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Former Maryland VA Official Sentenced For Fraud

January 24, 2015

In December 2014, the 68-year-old former Deputy Chief of Veterans Claims in the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs was sentenced in federal court to a year and a day in prison, followed by two years of supervised probation, for extortion in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain ov[...]

Connecticut Hospital Sued For Alleged Sexual Abuse Of Hospitalized Patient

January 23, 2015

On January 15, 2015, a man who was an inpatient in a Connecticut hospital sued the hospital for substantial damages for what he alleges was sexual abuse he suffered by a nursing assistant employed by the hospital. The plaintiff alleges that he had been hospitalized for over a month for treatment of[...]

$10.9M Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict For Pregnant Woman’s Stroke

January 22, 2015

On January 14, 2015, an Ohio medical malpractice jury awarded the plaintiffs $10,928,188 in compensatory damages after four hours of jury deliberations following seven days of trial testimony, for the serious stroke suffered by a woman during her pregnancy that the plaintiffs alleged was the result[...]

Ecuadorian Beauty Queen Dies During Plastic Surgery She Won

January 21, 2015

A 19-year-old woman from Ecuador, who won a beauty pageant in Ecuador in October 2014, died on January 10, 2015 as a result of cerebral edema she suffered during elective plastic surgery (abdominal liposuction) she was undergoing at a clinic in her home town. The plastic surgeon who performed t[...]

Survey Results For Recently Hospitalized People In The United States

January 20, 2015

The largest independent, non-profit, consumer-product-testing organization in the United States surveyed 1,200 recently hospitalized people and reported the results of the survey in the February 2015 edition of its monthly magazine. The eye-opening results include survey respondents reporting tha[...]

New Jersey Court Approves $8M Medical Malpractice Settlement For Child’s Birth Injury

January 19, 2015

On January 8, 2015, a New Jersey state court approved a $8 million settlement for a minor child who suffered serious and permanent injuries during birth, allegedly due to medical negligence. The now 6-year-old child suffered cerebral palsy, mental retardation, disfigurement, and suffers from incon[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Newborn’s Brachial Plexus Injury

January 18, 2015

A woman was 22 years old when she gave birth to her second child, a son, in June 2012 (her first baby was a girl, who was born healthy following a normal vaginal delivery). The woman’s second child suffered serious and permanent birth injuries as a result of alleged medical negligence dur[...]

Florida Pain Management Doctor Allegedly Tied To At Least 17 Deaths

January 17, 2015

A 75-year-old Florida pain management doctor has been reportedly tied to the deaths of at least 17 of his patients who were prescribed controlled substances and whose deaths have been attributed to drug toxicity (15 deaths in the Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner’s database where prescriptions w[...]

Former Arkansas Judge Pleads Guilty To Accepting Bribe To Reduce Nursing Home Negligence Verdict

January 16, 2015

A former Arkansas circuit judge has pleaded guilty to accepting a bribe from a nursing home owner to reduce a nursing home negligence jury verdict, from $5.2 million to $1 million. The businessman who owned the nursing home had financed several political action committees that donated to the jud[...]

Kentucky Cancer Clinic Allegedly Overtreated Patients To Increase Profits

January 15, 2015

Two physicians associated with a Kentucky cancer clinic agreed in June 2014 to pay $3.7 million to federal and state authorities to resolve health care fraud claims. Now, former patients are left to wonder if they received unnecessary procedures or had unnecessarily extended cancer treatments in ord[...]

Ohio Judge Awards $28.7M In Medical Malpractice Birth Injury Case Involving Cerebral Palsy

January 14, 2015

On December 26, 2014, a judge in Ohio entered judgment in the amount of $28,745,991 in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiffs in a case in which it was alleged that the defendants’ medical negligence led to the plaintiffs’ child being born with cerebral palsy due to oxygen deprivat[...]

Louisiana Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Sponge Left During Surgery

January 13, 2015

A Louisiana man has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against his surgeon and a Louisiana surgery center after a surgical sponge was left in him during surgery. The defendant surgeon and defendant surgery center are alleged to have been negligent by failing to conduct a proper and accurate spong[...]

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