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Ohio Nursing Home Negligence Case Alleges Death Due To Pressure Ulcers

August 17, 2014

The estate of a man and the man’s surviving wife have filed a nursing home negligence case in state court in Ohio seeking in excess of $25,000 against the nursing home where the man had been a resident in order to receive rehabilitative services following a fractured patella. The nursing ho[...]

Ohio Cancer Misdiagnosis Case Alleges MRI Of Wrong Knee

August 5, 2014

An Ohio woman filed a medical malpractice case during July 2014 in which she alleges that the negligence of two treating physicians in failing to timely diagnose a cancerous tumor in her left knee for a period of seven months in 2010 led to her chances of survival decreasing from 70% (when[...]

Ohio Medical Malpractice Case: When A Win Is Really A Loss

July 26, 2014

In our blog posted on July 17, 2014 that was entitled, “Ohio Medical Malpractice Trial For Sponge Left After Surgery,” we discussed an Ohio medical malpractice/wrongful death case that was in the middle of a jury trial in which the surviving husband of a woman who died 15 months after sh[...]

Ohio Medical Malpractice Trial For Sponge Left After Surgery

July 17, 2014

An Ohio medical malpractice trial started on July 14, 2014 in which it is alleged that a surgical sponge was left in a patient after a 17-hour surgery in February 2009 that ultimately led to the patient’s death 15 months later. The Ohio medical malpractice lawsuit was filed by the patient̵[...]

$14.5M Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict For Birth Injury

June 17, 2014

On June 10, 2014, an Ohio medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $14.5 million after a two-week trial, for the alleged birth injuries suffered during delivery when the baby suffered a brain hemorrhage in utero. The verdict included $5 million for the [...]

Cleveland Clinic Neurosurgeon Wins $7.7M Medical Malpractice Verdict (Against Cleveland Clinic)

April 21, 2014

On March 20, 2014, after a two-and-a-half-week trial and one day of jury deliberations, a Cuyahoga County, Ohio medical malpractice jury awarded a former Cleveland Clinic neurosurgeon $7.7 million in medical malpractice damages for the allegedly negligent eye surgery performed at the Cleveland Clini[...]

$2.7M Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Lung Disease

February 10, 2014

In December 2013, an Ohio medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2,700,000 in favor of a woman and her family for the woman developing terminal lung disease as a result of a combination of medications she was prescribed. While the results of an abnormal chest x-ray to che[...]

Supreme Court Of Ohio Rules In Favor Of Medical Malpractice Plaintiff

December 7, 2013

In its written decision issued on December 4, 2013, the Supreme Court of Ohio held that a trial court should exercise great caution in sustaining a motion for a directed verdict on the opening statement of counsel, and although a trial court is not required to consider allegations contained in th[...]

University Of Cincinnatti Settles Paralyzed Woman’s Medical Malpractice Lawsuit For $2.3 Million

November 9, 2013

On October 24, 2013, the Court of Claims of Ohio approved the $2.3 million settlement reached between the University of Cincinnati and a woman who became paralyzed as a result of medical malpractice. It took just over six years from the date that the woman filed her medical malpractice claim until [...]

Podiatrist Malpractice Lawsuit Filed In Texas

October 20, 2013

On September 20, 2013, an Arkansas woman filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in Texas against her former podiatrist, claiming that he negligently performed surgery on her right foot that left her with painful and permanent injuries. The podiatry medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that the podiatr[...]

Ohio Nursing Home Verdict For Suffocation Death

September 15, 2013

On September 9, 2013, after approximately two weeks of trial, an Ohio jury awarded $375,000 to the family of a 70-year-old nursing home resident who suffocated and died when the electricity to the nursing home went out during a storm, causing his breathing machine to stop functioning. The res[...]

Hospital That Threw Out Healthy Donor Kidney Denies It Was Negligent

September 2, 2013

The University of Toledo Medical Center (“UTMC”) in Ohio acknowledges that its nurse threw out as trash the healthy donor kidney that a brother had lovingly donated to his ailing sister but contests that it was negligent in doing so. UTMC is requesting that the medical malpractice law[...]

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