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Mississippi Supreme Court Affirms Dismissal Of Claim Involving Organ Donation Process That Was Begun While Patient Was Still Alive

June 18, 2026

After being informed by a hospital in Meridian, Mississippi, that Paula Denison was dead, her family agreed to donate their mother’s organs. Accordingly, she was transported to a transplant facility in Flowood, Mississippi, to begin the organ-donation process. But as time passed, it became clear t[...]

Houston Transplant Doctor Indicted For Making False Statements In Patients’ Medical Records

March 27, 2026

The United States Attorney’s Office Southern District of Texas announced on February 5, 2026 that 66-year-old Houston physician John Stevenson Bynon Jr. has been charged with falsifying medical records which made potential transplant recipients ineligible for organ donations. According to the [...]

Man Dies From Rabies After Infected Kidney Transplant

January 23, 2026

On January 27, 2025, CDC was notified of possible rabies virus infection in a kidney transplant recipient. After CDC confirmed diagnosis, jurisdictional health departments and CDC conducted an investigation to determine the source of the infection and to identify other persons at risk. Kidney [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Discusses “Same Or Related Specialty” Requirement In Medical Malpractice Case

October 30, 2019

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) held in its unreported opinion dated October 25, 2019 that “a licensed nurse practitioner, even one who is a Certified Clinical Transplant Coordinator, is not “in the same or related specialty” as a board-cer[...]

California Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Cancerous Pancreas Implanted Into Patient

December 21, 2017

A California medical malpractice lawsuit filed on December 7, 2017 in the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Sacramento alleges that the defendants transplanted into the plaintiff a pancreas and kidney from a donor who had metastatic cancer, resulting in the plaintiff[...]

South Dakota Eye Bank Sued For Medical Malpractice

June 21, 2016

A South Dakota eye bank is being sued by two teenagers who either lost their eyesight or are at significant risk of losing their eyesight because the South Dakota eye bank supplied infected corneas that were transplanted in them. One of the plaintiffs is a 19-year-old woman who is now blind in h[...]

Massachusetts Appellate Court Vacates Dismissal Of Kidney Transplant Recipient’s Medical Malpractice Claim

April 21, 2016

On April 11, 2016, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Appeals Court (“Appellate Court”) vacated a medical malpractice tribunal’s dismissal of a kidney transplant medical malpractice lawsuit from the recipient regarding an infected kidney that was transplanted into her, holding tha[...]

Minnesota Malpractice Case For Cancerous Pancreas Transplanted Into Patient

January 9, 2015

In an unpublished opinion released on November 29, 2014, the Minnesota Court of Appeals overturned the lower court’s dismissal of a wrongful death medical malpractice lawsuit involving the transplantation of a pancreas from a donor who unknowingly had cancer into a woman who subsequently cont[...]

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[...]

Maryland Kidney Transplant Recipient Died From Rabies

March 16, 2013

A Maryland man who had received a kidney transplant one and a half years ago from a Florida donor who died in February, 2011, died on February 27, 2013 at the VA Medical Center in Washington after he became ill. Because rabies was suspected to be the cause of his death, a sample of his brain was [...]

Donated Kidney Thrown Out With The Trash During Surgery

September 1, 2012

On August 10, 2012, at Ohio’s University of Toledo Medical Center, a man voluntarily had surgery to have one of his healthy kidneys removed so that it could be implanted into his sister, who desperately needed a kidney transplant. In what appears to have been an unfathomable hospital error[...]

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