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5 Things You Should Do If You Are Hurt By Medical Malpractice

March 31, 2014

Being harmed by medical malpractice is similar to being seriously injured as a result of a car accident that is not your fault – you cannot predict when it may happen to you, you are never prepared for the injuries and pain you may suffer due to someone else’s fault, you are left f[...]

Tennessee Appeals Court Finds Substantial Compliance By Medical Malpractice Plaintiff

March 30, 2014

In its written opinion filed on March 28, 2014, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee at Knoxville (“Appeals Court”) decided an appeal in which the issue was “whether the Plaintiff failed to strictly comply with the pre-suit notice requirement that the affidavit of service of the writt[...]

Michigan Radiologist Held Liable For Newborn’s Death

March 29, 2014

Earlier this week, a Grand Rapids, Michigan medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against a deceased radiologist and his medical practice in the amount of $1.25 million, finding in favor of the parents of a newborn baby girl who died three days after her birth in June 2009. The Michigan med[...]

CDC’s Shocking New Autism Data

March 28, 2014

On March 27, 2014, the CDC released new data regarding autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the United States based on a review of records of 8-year-olds (more than 5,300) in certain areas of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Utah, and Wis[...]

NY Nursing Home Hidden Camera Results In Criminal Charges Against 10

March 27, 2014

A loving son who was concerned that his father was being harmed in a New York nursing home took the bold step of placing a concealed camera in his father’s nursing home room to monitor and document the care (or lack of care) his father was receiving. The recordings from the hidden camera [...]

Kentucky Supreme Court Rules Medical Malpractice Defendant’s License Status Inadmissible

March 26, 2014

A Kentucky woman alleged that a radiologist misread three CT scans of her lungs and failed to identify and report lesions, one in either lung, that ultimately resulted in the delay of her lung cancer diagnosis. The woman’s experts testified at trial that the lesions were identifiable as [...]

Indiana Supreme Court Says FedEx Saved Medical Malpractice Claim

March 25, 2014

The Indiana Supreme Court held in its written opinion filed on March 10, 2014 that the commencement of a medical malpractice action occurs when a copy of the proposed complaint is deposited for mailing by registered or certified mail or by certain private delivery services, and that the plaintiff&#[...]

$7.2M Arizona Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict Upheld

March 24, 2014

On March 11, 2014, the Arizona Court of Appeals Division Two upheld an Arizona medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $7,275,160, after an eleven-day trial. The evidence introduced by the plaintiff during the trial indicated that the plaintiff had suffe[...]

Arkansas Supreme Court Overturns $1.2B Risperdal Verdict

March 23, 2014

In its written opinion dated March 20, 2014, the Supreme Court of Arkansas (“Arkansas Supreme Court”) overturned a $1.2 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson (“J & J”) arising out of the alleged improper marketing of its antipsychotic drug, Risperdal. The Arkans[...]

Former New York Surgeon Sentenced To 4.5 Years In Federal Prison

March 22, 2014

A former New York orthopedic surgeon who admitted to defrauding the U.S. government and health insurance providers in a scheme that ran from 2007 and 2011, during which the surgeon and his medical practice filed claims in excess of $35 million that resulted in $13 million in payments, was sentence[...]

$1.9M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Verdict For Unnecessary Cancer Treatment

March 21, 2014

On March 11, 2014, a Worchester, Massachusetts medical malpractice jury found in favor of the estate of a man who was told in 2003 that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after which he twice underwent chemotherapy and later had a stem cell transplant. The medical malpractice jury’s verdic[...]

Chicago Hospital To Pay $17M Now For Medical Malpractice In 2003

March 20, 2014

On September 6, 2003, a 13-year-old boy was brought to a Chicago hospital’s emergency room due to a fever and generally not feeling well. Significantly, the boy had a prior history of bacterial endocarditis in 1996 (bacterial endocarditis is a serious and sometimes fatal condition where ther[...]

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