Missouri $1.5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict
July 21, 2012
Earlier this month, a Missouri medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in a medical malpractice case that alleged that an 88-year-old woman who was a resident of a Missouri nursing home was left unattended and standing alone in her room after an aide helped her with [...]
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Dismissal Of Ohio Medical Malpractice Case Upheld
July 17, 2012
In an appeal of the dismissal of an Ohio medical malpractice case, the Court of Appeals of Ohio upheld the dismissal in its opinion filed on July 10, 2012. The trial court had dismissed the medical malpractice case because the medical malpractice plaintiff allegedly had failed to comply with an Oh[...]
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West Virginia Medical Malpractice Claim For Hearing Loss
July 14, 2012
A medical malpractice plaintiff in West Virginia filed his medical malpractice claim against a physician and the physician’s medical practice on June 18, 2012, alleging that the physician failed to timely and properly diagnosis the man’s complaints of hearing loss. The medical malpra[...]
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Louisiana Medical Malpractice Claim For Permanent Paralysis
July 5, 2012
A man was admitted into the hospital for a liver transplant. While he was recuperating from his surgery, he was placed in a recliner for 7 to 8 hours. The medical staff then attempted to transfer the man from the recliner into his bed by using bed sheets. During the transfer, the man heard and felt[...]
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One In Five New Nursing Home Residents Fall In First Thirty Days
June 30, 2012
A recently published study that reviewed data from Medicare and Medicaid involving more than 230,000 new nursing home residents in almost 10,000 nursing homes throughout the United States during 2006 found that 21% of them fell at least one time during their first 30 days in the nursing home. Falls[...]
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$90.5 Million West Virginia Nursing Home Verdict Challenged
June 29, 2012
On June 28, 2012, the lawyers for the parties in a nursing home negligence case that resulted in a jury verdict in the amount of $90.5 million ($10 million for the alleged wrongful death of a nursing home resident and $80 million in punitive damages, based on claims of ordinary negligence, medical [...]
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