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May Is Lyme Disease Awareness Month

May 6, 2014

May 2014 is Lyme Disease Awareness Month in the United States, focusing attention on Lyme disease prevention and treatment. The CDC’s most current statistics regarding the number of reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States, from 2003 through 2012, indicate that the number of confi[...]

Dental Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Bad Treatment Requiring Further Surgery

May 5, 2014

A Louisiana man has filed a dental malpractice lawsuit against his former dentist and the dentist’s employer, alleging dental negligence by the dentist who performed an unnecessary dental procedure using an improper technique, failing to obtain the patient’s informed consent, and failin[...]

U.S. Senator Boxer’s Office Issues “Medical Errors” Report

May 4, 2014

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s Office recently issued a report entitled “Medical Errors” that discusses “the most common and devastating medical errors.” In July 2013, Senator Boxer contacted Partnership for Patients (a public-private partnership funded through the Affor[...]

Phoenix VA Under Fire For Alleged Secret List For Delaying Veterans’ Care

May 3, 2014

The former clinic director of the Phoenix Veterans Health Care Center (“Phoenix VA”), who retired in December 2013 after twenty four years of service at the Phoenix VA, has reportedly accused the Phoenix VA of creating a secret list in February 2013 of about 1,400 veterans who were wai[...]

$850M Vaginal Mesh Settlement Announced

May 2, 2014

On April 30, 2014, Endo International plc (“Endo”), a global specialty healthcare company headquartered in Dublin, Ireland (with its U.S. headquarters located in Malvern, Pennsylvania) that develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes pharmaceutical and device products, announced t[...]

Medicare False Claims Whistleblower To Receive $15M

May 1, 2014

An Alabama nurse will receive $15 million as her share of the settlement proceeds from a False Claims Act whistleblower lawsuit she filed against her former employer, a Louisiana-based home healthcare company that operates in 37 U.S. states. Her former employer has agreed to pay $150 million to [...]

Tennessee Supreme Court Allows Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Despite Failure To Strictly Comply With Pre-Suit Notice Requirement

April 30, 2014

In its decision issued on April 24, 2014, the Supreme Court of Tennessee (“Tennessee Supreme Court”), which is Tennessee’s highest court, ruled that a medical malpractice plaintiff had substantially complied with Tennessee’s statutory pre-suit notice requirement for Tennessee[...]

17 New York Nursing Home Employees Criminally Charged With Neglect

April 29, 2014

The New York Attorney General announced last week that 17 employees of a Buffalo, New York nursing home (eight nurses and nine certified nursing assistants) have been charged with falsifying business records in the first degree (a class E felony), endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physi[...]

Stethoscope Contamination: What You Don’t See Can Hurt You

April 28, 2014

Studies have shown that most physicians and nurses do not disinfect their stethoscopes frequently – 70% to 90% of physicians do not disinfect their stethoscopes after each patient contact. The parts of the stethoscope most likely to come in contact with patients (i.e., the diaphragm and the b[...]

$14M Yasmin Jury Verdict

April 27, 2014

On April 18, 2014, after a two-week trial, a Cook County, Illinois Circuit Court medical malpractice jury awarded $14 million to a woman who suffered a serious stroke thirteen days after she began taking the birth control medication Yasmin. The 37-year-old woman lost the use of the left side of h[...]

Cost Of Long Term Care In The United States In 2014

April 26, 2014

A recently published survey of the cost of long term care in the United States in 2014 reported that the cost of long term care has steadily increased over the last eleven years but that the cost of long term care provided at home has grown at a lesser rate than the cost of long term care provid[...]

$4.5M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death Due To Delay

April 25, 2014

Two physicians who work at Massachusetts General Hospital (“MGH”) agreed earlier this month to pay $4.5 million to the family of a 62-year-old woman who died due to the alleged delay in providing her with timely medical care while she was in the hospital. The woman had been transfer[...]

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