clinic setting each year (the researchers calculated the incidence of new cases of misdiagnosis i[...]

Kentucky Supreme Court Rules Medical Malpractice Defendant’s License Status Inadmissible

March 26, 2014

A Kentucky woman alleged that a radiologist misread three CT scans of her lungs and failed to identify and report lesions, one in either lung, that ultimately resulted in the delay of her lung cancer diagnosis. The woman’s experts testified at trial that the lesions were identifiable as [...]

$1.9M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Verdict For Unnecessary Cancer Treatment

March 21, 2014

On March 11, 2014, a Worchester, Massachusetts medical malpractice jury found in favor of the estate of a man who was told in 2003 that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after which he twice underwent chemotherapy and later had a stem cell transplant. The medical malpractice jury’s verdic[...]

Massachusetts Emergency Room Malpractice Results In $2.925M Verdict

March 15, 2014

On March 3, 2014, a Massachusetts medical malpractice jury awarded $2.925 million to the mother of a 23-year-old man who died as a result of alleged misdiagnosis in a hospital emergency room. The verdict was reached after five days of trial. The medical malpractice defendant was the emergency room [...]

$4M Virginia Medical Mapractice Verdict Against Family Practitioner

March 3, 2014

On February 27, 2014, a Lynchburg, Virginia medical malpractice jury rendered its verdict in the amount of $4 million against a family practitioner who the jury found to have been negligent in his treatment of his patient in 2007 that resulted in the loss of a large portion of the patient’[...]

Medical Malpractice Claims Involving Undiagnosed Heart Disease In Women

February 20, 2014

The Doctors Company (the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer in the United States) conducted a study of closed medical malpractice claims involving undiagnosed heart disease in women and found that in 61% of the medical malpractice claims, the patient died when her heart conditio[...]

New Doctor Dies Due to Medical Negligence

January 15, 2014

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice lawsuit filed by the parents of a new physician who graduated from medical school on May 11, 2013 alleges that the 26-year-old woman died on May 29, 2013 due to the negligence of a hospital where she had sought medical treatment. The woman went to the hospital beca[...]

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