Montana Judge OKs Wrongful Birth Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
June 25, 2012
On June 18, 2012, a Montana state judge gave approval to a medical malpractice case filed in October, 2011 that alleges a claim for wrongful birth. The medical malpractice plaintiffs claimed that had they been advised that their baby would be born with cystic fibrosis, they would have terminated [...]
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Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Kidney Failure
June 19, 2012
On May 18, 2012, a medical malpractice jury in Georgia awarded just over $1 million to a man who had filed a medical malpractice lawsuit that claimed that his doctor had failed to order necessary blood tests and urine tests that should have been ordered and would have prevented the patient fro[...]
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New Vascular Testing Guidelines
June 18, 2012
The American College of Cardiology, through its Foundation, recently reviewed common indications when ultrasound and physiological testing (defined as “evaluation of the peripheral circulation based on measurement of limb blood pressures with pulse volume recordings or Doppler waveforms, or [...]
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Unnecessary Chemotherapy — Was It Medical Malpractice?
June 16, 2012
When a 5-year-old girl had swelling in her throat that did not go away, her mother brought her to a local emergency room. The doctors who examined the little girl suspected that she had a cancerous tumor and ordered a biopsy. The results of the biopsy were inconclusive, so doctors referred the fami[...]
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Oregon Medical Malpractice Wrongful Birth Verdict
March 20, 2012
On March 9, 2012, an Oregon medical malpractice jury returned a verdict after a ten-day trial in the amount of almost $3 million in favor of the parents of a Down syndrome daughter that the 12-member jury determined would help cover the extra costs of caring for their daughter that the parents c[...]
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Pennsylvania Inmate Medical Malpractice Verdict
March 18, 2012
On February 17, 2012, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded a former Pennsylvania prison inmate $312,000 for the injuries he sustained as a result of the alleged medical malpractice committed by a for-profit company that had contracted with the State Correctional Institution in Albion, Pe[...]
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We’re Celebrating One Full Year Of Daily Blog Postings!
March 4, 2012
Well, we have reached a significant milestone — one complete year of our daily blog postings (we started daily posting in our Blog on March 5, 2011 and have posted every day since). When we first started to blog, we thought that it might be difficult to find relevant, interesting informat[...]
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