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California Hospital Malpractice Results In Suffocation Death — And $100,000 Fine

February 2, 2012

According to California health regulators, the long-term nursing unit of a California hospital was responsible for the negligent medical treatment and death of an 81-year-old woman in June, 2011, who had a breathing tube in her throat. The investigative report determined that the nurse who was c[...]

West VA Medical Malpractice Death Caused By Bowel Perforation

February 1, 2012

When a 67-year-old man who was suffering from multiple sclerosis and was paralyzed from the chest down went to a local West Virginia hospital to be treated for a urinary tract infection, the last thing he or his family would have anticipated would be that the man would never make it home again. Inst[...]

Death Of Maryland Medical Malpractice Victim Does Not Affect Future Medical Expenses Award

January 31, 2012

Maryland’s highest appellate court decided on January 27, 2012 that a jury’s award of future medical expenses to a medical malpractice victim is not affected when the victim later dies. In the Maryland medical malpractice case, the parents of a newborn filed a medical malpractice claim[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict For Teen Who Lost All Four Limbs

January 30, 2012

At the time of a Florida teenager’s birth, severe intestinal problems required that her spleen and other organs be removed. As a result of not having a spleen, the teenager was more susceptible to bacterial and viral infections that required her to take medication to prevent infections. Her m[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Claim For Bugs Crawling Down Man’s Tracheal Tube

January 29, 2012

A Texas medical malpractice case that was filed on January 12, 2012 alleges that when the two sons of a hospitalized patient visited their father in a Houston, Texas area hospital last year, they were horrified to see ants and gnats crawling through their father’s tracheal tube and into the[...]

Doctor Still Practicing Medicine Despite Dozens Of Medical Malpractice Claims

January 28, 2012

Despite having dozens of medical malpractice claims filed against him for alleged substandard medical care provided in jails throughout the Midwest of the United States, an Illinois doctor and his company that have contracts to provide medical care in many correctional facilities, including those o[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Woman’s Blindness

January 25, 2012

On January 12, 2012, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $1 million in favor of a 67-year-old Maryland woman who suffered near-total blindness allegedly as a result of medical malpractice by her ophthalmologist. The verdict will be reduced to $620,000 due to the [...]

$178 Million Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict

January 24, 2012

On Friday, January 20, 2012, a Florida jury awarded $168 million in compensatory damages in a medical malpractice case; on Monday, January 23, 2012, the same medical malpractice jury awarded another $10 million in punitive damages. The medical malpractice claim involved an obese deputy’s lapar[...]

Indiana Medical Malpractice Verdict For Young Special Education Teacher

January 23, 2012

On January 20, 2012, an Indiana jury returned a medical malpractice verdict in the amount of $1.5 million in favor of a former special education teacher who lost most of her small intestine due to the alleged medical negligence of her surgeon, for his failure to perform bowel surgery when necessary [...]

Mississippi Medical Malpractice Judgment For Botched Abortion

January 21, 2012

Earlier this month, a Mississippi judge entered a default judgment in a medical malpractice case in favor of a woman and her husband for the alleged injuries sustained by the woman when the doctor performing her abortion suddenly stopped the procedure and sent her home, despite the woman h[...]

Connecticut Medical Malpractice Claim For Young Boy’s Blindness

January 20, 2012

The parents of a 7-year-old boy filed a medical malpractice claim earlier this month against the boy’s pediatrician and others claiming that the boy suffered blindness due to the alleged failure to timely and properly diagnose the boy’s bacterial meningitis. The now 9-year-old boy wa[...]

California’s Medical Malpractice Damages Cap Limits Valid Claims And Benefits Bad Doctors

January 19, 2012

California has one of the lowest medical malpractice damages caps in the United States — $250,000. This cap limits potential medical malpractice claimants from finding medical malpractice lawyers willing to take their cases, no matter how valid the claims and the seriousness of the injuries,[...]

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