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Army Hospital Medical Malpractice Claim Ends In $9M Settlement

March 6, 2016

It has been reported that Tripler Army Medical Center has agreed to pay $9 million to settle a medical malpractice birth injury case that alleged that the medical negligence of a doctor-in-training at the army hospital caused a newborn to suffer catastrophic neurological injuries that occurred dur[...]

$30M Chicago Medical Malpractice Settlement For Child Left Brain Damaged After 24 Experimental Surgeries

March 5, 2016

The Chicago medical malpractice attorneys for a young child who had 24 experimental surgeries that led to his severe and permanent brain injury were able to recently settle the medical malpractice claims against the defendant surgeon and defendant hospital, for $30 million. The child was born on No[...]

California Nursing Home Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed

March 4, 2016

On February 9, 2016, the family of a deceased California nursing home resident filed a California nursing home negligence and wrongful death lawsuit, alleging that the resident had experienced a fall in the nursing home about two weeks after he arrived, followed by negligent nursing home care, which[...]

Johns Hopkins Surgeons Plan First Penis Transplant In The U.S.

March 3, 2016

Johns Hopkins surgeons have already identified the first patient in the United States on whom they intend to perform a penis transplant; they are now waiting for a penis donor. While penis reconstruction surgeries are routinely performed on patients who are born with defects, have suffered injuries,[...]

$11.6M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Radiologist For Misread CT Scan

March 2, 2016

A New York medical malpractice jury awarded a local business man $11.6 million in damages as a result of a radiologist’s medical negligence in failing to properly read and report the results of the plaintiff’s CT scan of his brain that evidently showed that a major blood vessel that sup[...]

Quest Diagnostics Sued For Alleged Pathology Malpractice In Death Of Basketball Icon

March 1, 2016

On January 15, 2016, a Florida basketball icon died from advanced oral cancer that his widow alleges in her Florida medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit, which was filed on February 15, 2016, was avoidable had a Quest Diagnostics pathologist properly read a biopsy slide in 2011 that an indepe[...]

California Appellate Court Denies Assisted Living Facility’s Demand For Arbitration Of Wrongful Death Claim

February 29, 2016

In its decision filed on January 29, 2016, the Court of Appeal of the State of California First Appellate District Division One (“Appellate Court”) held that the wrongful death beneficiaries in an assisted living facility wrongful death and elder abuse lawsuit were not bound by the ag[...]

Georgia Psychiatrist Accused Of Running Pill Mill; 36 Patients Died

February 28, 2016

A Georgia psychiatrist who had no record of disciplinary actions or medical malpractice claims against him has been arrested and accused of running a pill mill. It has been reported that 36 of the psychiatrist’s patients have died while they were prescribed drugs by the psychiatrist and that a[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Case Will Remain In Federal Court

February 27, 2016

Two Kuwaiti medical malpractice plaintiffs who filed a medical malpractice case in Maryland state court against The Johns Hopkins Hospital and related entities, all of whom are Maryland defendants, loss their bid to have their Maryland medical malpractice case remanded to Maryland state court af[...]

Federal Appellate Court Affirms Kentucky Wrongful Death Claimants Not Bound By Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement

February 26, 2016

In its decision filed on January 15, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit (“Appellate Court”) affirmed that the wrongful death beneficiaries who filed a nursing home wrongful death claim in Kentucky were not bound by the nursing home arbitration agreement signed[...]

$2.39M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Post-Surgery Fall

February 25, 2016

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury recently returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $2.39 million after a seven-day trial and three hours of jury deliberations. The twelve-person Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded the woman $800,000 for her past non-economic l[...]

Missouri Pharmacy Malpractice Lawsuit Underway

February 24, 2016

On February 22, 2016, jurors were summoned to a Missouri courthouse to begin the initial process of seating a jury to hear a Missouri pharmacy malpractice lawsuit filed by the family of an elderly woman who died as a result of alleged negligence committed by a local pharmacy in filling the woman&[...]

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