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$32.8M Pennsylvania Birth Injury Verdict For Spastic Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy

February 5, 2014

On January 17, 2014, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury found in favor of the plaintiffs and against two nurses who were the defendants whom the jurors determined to have been negligent in failing to alert the doctor performing the delivery of a baby that the baby’s heart rate had droppe[...]

Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Settled For Limbs Lost To Flesh-Eating Bacteria

September 9, 2013

On September 5, 2013, a Massachusetts woman who had all four of her limbs amputated after she contracted flesh-eating bacteria while giving birth at a local Massachusetts hospital settled her medical malpractice lawsuit for $9.5 million. The 41-year-old woman alleged in her medical malpractice [...]

West Virginia Nursing Home Settles Wrongful Death Case

July 12, 2013

A West Virginia judge approved a settlement on May 15, 2013 in a malpractice lawsuit that had been filed against a West Virginia nursing home arising out of the death of one of its residents. The nursing home malpractice lawsuit alleged that an 85-year-old woman who had been a resident of the nursi[...]

North Carolina $4 Million Verdict For Nursing Malpractice

May 26, 2013

During late April 2013, a Hertford County, North Carolina medical malpractice jury awarded $4 million to the estate of a deceased patient of a psychiatric acute care inpatient facility who died on April 24, 2009 after going into a diabetic coma on April 13, 2009 following an insulin overdose at[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Reinstates $1.1 Million Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict

March 29, 2013

On March 21, 2013, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Special Appeals”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, reinstated a Maryland medical malpractice jury’s verdict in the amount of $1,123,000 for a man who the jury found would have been admitted into a[...]

$7.4 Million Los Angeles Medical Malpractice Verdict

March 26, 2013

On March 22, 2013, a Los Angeles Superior Court medical malpractice jury returned a verdict after less than two days of deliberations in the amount of $7.4 million in favor of a 26-year-old woman who suffered severe brain injuries after treatment at Palmdale Regional Medical Center. The medical m[...]

Nurse’s Negligence Leads To Hospital Patient’s Paraplegia And Death

December 25, 2012

On the night of May 11, 2000, an insulin-dependent diabetic patient was admitted into a Louisiana hospital due to abdominal pain, back pain, and vomiting leading to his dehydration. His admitting physician diagnosed him with diabetic ketoacidosis (a condition that occurs in diabetics when the bo[...]

Florida Nursing Home Hit With $1.8 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

November 22, 2012

Earlier this week a Palm Beach County, Florida jury reached a verdict of nearly $1.8 million in favor of the estate of a former pro-wrestler who died as a result of nursing home negligence on May 23, 2008. The 72-year-old nursing home resident had end-stage senile dementia and other medical probl[...]

Skilled Nursing Facilities Received $1.5 Billion In Inappropriate Medicare Payments In 2009

November 18, 2012

Earlier this month, the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a report entitled “Inappropriate Payments to Skilled Nursing Facilities Cost Medicare More Than a Billion Dollars in 2009.” Skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) rece[...]

Children In Nursing Homes – 14-Year-Old’s Tragic Death In Florida

November 15, 2012

A profoundly disabled 14-year-old girl who suffered from cerebral palsy, seizures, and other ailments, was well-cared for at home, according to her mother. Her mother diligently pureed her foods, took care of her hygiene, and provided her daughter with love, attention, and compassion. That all ch[...]

New Mexico Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement Declared Unenforceable

November 3, 2012

In an August 16, 2012 decision from the Court of Appeals of New Mexico (“the Court”), the Court affirmed that an agreement to arbitrate claims contained in a nursing home agreement between the nursing home resident and the nursing home was “substantively unconscionable” und[...]

Iowa Nursing Home Resident’s Life Valued At $8,000

November 2, 2012

When a 64-year-old woman was admitted into an Iowa nursing home, the woman’s doctor ordered that her airway be suctioned when mucous formed in her throat. The nursing home knew that without an open airway, the woman would be unable to breath and that she would die. That is just what happen[...]

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