Crack-Smoking Doctor’s Medical License Suspended
July 18, 2013
There are not many things that scare us more than doctors high on drugs who treat patients when their professional judgment may be seriously clouded. On July 1, 2013, the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners summarily suspended the medical license of a Greenville, Tennessee medical doctor who ha[...]
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Tennessee Medical Malpractice Verdict For Trach Tube Error
July 13, 2013
On July 3, 2013, a Tennessee medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $15.2 million in favor of a 23-year-old man who suffered catastrophic brain injuries when his doctor removed his breathing tube (tracheostomy tube) and failed to timely or adequately respond when he had problem[...]
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Tennessee Court Of Appeals Upholds Pre-Suit Notice Requirement
May 12, 2013
On April 17, 2013, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee turned down a constitutional challenge and upheld Tennessee Code Annotated Section 29-26-121, which requires a medical malpractice claimant to provide notice sixty days prior to filing suit, holding that section 29-26-121 is not an unconstitutio[...]
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Tennessee Medical Malpractice Claim For Inmate’s Death
October 23, 2012
On October 15, 2012, the surviving wife of a Tennessee prison inmate filed a medical malpractice wrongful death claim against the Tennessee Department of Correction in which she alleges that her 48-year-old husband died in prison due to medical malpractice. Her husband had a lung x-ray in September [...]
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