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Accuretic Recall

March 26, 2022

Pfizer is voluntarily recalling Accuretic (quinapril HCl/hydrochlorothiazide) tablets distributed by Pfizer as well as two authorized generics distributed by Greenstone (quinapril and hydrochlorothiazide and quinapril HCl/ hydrochlorothiazide) to the patient (consumer/user) level due to the presence[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Finds Factual Dispute As To When Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitations Began To Run

March 25, 2022

Connecticut General Statutes (Rev. to 2015) § 52-584 provides in relevant part: ‘‘No action to recover damages for injury to the person, or to real or personal property, caused by negligence, or by reckless or wanton misconduct, or by malpractice of a . . . hospital . . . shall be brought but w[...]

Iowa $98 Million Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

March 24, 2022

On March 21, 2022, an Iowa medical malpractice jury deliberated for about 90 minutes after a 14-day trial before it returned its verdict in the amount of $97.4 million in favor of the parents of a newborn who suffered permanent brain damage during delivery in 2018 as a result of the improper use of [...]

False Claims Act: Medically Unnecessary Medical Services

March 23, 2022

During the fiscal year ending September 30, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice resolved a number of matters in which providers billed federal health care programs for medically unnecessary services or services not rendered as billed. For example, SavaSeniorCare LLC and related entities agreed to [...]

False Claims Act: Kickbacks In The Health Care Industry

March 22, 2022

Kickbacks in the healthcare industry are pernicious because of their potential to subvert medical decision-making and to increase healthcare costs. In addition to pursuing improper payments by drug manufacturers, the department resolved other schemes involving the willful solicitation or payment of [...]

New York Audit Finds 4,100 Nursing Home COVID-19 Deaths Were Unreported

March 21, 2022

An audit of data collected by the New York Department of Health (DOH) regarding nursing home COVID-19 deaths that was released on March 15, 2022 found: “DOH did not provide the public with accurate COVID-19 death counts and became entangled in the undercounting of those deaths as the Executive[...]

Frequency Of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Against OB/GYNs Continues To Fall

March 20, 2022

Medscape’s Ob/Gyn Malpractice Report 2021 reported that the total number of obstetrician-gynecologists who reported being named as a defendant in a medical malpractice lawsuit has fallen steadily since 2017 (from 85% in 2017 to 83% in 2019 to 79% in 2021), although almost 80% reported having b[...]

Pennsylvania Internist Sues His Podiatrist For Medical Malpractice Leading To Amputation

March 19, 2022

An internal medicine doctor in Pennsylvania has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against his former podiatrist and two medical facilities for the loss of his right lower leg due to the alleged medical negligence of the podiatrist who treated him with a contact cast that was inappropriate due to t[...]

Ohio Fertility Clinic Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Sperm Sample Mix-Up In 1991

March 18, 2022

A recently filed Ohio medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that in 1991, a mix-up of sperm samples at Summa Health’s Akron City Hospital during a intrauterine insemination procedure at the hospital’s IVF Center (fertility clinic) performed by Dr. Nicholas J. Spirtos, in which the husband’s [...]

$12.35M Verdict Against Florida Nursing Home For Severe Bedsore Infection

March 17, 2022

On March 11, 2022, a Florida nursing home chain was hit with a $12,353,604 verdict against it for a resident developing a bedsore that became infected down to the bone. The resident, who had spina bifida, was a resident of Life Care Center of Orlando for one month in 2017 as a result of a […][...]

California Appellate Court Finds Father Sufficiently Pled Cause Of Action For Intentional Infliction Of Emotional Distress In Lawsuit For Harvesting Daughter’s Organs Without His Consent

March 16, 2022

The Court of Appeal of the State of California Fifth Appellate District (“California Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion filed on January 31, 2022 that the trial court erred in dismissing a father’s lawsuit against a hospital and Donor Network West for intentional inf[...]

3M Suffers $22.5M Verdict In Bellwether Defective Earplug Case

March 15, 2022

On December 10, 2021, a federal jury in Florida found against 3M and in favor of Army veteran Theodore Finley for his hearing loss and tinnitus in a bellwether case alleging ineffective combat earplugs, awarding the plaintiff a total of $22.5 million in damages ($7.5 million in compensatory damages [...]

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