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Virginia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Involving ADHD, Medications, And Suicide

May 18, 2014

The parents of a 24-year-old man whose body was found by them hanging in his apartment closet after he had committed suicide have filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against their son’s health care providers who they allege misdiagnosed their son as having ADHD and treated him with inappropria[...]

Maryland Stent Claim Settled

May 17, 2014

A Maryland medical malpractice case against a former cardiologist and a local hospital in Maryland that had been filed in September 2012 was dismissed as a result of a settlement order that was entered on April 30, 2014. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. The former doctor is presently [...]

VA Health Care Official Statistics (2013)

May 16, 2014

The U.S. Congress established the U.S. Veterans Administration in 1930, authorizing the U.S. President to “consolidate and coordinate Government activities affecting war veterans.” Since 1930, the VA health care system has grown from 54 hospitals to 152 hospitals, 800 community based out[...]

Does This South Dakota Doctor Have A Financial Conflict Of Interest?

May 15, 2014

A South Dakota doctor is the chairwoman of the South Dakota Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners (“Board”), which adjudicates complaints against doctors (and other health care providers) in South Dakota. The Board has the authority to revoke or suspend a doctor’s medical lice[...]

Unlicensed Health Provider Operated Colorado Clinic For Nearly 30 Years

May 14, 2014

Despite at least 15 civil lawsuits and dozens of complaints to Colorado state regulators regarding a Colorado inpatient treatment center for adolescents with mental illness issues and drug abuse problems, the owner of the center was allowed to operate the facility for almost thirty years despite not[...]

Rhode Island Supreme Court Decides Claims Against Labs Are Not Medical Malpractice Claims

May 13, 2014

In its decision dated May 2, 2014, the Rhode Island Supreme Court (“Supreme Court”) held that the Rhode Island Legislature did not intend for negligence actions against medical laboratories to fall under the ambit of Rhode Island’s medical malpractice laws. In reaching its decision[...]

$1.72M Alaska Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Neurosurgeon

May 12, 2014

On May 5, 2014, an Alaska medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1.72 million against a neurosurgeon whom the jury found to have acted negligently and recklessly while performing surgery on a patient in 2009. The verdict included $232,000 for past medical expenses incurred b[...]

Indiana Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Allege Unnecessary Implanted Cardiac Devices

May 11, 2014

A Lake County, Indiana cardiologist is facing two medical malpractice lawsuits by two former patients whom both allege that the cardiologist implanted unnecessary cardiac devices in them. A separate federal whistleblower lawsuit has also been filed against the cardiologist and the hospital where he [...]

Nursing Home Rape

May 10, 2014

On May 7, 2014, a 24-year-old certified nursing assistant (“CNA”) employed at a Massachusetts nursing home was arraigned on four felony counts – two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault, and one count of battery – with regard to the alleged rape of a 69-year-old fema[...]

Nursing Home Falls

May 9, 2014

Too many elderly and infirmed residents of nursing homes in the United States suffer preventable falls that result in further physical or mental deterioration, including fractures that may require surgery or even an untimely and unexpected death. Many nursing home falls are foreseeable and preventab[...]

Fungal Meningitis Claims Settled For $100 Million

May 8, 2014

On May 6, 2014, a proposed $100 million settlement was filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Boston, Massachusetts regarding the claims of 3,300 claimants arising out of the allegedly contaminated steroid injections manufactured by the New England Compounding Center (“NECC”) that was loc[...]

$3.7M Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict Vacated; Retrial Results In Defense Verdict

May 7, 2014

In May 2011, an Illinois medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiff in the amount of $3,767,792. However, the trial judge granted the defendants’ post-trial motion and vacated the jury’s verdict in September 2011. The second trial commence[...]

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