Virginia Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 8 of 9

VA Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges ORIF On Wrong Bone In Foot

June 8, 2015

Imagine going to the hospital for surgery on a particular bone in your foot, and when you awake from surgery, the surgeon performed surgery on the wrong bone. That is what a Navy veteran is claiming that happened to him, in his VA medical malpractice lawsuit filed under the provisions of the Federa[...]

$1.3M Virginia Medical Malpractice Settlement For Misdiagnosed Lung Cancer

May 9, 2015

During mid-April 2015,VThe wrongful death medical malpractice lawsuit filed against a Roanoke, Virginia-based medical facility and a physician’s office alleged that the man’s chest x-rays taken in 2009 and 2010 as part of the pre-operative clearance process for the man’s two kn[...]

D.C. Appellate Court Affirms Insurance Company Not Responsible For Judgment Against D.C. Medical Malpractice Law Firm

April 30, 2015

In its opinion filed on April 21, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for The District Of Columbia Circuit (“Appellate Court”) held that a D.C. medical malpractice law firm’s professional liability insurance company was not responsible to pay the $1,750,000 legal malpractice[...]

Virginia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Involving ADHD, Medications, And Suicide

May 18, 2014

The parents of a 24-year-old man whose body was found by them hanging in his apartment closet after he had committed suicide have filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against their son’s health care providers who they allege misdiagnosed their son as having ADHD and treated him with inappropria[...]

Virginia $2M Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Emergency Room Physician

March 12, 2014

On March 7, 2014, a Charlottesville, Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2 million against a hospital emergency room physician who failed to follow proper procedures after the over-50, overweight diabetic plaintiff, who had come to the emergency room complaining [...]

$4M Virginia Medical Mapractice Verdict Against Family Practitioner

March 3, 2014

On February 27, 2014, a Lynchburg, Virginia medical malpractice jury rendered its verdict in the amount of $4 million against a family practitioner who the jury found to have been negligent in his treatment of his patient in 2007 that resulted in the loss of a large portion of the patient’[...]

Virginia Medical Malpractice Law Says A Fetus Is A Patient

February 21, 2014

In an opinion filed on January 10, 2014, a Virginia appellate court held that a fetus who was injured in the womb due to alleged medical malpractice is considered a “patient” and therefore her medical malpractice claim arose under Virginia’s Medical Malpractice Act, Code Sections 8[...]

Virginia Wrongful Death Lawsuit Settled For Fungal Meningitis Death

February 9, 2014

A man suffering from back pain received contaminated steroids at a Roanoke clinic and died as a result of fungal meningitis. His family has now settled for an undisclosed sum the medical malpractice lawsuit that they had filed in December 2012 and that had sought $25 million in damages. The man ha[...]

Virginia Assisted Living Facility Sued For Failure To Protect Resident

November 14, 2013

On September 12, 2013, a lawsuit was filed in Virginia state court on behalf of a resident in a Virginia assisted living facility who allegedly was savagely attacked by another resident who was known to be violent. The 81-year-old woman, who has dementia, lived near to the resident who was known t[...]

Virginia Medical Malpractice Case Ends In Hung Jury

October 10, 2013

On October 3, 2013, a Culpeper, Virginia medical malpractice jury advised the presiding judge that it was unable to agree on a verdict despite 11 hours of jury deliberations over two days. The jury of three men and three women handed the judge a note that stated, “We are all in agreement tha[...]

$4 Million Virginia Legal Malpractice Win Following Medical Malpractice Loss

October 6, 2013

On September 27, 2013, a Richmond (Virginia) Circuit Court jury awarded $4 million to a young woman who became paralyzed from the chest down as a result of alleged medical malpractice that occurred in 2004, in her legal malpractice claim against her prominent Washington, D. C. medical malpractic[...]

$1.45M Virginia Nursing Home Negligence Verdict For Fire Injuries Caused By Smoking

August 13, 2013

A nursing home negligence jury in Virginia recently awarded $1.45 million to the estate of a man whose clothing caught on fire while he was allowed to smoke unsupervised at a Virginia nursing home. The incident occurred on June 3, 2011, when the wheelchair-bound nursing home resident’s swea[...]

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