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Analysis Of Pain Experienced By Nursing Home Residents

May 26, 2023

Analysis Of Pain Experienced By Nursing Home Residents: A study published on December 22, 2022 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Association entitled “Pain trajectories of nursing home residents” sought to understand changes in nursing home (NH) resident pain over time in order t[...]

Biopsy Error Led To Unnecessary Mastectomy On Patient In Israel

May 25, 2023

Biopsy Error Led To Unnecessary Mastectomy: On April 11, 2022, Meirav Baר-Hen, a mother of three, underwent mammography screening along with a breast ultrasound that indicated possible cancerous tissue. She had a biopsy three days later during which six samples were taken from her left breast. On A[...]

OIG Found CMS Dropping The Ball Regarding Nursing Home Surveys

May 24, 2023

OIG Found CMS Dropping The Ball Regarding Nursing Home Surveys: In its January 2022 report entitled “CMS Should Take Further Action To Address States With Poor Performance inConducting Nursing Home Surveys,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (&#[...]

Urologist Charged With Sexually Abusing Patients

May 23, 2023

Urologist Charged With Sexually Abusing Patients: On April 11, 2023, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the unsealing of a four-count Indictment charging Darius A. Paduch, a New York–area urologist, with inducement of a person to travel to engage in unlawful[...]

Physician Noncompete Agreements Contribute To Physician Shortages

May 22, 2023

Physician Noncompete Agreements Contribute To Physician Shortages: One of the tried and true arguments that the health care industry promotes to advance their medical malpractice tort reform efforts before state legislatures that protect the financial interests of heath care providers at the expense[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Holds Future Wages Claim For Infant Who Died From Malpractice Too Speculative

May 21, 2023

Future Wages Claim For Infant Who Died Too Speculative: The decedent child was born at the defendant hospital on June 12, 2014. He allegedly had visible vesicles (fluid-filled sacs or blisters) on his skin. The plaintiff alleged that the defendants should have recognized that the vesicles were signs[...]

Federal Appellate Court Upholds West Virginia’s Ban On Certain Attorney Advertising

May 20, 2023

West Virginia’s Ban On Certain Attorney Advertising: In its published opinion dated April 27, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) stated: “West Virginia by statute regulates legal advertisements that solicit clients in l[...]

87-Year-Old Iowa Nursing Home Resident Died Because Nurse Refused To Suction His Airway

May 19, 2023

87-Year-Old Dies Because Nurse Refused To Suction His Airway: An investigation by the State of Iowa found that an 87-year-old resident of an Iowa nursing home who had a tracheostomy and was unable to perform self-care was nonetheless able to communicate with the nursing home staff when his tracheost[...]

Defense Verdict In New York Medical Malpractice Case Alleging Automated Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Defect

May 18, 2023

Verdict in Automated Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Defect Case: A medical malpractice jury reached a defense verdict on behalf of a New York hospital in a New York medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that he suffered from constant and painful electrical shocks after the [...]

$1.3 Million New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For 18 Days Of Pain And Suffering Upheld

May 17, 2023

$1.3 Million Verdict For 18 Days Of Pain And Suffering Upheld: Following the discharge of the plaintiff’s decedent from the defendant hospital to a rehabilitation center on September 12, 2012, the decedent’s condition worsened, and he died on September 30, 2012. The plaintiff commenced a New Yor[...]

$1.75 Million Glaucoma Medical Malpractice Settlement

May 16, 2023

$1.75 Million Glaucoma Settlement: On February 27, 2023, a glaucoma medical malpractice lawsuit filed in New York by a 51-year-old woman whose glaucoma was not timely diagnosed, resulting in permanent eye damage, was settled for $1.75 million. The plaintiff, Rupa Dharia, alleged that she received ro[...]

$1.36M North Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Following Colonoscopy

May 15, 2023

$1.36M For Death Following Colonoscopy: On April 3, 2023, a North Carolina medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1.36 million for the estate of a 70-year-old man who died shortly after undergoing a screening colonoscopy. The defendants were a CRNA and an anesthesiology prac[...]

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