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Maryland, You Must Join The Majority Of U.S. States That Conduct Criminal Background Checks On Doctors

June 23, 2014

Maryland is just one of thirteen U.S. states that do not require that doctors undergo criminal background checks when they apply for a medical license to practice medicine in the state. The requirement that physicians undergo criminal background checks in Maryland has been considered by the Maryland[...]

Large Hospitalist Company Charged With Medicare False Billings Scheme

June 22, 2014

The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced on June 17, 2014 that it is intervening in a federal whistleblower lawsuit (qui tam lawsuit) alleging that a large California-based hospitalist company that employs 2,500 hospitalists (physicians who work only in hospitals and other long-term care facilitie[...]

Louisiana Psychiatric Hospital Sued For Patient’s Stroke

June 21, 2014

A former patient at a Louisiana psychiatric hospital has sued the psychiatric hospital, a physician, and others for medical malpractice, alleging that their medical negligence resulted in the woman suffering a stroke. The psychiatric malpractice case was filed last month in Louisiana and seeks unspe[...]

West Virginia Supreme Court Nails Nursing Home For Understaffing/Harming Resident

June 20, 2014

In its decision filed on June 18, 2014, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (“Supreme Court”) upheld a substantial portion of the compensatory damages and the punitive damages awarded by a West Virginia jury against a nursing home and the various ownership and management compan[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Wrong Kidney Surgery

June 19, 2014

On June 10, 2014, a Texas couple filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against a urologist, a radiologist, and others, alleging that surgeons removed the husband’s healthy left kidney instead of removing his cancerous right kidney. As a result of the wrong kidney removal, the 55-year-old patient[...]

$25M Mesothelioma Verdicts For Two New York Plaintiffs

June 18, 2014

After a four-week trial and two days of jury deliberations, a New York jury returned its verdict on June 16, 2014 in favor of the plaintiffs in two cases in which the men alleged that the defendant was responsible for them developing mesothelioma due to their asbestos exposure. The two mesothelioma [...]

$14.5M Ohio Medical Malpractice Verdict For Birth Injury

June 17, 2014

On June 10, 2014, an Ohio medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $14.5 million after a two-week trial, for the alleged birth injuries suffered during delivery when the baby suffered a brain hemorrhage in utero. The verdict included $5 million for the [...]

medicalmalpracticelawyers.com Posts Its 1,200th Consecutive Daily Blog Today

June 16, 2014

medicalmalpracticelawyers.com is the premier free, no obligation website connecting medical malpractice victims in the United States with medical malpractice lawyers in their state. Today, we celebrate our 1,200th consecutive daily blog posting. Each of our 1,200 blog postings was written by a medic[...]

$7.9M Michigan Hospital Medical Malpractice Verdict

June 15, 2014

A Michigan medical malpractice jury recently determined that a Michigan hospital, an anesthesiologist practice, and a physician should pay $7.9 million in compensatory damages to the survivors of a woman who allegedly died due to medical malpractice. The defendant hospital immediately expressed its [...]

Anesthesiologist Sexting During Surgeries Has His License Suspended

June 14, 2014

The Washington State Department of Health, Medical Quality Assurance Commission, announced on June 9, 2014 that the medical license of a Washington anesthesiologist was immediately suspended as a result of charges that the anesthesiologist had compromised patient safety, due to his “lack of fo[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Battery Case

June 13, 2014

It is not often that a medical malpractice case alleges that a battery was committed by a medical provider due to the fact that the medical provider usually obtains the prior consent of the patient before performing particular medical procedure(s) on the patient (a “battery” may be defin[...]

Testosterone Replacement Drug Cases Consolidated

June 12, 2014

On June 6, 2014, the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“Panel”) decided to consolidate in the federal court in Chicago about 45 federal testosterone replacement drug cases pending throughout the United States against Abbott Laboratories (“Abbott”) and [...]

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