Hospital Mold Deaths Linked To Outside Laundry Facility
February 9, 2017
A confidential report commissioned by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (“UPMC”) in September 2015 following the mold-related deaths of three implant patients at two of its hospital facilities reportedly found mold present at its outside contracted laundry facility that handled[...]
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Facebook Post Helps To Torpedo Lyme Disease Misdiagnosis Case
January 7, 2017
In its decision filed on December 22, 2016, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Appellate Court”) held that reasonable minds could not differ in the conclusion that the medical malpractice plaintiff knew, or reasonably should have known, between July and September, 2009, that her long-s[...]
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$19.3M Pennsylvania Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Settlement
January 2, 2017
In December 2016, a Pennsylvania court approved a $19.3 million birth injury medical malpractice settlement that involved the alleged negligent delivery of a baby on December 13, 2012 at Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania, that left the child with a profound and permanent brain injury t[...]
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$8.78M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Loss Of Legs
October 16, 2016
At the conclusion of a three-week Pennsylvania medical malpractice trial that ended on October 6, 2016, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded $8.78 million to a 52-year-old man who lost his legs due to a series of negligent acts in a Pennsylvania hospital that led to sepsis and the need to[...]
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