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North Carolina Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Hospital Negligence After Patient’s Surgery Led To Her Death

February 11, 2024

A North Carolina medical malpractice lawsuit filed on November 27, 2023 alleges that the medical staff at Defendant MH Mission Hospital in Ashville, North Carolina failed to provide appropriate care for a patient who underwent an anetrior cervical disectomy, fusion, and removal of anterior cervical [...]

$1.36M North Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Following Colonoscopy

May 15, 2023

$1.36M For Death Following Colonoscopy: On April 3, 2023, a North Carolina medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1.36 million for the estate of a 70-year-old man who died shortly after undergoing a screening colonoscopy. The defendants were a CRNA and an anesthesiology prac[...]

North Carolina Physician Found Guilty Of Re-Using Single-Use Medical Device During 1,400 Surgeries

March 20, 2023

Physician Found Guilty Of Re-Using Single-Use Medical Device 1400 times: After a three-week federal jury trial, and 5 hours of jury deliberation, Anita Louise Jackson, 59, was found guilty on charges of adulterating medical devices for use on patients with intent to defraud and mislead, fabricating [...]

North Carolina Appellate Court Rules Minor’s Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Was Filed Too Late

November 11, 2022

Minor’s Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Too Late: The Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“North Carolina Appellate Court”) stated in its opinion filed on August 16, 2022 in a North Carolina medical malpractice case involving a thirteen-year-old minor allegedly injured as a result of med[...]

12 Long Years To Obtain Justice In North Carolina Medical Malpractice Case

September 28, 2022

How long does it take to obtain justice in medical malpractice cases? A North Carolina medical malpractice case that was recently settled for $5 million shows how difficult and how long it may take to obtain some semblance of justice. The Hendersonville Lightening reported on July 4, 2022 the follow[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

North Carolina Supreme Court Extends Medical Malpractice Liability To Nurses

August 27, 2022

In its opinion filed on August 19, 2022, the Supreme Court of North Carolina (“Court”) overturned 90-years of precedent to extend medical malpractice liability to nurses: “The trial court’s evidentiary ruling, and the Court of Appeals’ affirmance of it, was dictated by the appl[...]

North Carolina Appellate Court Finds Continuing Course Of Treatment Doctrine Did Not Apply In Dental Malpractice Case

May 12, 2022

The Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“North Carolina Appellate Court”) discussed the continuing course of treatment doctrine in its opinion filed on March 1, 2022 in a North Carolina dental malpractice case where the plaintiff alleged that during a wisdom tooth extraction performed by[...]

North Carolina Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Surgeon Who Implanted Gore-Tex Adhesion Barrier During Fibroid Surgery

April 20, 2022

The Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“North Carolina Appellate Court”) affirmed in its published opinion filed on February 15, 2022 that summary judgment was properly entered in favor of the defendant surgeon involving claims that the surgeon improperly failed to advise the plaintiff [...]

North Carolina Nursing Home Had Three Staff For 98 Residents When Two Discovered Dead

April 18, 2022

Pine Ridge Health and Rehabilitation Center in Thomasville, North Carolina was visited by police officers on January 16, 2022 during a snowstorm after receiving calls that staff could not be contacted by telephone and had not been seen by some residents of the facility. When Thomasville police offic[...]

North Carolina Nursing Home Cited For As Many As 100 Maggots Infesting Dementia Patient’s Wound

October 29, 2021

The Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Statement of Deficiencies dated September 20, 2021 for University Place Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Charlotte, North Carolina stated: “Nurse Aide #1 … revealed [that] on 8/29/21, she reposit[...]

North Carolina Appellate Court Rules Laser Hair Removal Claim Was Medical Malpractice Claim

September 3, 2021

The Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“North Carolina Appellate Court”) ruled in its July 20, 2021 opinion that the plaintiff’s claim regarding negligent laser hair removal was a North Carolina medical malpractice claim and not a claim of ordinary negligence: “We hold that [...]

North Carolina Appellate Court Reinstates Mental Health Malpractice Lawsuit

August 21, 2021

In January 2017, Oliver Funez was involuntarily committed to a public hospital in Chapel Hill, North Carolina for six weeks where he was treated by Defendant Brian Robbins and other medical staff. Prior to his admission to the hospital, Oliver had displayed violent and aggressive behavior, manifeste[...]

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