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$1M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Settlement For Gastric Leak Following Sleeve Gastrectomy

June 18, 2023

$1M Settlement For Gastric Leak Following Sleeve Gastrectomy: A Massachusetts woman had to have her entire stomach and duodenum removed as well as the left lower lobe of her lung as a result of a gastric leak that went untreated following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy that was performed in October[...]

British Man’s Colon Cancer Misdiagnosed In 2016

June 17, 2023

Colon Cancer Misdiagnosed In 2016: A 58-year-old British man, Mark Allinson, who had a prior history of kidney stones, went to the hospital in September 2016 for stomach pain. A CT scan ordered at that time showed that he had a kidney stone in his left kidney. He was sent home after the diagnosis. I[...]

Maryland’s New Child Sexual Abuse Law

June 16, 2023

Maryland’s New Child Sexual Abuse Law: In 2018, the Maryland Office of the Attorney General launched a Grand Jury investigation into the Archdiocese of Baltimore, examining criminal allegations of child sexual abuse by clergy, seminarians, deacons, and employees of the Archdiocese. The Office [...]

Surgeon’s Age Discrimination Lawsuit Against Hospital Exposes Patient Safety Issues

June 16, 2023

Age Discrimination Lawsuit Exposes Patient Safety Issues: Since the 1980s, neurosurgeon Set Shahbabian performed most of his surgeries at Good Samaritan Hospital, a facility operated by TriHealth. In 2014, at age seventy, Shahbabian sold his independent practice to, and became an employee of, TriHea[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges 16-Year-Old Died From Hospital Medical Malpractice

June 15, 2023

16-Year-Old Died From Hospital Medical Malpractice: In late April 2023, the parents of a 16-year-old high school football player filed a Pennsylvania medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against Geisinger and Wayne Memorial Health System for their alleged failure to diagnose their son’s [...]

Alabama Federal Court Allows Filshie Clip Migration Claims To Proceed Against CooperSurgical And Femcare

June 14, 2023

Filshie Clip Migration Claims Proceed Against CooperSurgical And Femcare: Filshie Clips are silicone-lined titanium medical devices that are attached to a woman’s fallopian tubes during a tubal ligation procedure. The clips work by exerting continuous pressure on the fallopian tubes, eventually bl[...]

Federal District Court Rules New Jersey Medical Malpractice Cap Applies In EMTALA Case

June 13, 2023

New Jersey Medical Malpractice Cap Applies In EMTALA Case: The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey Camden Vicinage (“federal court”) stated in its Memorandum Order filed on April 26, 2023: “Under § 1395dd(d)(2)(A), an individual who suffers harm as a direct[...]

Australia Filshie Clip Recall

June 12, 2023

Australia Filshie Clip Recall: The Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care Therapeutic Goods Administration states on its website that there was a recall commenced on July 1, 2020 for Filshie clips, inter alia, for “Product Defect Correction” for the following stated rea[...]

$1 Million Medical Malpractice Settlement For Radiologist Who Missed Breast Cancer

June 11, 2023

$1 Million Settlement For Radiologist Who Missed Breast Cancer: A federal medical malpractice lawsuit alleging the delayed diagnosis of a woman’s invasive breast cancer by a Veterans Affairs radiologist filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Di[...]

$780,000 Medical Malpractice Settlement For Man Who Was Injured While Under Effects Of Anesthesia

June 10, 2023

$780,000 Settlement For Man Who Was Injured While Under Anesthesia: A man who claimed he was involved in a motorcycle accident while allegedly still under the effects of anesthesia from a cardiac catheterization procedure at a Veterans Affairs medical center in St. Louis, Missouri has reached a $780[...]

U.S. Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Private Cause Of Action Under Federal Nursing Home Reform Act (“FNHRA”)

June 9, 2023

Court Rules In Favor Of Private Cause Of Action Under Federal Nursing Home Reform Act (“FNHRA”): The United States Supreme Court held in its June 8, 2023 Opinion : “By its terms, §1983 is available to enforce every right that Congress validly and unambiguously creates; we will not[...]

Nursing Home Beds In The United States Are Declining

June 8, 2023

Nursing Home Beds Declining: The results of a study published on March 1, 2023 in JAMA Network entitled “Trends in Supply of Nursing Home Beds, 2011-2019” found that the number of nursing home beds in the United States declined between 2011 and 2019: “the supply of nursing home bed[...]

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