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What’s The Difference Between A Bad Outcome And Medical Malpractice?

December 10, 2024

All medical care and treatment carry risks of an unexpected outcome that is harmful to the patient. For example, when a surgical procedure is recommended to a patient, the medical provider is required to explain to the patient the various alternatives of medical treatment that are available as well [...]

FDA Warns That Using Fat-Dissolving Injections That Are Not FDA Approved Can Be Harmful

March 18, 2024

Injection lipolysis (“lipo” = fat, “lysis” = breakdown) is a nonsurgical procedure that involves administering a series of injections under the skin to break down fat cells in the areas around the injection sites. FDA has received reports of consumers who have used fat-dissolving injections [...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Rules State Immune From Lawsuit Alleging Failure To Report Results Of Routine Newborn Testing

October 1, 2023

N.J.S.A. 26:2-110 and -111, as they existed in June 2001 at the time of Jayson Sugden’s birth, required the New Jersey Department of Health to test all infants born in New Jersey for “hypothyroidism, galactosemia, phenylketonuria, and other preventable biochemical disorders which may cau[...]

$308K Paid By Yale To Resolve Violations Of Controlled Substances Act Allegations

January 13, 2023

Yale Paid $308K after violating the Controlled Substances Act: The United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced on October 4, 2022 that Yale University, on behalf of Yale Medicine and the Yale Fertility Center, has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal govern[...]

Texas Appellate Court Holds DNA Testing Facility May Be Held Liable For False Paternity Test

October 10, 2022

Court Holds DNA Testing Facility May Be Held Liable For False Paternity Test: In its July 21, 2022 Memorandum Opinion, the Court of Appeals Second Appellate District of Texas at Forth Forth (“Texas Appellate Court”) held that the trial court erred in granting summary judgment for the def[...]

Florida Appellate Court Holds Negligence Case Should Have Been Dismissed For Failure To Follow Medical Malpractice Presuit Procedures

July 5, 2020

The District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida Fourth District (“Florida Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion dated May 20, 2020, “We agree with Defendants that the complaint sounds in medical negligence and that the trial court departed from the essential requir[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Allows Wrongful Death Claim For Aborted Fetus

May 17, 2020

In its opinion filed on March 31, 2020, the Appellate Court of Illinois First District First Division (“”Illinois Appellate Court”) stated, “we answer no to the certified question that asked whether section 2.2 of the Wrongful Death Act bars a cause of action or recovery unde[...]

North Carolina Joins Other States In Providing Medical Malpractice Immunity During Coronavirus Pandemic

May 6, 2020

North Carolina joins an increasing number of U.S. states providing health care providers with immunity from medical malpractice claims during the coronavirus pandemic, except for “gross negligence, reckless misconduct, or intentional infliction of harm by the health care facility or health car[...]

How Do I Know If My Injury Is Due To Medical Malpractice?

December 7, 2019

“How do I know if my injury is due to medical malpractice?” This is a question we receive often. Our usual response is if you have reason to ask the question, you have reason to explore whether someone is responsible for causing your unanticipated or unexpected harm suffered as a result [...]

Failure To Check Patient’s Identity, Medical Records Mixup Result In Abortion Provided To Wrong Woman

October 10, 2019

A woman in South Korea who was six weeks pregnant went to a clinic to have a nutritional injection. Instead, she received an unwanted abortion because the medical staff at the clinic failed to check her identity and there was a mixup in the medicals records between her and a woman who had gone to [&[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms $3,364,017.40 Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misinterpreted EKG

August 3, 2019

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Pennsylvania Appellate Court”), in its Memorandum Opinion filed on July 19, 2019, affirmed a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $3,364,017.40, stating, “It is undisputed that in 2014,[...]

Georgia Couple’s Lawsuit Alleges Hospital Flushed Their Stillborn Fetus Down The Toilet

March 26, 2019

A Georgia couple is suing a Georgia hospital for $2 million, alleging that in May 2018, while the woman was 16 weeks pregnant, she went to the defendant hospital where she delivered her stillborn fetus while sitting on the toilet in the hospital ER, and that a nurse and doctor then flushed the fetus[...]

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