New Mexico Prison Physician Sued For 15th Time
January 8, 2016
A former New Mexico prison physician was sued on December 21, 2015, for the fifteenth time, for alleged sexual assault for allegedly performing unnecessary and intrusive rectal exams on inmates at two New Mexico prisons where he worked from 2010 to 2012. The same New Mexico physician has been sued b[...]
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New Mexico Supreme Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Case
September 24, 2014
In a written opinion issued by the Supreme Court of the State of New Mexico (“New Mexico Supreme Court”) on September 18, 2014, the New Mexico Supreme Court reinstated a medical malpractice case that had ended in summary judgment being entered in favor of the defendant hospital because [...]
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New Mexico $2 Million Verdict For Bad Back Surgery
September 24, 2012
On September 7, 2012, a medical malpractice jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico returned its verdict in the amount of $2 million after five days of trial and deliberating for less than three hours, in favor of a man whose back surgery in May, 2008 resulted in the man suffering cardiac arrest 36 hours late[...]
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