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Defense Verdict In Virginia Medical Malpractice Cardiac Death Case

September 2, 2015

On August 27, 2015, after a four-day trial and two-and-a-half hours of deliberations, a Virginia medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of a Virginia hospital and a nurse in a medical malpractice/wrongful death case filed by the widow of a man who was declared brain dead after he u[...]

Alabama Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict In Birth Injury Case

July 17, 2015

On June 19, 2015, after a two-week trial and three and a half hours of deliberations, an Alabama medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendants. The case involved the birth injuries suffered by a now 11-year-old boy who sustained a brain injury due to alleged medical neglig[...]

$270K California Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Following Fall From Hospital Bed

July 10, 2015

The family of a 90-year-old woman who had fallen from her hospital bed while an inpatient in a California hospital in 2012 and suffered a fractured skull, bleeding in her brain, and a mid-shaft displaced and comminuted fracture of her femur as a result, filed a California medical malpractice wro[...]

Ohio Judge Awards $28.7M In Medical Malpractice Birth Injury Case Involving Cerebral Palsy

January 14, 2015

On December 26, 2014, a judge in Ohio entered judgment in the amount of $28,745,991 in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiffs in a case in which it was alleged that the defendants’ medical negligence led to the plaintiffs’ child being born with cerebral palsy due to oxygen deprivat[...]

Neurologist Loses (Her Own) North Carolina Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

January 7, 2015

A North Carolina neurologist filed a North Carolina medical malpractice lawsuit against her former colleagues and the hospital where she used to work, alleging that she could no longer work after she received too much anesthesia during her own surgery. The neurologist, who no longer holds a medi[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Discusses Medical Malpractice Expert Qualification Issue

December 12, 2014

In its decision dated November 21, 2014, the Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Court of Appeals”) addressed the issue whether a certified nurse midwife (“CNM”) was qualified to offer expert testimony on the standard of care applicable to the defendant hospital’s RNs. In par[...]

Resident On Resident Mistreatment In Nursing Homes Affects One In Five Residents

November 10, 2014

A new study found that one in five nursing home residents (19.8%) had been involved in “mistreatment” between nursing home residents during a four-week period in 10 randomly selected nursing homes (skilled nursing facilities (SNF)) in New York State. The residents identified as having [...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Case Filed For Death Due To Overdose Of Pain Medication In Hospital

October 1, 2014

A Texas medical malpractice case was re-filed last week by the family of a 35-year-old woman who died three years ago from lethal doses of pain medications administered while she was hospitalized for lower back pain. The Texas wrongful death medical malpractice plaintiff is the surviving husband, w[...]

Wisconsin Trial Judges Question $1.15B Medical Malpractice Fund Balance

September 11, 2014

As part of Wisconsin’s medical malpractice reforms that include a limit on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases that was set at $750,000 in 2006 (after the prior $350,000 cap was declared unconstitutional by the Wisconsin Supreme Court), Wisconsin legislators created the Injured[...]

17 New York Nursing Home Employees Criminally Charged With Neglect

April 29, 2014

The New York Attorney General announced last week that 17 employees of a Buffalo, New York nursing home (eight nurses and nine certified nursing assistants) have been charged with falsifying business records in the first degree (a class E felony), endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physi[...]

California Medical Malpractice/Sexual Assault Lawsuit Filed Against Hospital

April 15, 2014

A 43-year-old woman who had just undergone nine hours of surgery to remove a pancreatic tumor in April 2013 alleges that she was sexually assaulted by a hospital employee shortly after her surgery. The lawsuit was filed on April 7, 2014 against the Los Angeles hospital where she had her surge[...]

NY Nursing Home Hidden Camera Results In Criminal Charges Against 10

March 27, 2014

A loving son who was concerned that his father was being harmed in a New York nursing home took the bold step of placing a concealed camera in his father’s nursing home room to monitor and document the care (or lack of care) his father was receiving. The recordings from the hidden camera [...]

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