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Amputated Leg May Be Best Evidence Establishing VA Medical Negligence

January 23, 2017

A 46-year-old man’s amputated leg, which he had donated to a non-profit organization for canine search and rescue training a year-and-a-half earlier, was retrieved by the man’s VA medical malpractice lawyer in July 2016 and may be the best evidence that medical negligence at the VA Puget[...]

Michigan Assisted Living Facility Sued For Elopement Death

January 22, 2017

The husband of a woman suffering from early onset dementia filed a lawsuit on January 12, 2017 against the Michigan assisted living facility where she had resided, for her death that resulted from her elopement from the facility and the failure of the assisted living facility staff to check on her. [...]

Texas Appellate Court Affirms That Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Expert Report Was Sufficient

January 21, 2017

In a case decided by the Court of Appeals Eighth District of Appeals El Paso, Texas (“Appellate Court”) on December 9, 2016, the Appellate Court held that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in finding that the plaintiff’s expert in her Texas medical malpractice case was [...]

Virginia Nursing Home Allegedly Tied Resident To Wheelchair, Injected Her With Sedative

January 20, 2017

An 84-year-old former resident of a Virginia nursing home, and her daughter, have filed a Virginia nursing home abuse lawsuit in which they allege that two nurses at the defendant nursing home tied the resident to her wheelchair with bed sheets and then injected her with narcotic sedatives to keep h[...]

Massachusetts Appellate Court Finds Plaintiff’s Offer Of Proof Sufficient In Medical Malpractice Case

January 19, 2017

In its unreported opinion filed on January 3, 2017, the Massachusetts Appeals Court held the Massachusetts medical malpractice tribunal’s finding that the plaintiff’s offer of proof was insufficient was erroneous and thus the judgment dismissing the plaintiff’s Massachusetts medica[...]

Florida ALJ Determines Butt Lift Doctor Committed Multiple Acts Of Medical Malpractice

January 18, 2017

In her Recommended Order dated January 6, 2017, a Florida Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) stated that a Florida doctor who performed cosmetic surgery procedures on multiple patients in May 2015, including liposuction and fat injection procedures commonly referred to as a “Brazi[...]

Did Nominee For HHS Secretary Buy Stock, Then Introduce Legislation To Benefit The Company?

January 17, 2017

CNN reported on January 16, 2017 that President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Representative Tom Price, had bought stock in a medical device company that manufactures hip and knee replacements (Zimmer Biomet) in March 2016, and [...]

Maryland Has Highest Hospitalization Rate For Opioid Use

January 16, 2017

Between 2005 and 2014, the rate of opioid-related inpatient hospital stays in the United States increased 64.1%, from 136.8 per 100,000 population in 2005 to 224.6 per 100,000 population in 2014, representing a 5.7% average annual growth rate. During the same period, the rate of opioid-related ED vi[...]

MSU Physician Allegedly Sexually Abused Numerous Female Athletes

January 15, 2017

A Michigan osteopathic physician who was also certified as an athletic trainer and was employed by Michigan State University (MSU) until his employment was terminated in September 2016 is alleged to have sexually abused and sexually molested many female MSU athletes during his employment, including [...]

Surgical Forceps Left In Patient For 18 Years

January 14, 2017

When a 54-year-old Vietnamese man had a stomach ache and sought medical care, little did he suspect that an x-ray would find that the cause of his problems was surgical forceps that were apparently left in his abdomen near his colon during emergency surgery that he had eighteen years earlier followi[...]

Kentucky Republican Senate Members Try Again To Harm Medical Malpractice Victims

January 13, 2017

The Republican-controlled Kentucky Senate has repeatedly tried to introduce and pass legislation that would require Kentucky medical malpractice victims to suffer additional costs and delays in obtaining just compensation for their injuries from medical providers who breach the standard of care and [...]

Two Convicted New Jersey Chiropractors Sued To Recoup Illegal Medical Payments

January 12, 2017

The State of New Jersey and an automobile insurance company have filed a lawsuit against two convicted, unlicensed New Jersey chiropractors seeking to recover medical payments that they received as a result of an alleged illegal scheme involving them, other chiropractors, a medical doctor, a persona[...]

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