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Oklahoma Legislature Set To Reinstate Medical Malpractice Reforms During Special Session

September 8, 2013

On June 4, 2013, the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma held that the Oklahoma statutory requirement that an affidavit of merit be filed in actions for professional negligence (medical malpractice) is a “special law” that regulates the practice of law that violates the Oklahoma Constitutio[...]

Medical Firm Agrees To Pay $14.5 Million To Settle Medicare Overbilling Allegations

September 7, 2013

On July 3, 2013, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Tacoma, Washington-based Sound Inpatient Physicians Inc. (“Sound Inpatient”), a provider of hospitalists and other physicians to 70 hospitals and post-acute facilities in 22 U.S. states, has agreed to pay $14.5 million to s[...]

Maryland Actos Trial Underway

September 6, 2013

On September 3, 2013, a Baltimore City jury trial began in which the plaintiff alleges that the diabetes drug Actos was the cause of the bladder cancer that led to the death of a former U.S. Army translator in 2012. Actos is manufactured by Asia’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, Takeda P[...]

Kentucky Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Claims Misdiagnosis Of HIV

September 5, 2013

Imagine being told that you are HIV-positive and then living with the stigma of HIV and taking the HIV drug cocktail known as HAART (“highly active antiretroviral therapy”) in order to prolong your life before being told eight years later that you had been misdiagnosed as having�[...]

New Lyme Disease Statistics (2013)

September 4, 2013

The CDC reported on August 19, 2013 that preliminary estimates indicate that the number of Americans diagnosed with Lyme disease each year is around 300,000, based on findings from three ongoing CDC studies that use different methods. The first study analyzes medical claims information for ap[...]

$10.8M Missouri Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death After Routine Catheterization

September 3, 2013

On August 29, 2013, a Missouri medical malpractice jury awarded $10,831,155 to the family of a 34-year-old woman who died after a routine cardiac catheterization in February 2011. The woman left behind her husband and three children, ages 5, 9, and 11. The woman had gone to her doctor due to bronc[...]

Hospital That Threw Out Healthy Donor Kidney Denies It Was Negligent

September 2, 2013

The University of Toledo Medical Center (“UTMC”) in Ohio acknowledges that its nurse threw out as trash the healthy donor kidney that a brother had lovingly donated to his ailing sister but contests that it was negligent in doing so. UTMC is requesting that the medical malpractice law[...]

Indiana Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Against Doctor Who Treated Woman Who Caused Car Accident

September 1, 2013

On August 8, 2013, the Indiana Supreme Court revived a medical malpractice lawsuit filed by a woman who was injured as result of a car collision that named as the medical malpractice defendant the personal physician of the other woman who had caused the serious, head-on collision (“the to[...]

$346,272 Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Veteran’s Death

August 31, 2013

On August 28, 2013, a federal judge in Baltimore, Maryland awarded $346,272 to the family of a veteran who died on October 11, 2007 as a result of medical malpractice at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Baltimore. The 59-year-old veteran had been discharged to home from the VA Medical[...]

A-Rod’s Possible Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

August 30, 2013

It was reported last week that lawyers for New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez (“A-Rod”) are preparing a medical malpractice lawsuit on his behalf against the Yankees’ team doctor, Christopher Ahmad, arising out of an incident that occurred in October 2012, when the Yankees were[...]

Hospital Pharmacist Malpractice

August 29, 2013

Hospital pharmacists are not immune to medical malpractice claims. Such claims may involve the wrong medication being dispensed (especially if the drugs have similar sounding names), the wrong dosage of the drug (such as filling a prescription for 10 ml of a drug when the prescribed dosage was 0.[...]

$15M Indiana Medical Malpractice Verdict For Child Born With Cerebral Palsy

August 28, 2013

On August 23, 2013, an Indiana medical malpractice jury awarded $15 million to the family of a newborn who suffered severe brain damage and developed cerebral palsy allegedly as a result of medical negligence that occurred at a local hospital. The Indiana cap on damages in medical malpractice case[...]

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