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Washington Chiropractor Charged With Inappropriate Sexual Contact Involving 21 Women

June 25, 2021

It has been reported that 61-year-old Washington chiropractor Dr. Kenneth Parker was charged in late May 2021 with eight counts of felony sexual misconduct by a health care provider. He was arrested that same month on six counts of indecent liberties. It is reported that three of 21 women who came f[...]

Seattle Assisted Living Facility To Pay $8M To Settle Sexual Abuse Lawsuit

April 24, 2021

The Associated Press (AP) reported that a Seattle assisted living facility’s insurance company has agreed to settle a lawsuit that alleged that the assisted living facility’s lax supervision of an employee resulted in the ability of the employee to repeatedly rape and sexually abuse a vu[...]

USC Announces $852M Settlement Of State Claims Involving George Tyndall

April 9, 2021

The University of Southern California (“USC”) announced in late March 2021 that it had reached an $852 million settlement agreement with 710 former patients of George Tyndall (“Tyndall”) who filed suit in California state court. Combined with the $215 million federal class ac[...]

Maryland Pediatrician Sentenced To One Year Incarceration For Sexually Abusing Patient, Faces Many Additional Charges For Other Patients

January 31, 2020

On November 1, 2019, a long-time Maryland pediatrician was convicted of second-degree assault and fourth-degree sexual offense of an 18-year-old patient who had been his patient since she was a baby. The 69-year-old Maryland pediatrician was found not guilty of second-degree rape, reportedly because[...]

Man Sues Former Mental Health Therapist For Allegedly Seeking To Engage In Sexual Relationship

September 28, 2019

An Oregon man who was being treated for PTSD by a mental health therapist has filed a mental health malpractice lawsuit against his former therapist and her employer, seeking $2.1 million in damages, for allegedly violating her professional standards by seeking to start a sexual relationship with hi[...]

Former Nursing Home Employee Convicted Of Raping 85-Year-Old Resident Has Been Re-Sentenced As Sexual Predator

September 26, 2019

A 56-year-old man who worked in an Ohio nursing home was convicted of raping an 85-year-old resident in 2000. The victim was reportedly one of three nursing home residents that he told his girlfriend that he had raped while he was working at the nursing home. Investigators have been unable to identi[...]

Federal Judge Denies Sanctions For Sexual Assault Victim’s Deletion Of Her Facebook Account During Litigation Against Hospital

September 14, 2019

The United States District Court Middle District of Florida Fort Myers Division (“Federal District Court”), in its Opinion And Order dated August 26, 2019, denied the defendant hospital’s motion for spoliation sanctions against the plaintiff, who alleged that she was sexually assau[...]

Arizona Nursing Home Resident In Vegetative State For Over 14 Years Gives Birth At The Nursing Home

January 13, 2019

An Arizona nursing home resident who has been in a vegetative state for fourteen years since she experienced a near-drowning event, and who has been a resident of the Arizona nursing home for at least ten years, unexpectedly gave birth at the nursing home on December 29, 2018. A source reportedly st[...]

$7.5M Pennsylvania Nursing Home Sexual Assault Verdict

May 24, 2018

A Pennsylvania nursing home sexual assault jury returned its verdict against a Pennsylvania nursing home in the amount of $7.5 million in compensatory damages after four hours of jury deliberations following a nearly two-week trial. The May 3, 2018 verdict assigned 85% responsibility to the defendan[...]

Hospital Kept Surgeon On Staff Despite Allegations Of Raping Two Patients

January 20, 2018

The Cleveland Clinic allegedly kept a colorectal surgeon on its staff, treating patients, despite complaints from two of his patients that he raped them. The Cleveland Clinic reportedly settled one of the patient’s claims by paying a confidential settlement. The surgeon allegedly anally raped [...]

Failure Of Multiple Utah Medical Facilities To Report Nurse’s Sexual Assaults Over 10 Year Period Resulted In 12 Victims

January 15, 2018

A Utah nurse who has allegedly sexually assaulted at least 12 women at four different Utah medical facilities over the period of ten years could have been stopped if they had properly reported his misconduct to the appropriate authorities, according to one victim’s Utah medical malpractice law[...]

Iowa Supreme Court Rules State Has No Liability For Sexual Assault Of Nursing Home Resident

April 17, 2017

In its opinion filed on April 14, 2017, the Supreme Court of Iowa (“the Court”) held that the State of Iowa did not owe a duty of care to either the defendant nursing home or its 95-year-old nursing home resident who was sexually assaulted by a co-resident who was a sex offender with a [...]

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