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Alabama Nursing Home Sued For Failure To Monitor Resident’s Blood Thinners, Leading To Death

April 12, 2014

An Alabama nursing home is being sued by the daughter of a former resident who died as a result of alleged nursing home negligence. The nursing home neglect lawsuit was filed on April 1, 2014, claiming that the 78-year-old woman died from coagulopathy due to the failure of the nursing home staff to [...]

$2.88M Kansas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Suicide After Pain Management Injections

April 11, 2014

A 40-year-old physically active Kansas man had chronic lower back pain for which he sought steroid injections intended to alleviate his pain. He first had epidural steroid injections into his back in May 2008 that were performed at a pain management clinic run by Board-certified anesthesiologists. W[...]

$1.1M Maine Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death After Heart Surgery

April 10, 2014

On March 28, 2014, a Maine medical malpractice jury determined that a Maine physician was negligent in his treatment of a 63-year-old man who underwent heart bypass surgery on November 9, 2010 but died four days later after he was allegedly not provided a proper blood transfusion. The same Maine[...]

$37M Settlement Of Maryland Stent Claims Announced

April 9, 2014

It has been reported that upwards of 273 former patients of a Baltimore hospital and its former cardiologist will receive at least $134,000 each (before attorneys’ fees and costs are deducted) to settle their claims against the hospital that alleged that the patients had medically unnecess[...]

Medicare Standards For Hospital Medical Records

April 8, 2014

Medical malpractice victims are often surprised when they read their hospital medical records because the records state matters that were never discussed with them or information that is false or misleading. While hospital patients do not have the ability to dictate what is stated in their medical [...]

California Appeals Court Allows Claim That Patient Froze To Death In Hospital Morgue

April 7, 2014

On April 2, 2014, the Court of Appeals of the State of California Second Appellate District Division Four (“Appeals Court”) reinstated claims against a California hospital by the relatives of a woman who allegedly was declared dead by the defendant hospital’s medical staff but la[...]

$1.6 Million Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of 48-Year-Old Man

April 6, 2014

On March 28, 2014, after a three-week trial and 10 hours of jury deliberations over the course of two days, a Peoria, Illinois medical malpractice jury awarded $1.6 million to the surviving wife and children of a 48-year-old man who went to a hospital emergency department in September 2009 at whic[...]

Maryland’s Highest Appellate Court Affirms Verdict In Lead Paint Case

April 5, 2014

The March 26, 2014 opinion of Maryland’s highest appellate court, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Appeals Court”), upheld a Maryland jury’s verdict in favor of the plaintiff in a lead paint case despite the plaintiff’s failure to comply with the notice requirem[...]

$10.6M Kentucky Verdict In First Of Five Pending Bariatric Medical Malpractice Cases

April 4, 2014

On March 25, 2014, after more than a month of trial, a Kentucky medical malpractice jury rendered its verdict in the amount of $10,658,265 against a bariatric surgeon and the Kentucky hospital where he had performed bariatric surgeries. The jury determined that the bariatric surgeon was 40% at fa[...]

Mississippi Appeals Court Grants Nursing Home New Trial

April 3, 2014

On March 25, 2014, the Court of Appeals of the State of Mississippi (“Appeals Court”) granted a new trial to the defendant nursing home that was held responsible for a wrongful death verdict in the amount of $1,213,300 (the amount of the verdict was reduced to $513,300 pursuant to[...]

Kansas Neurosurgeon Consents To Two-Year License Suspension

April 2, 2014

Pursuant to a Consent Order dated February 14, 2014, the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, which is the sole and exclusive administrative agency in the State of Kansas authorized to regulate the practice of the healing arts (“Board”), suspended the Kansas medical license of a neuros[...]

Wisconsin Nursing Home Fined $30,750 For 30 Violations; Had Hired Convicted Sex Offender

April 1, 2014

On February 28, 2014, a Wisconsin 77-bed nursing home that opened in 2012 was cited by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services Division of Quality Assurance with 30 violations as a result of an investigation conducted from September 24, 2013 to January 9, 2014. The nursing home (which bills it[...]

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