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D.C. Cardiologist Ordered To Pay More Than $17 Million For Fraudulent Claims

August 3, 2013

Earlier this week, a nuclear cardiologist who has practiced in the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) since 2002, and two of his companies, had a judgment entered against them in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in excess of $17 million for submitting false nucle[...]

Medical Malpractice Physician Survey Results

August 2, 2013

In a recently reported survey of physicians in the United States, almost 1,400 of the responding physicians reported that they had been sued for medical malpractice (approximately 40% of the respondents had been named in a medical malpractice lawsuit, with 9% being named as the only defendant a[...]

District Of Columbia Court Of Appeals Affirms $6.5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 1, 2013

On July 25, 2013, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals upheld a $6.5 million verdict for inadequate prenatal care that led to the premature birth and severe and permanent injuries suffered by a newborn. The Washington, D.C. medical malpractice claim alleged that on March 5, 1987, the woman w[...]

Is There New Hope For California Medical Malpractice Victims?

July 31, 2013

California has one of the most unfair, draconian caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases that has not changed in nearly 40 years (the price of gasoline in California in 1975 was 58.7 cents per gallon (source) when the California Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act was enacted[...]

Tennessee $33.5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Cerebral Palsy Birth Injury

July 30, 2013

On July 15, 2013, a Tennessee medical malpractice jury awarded $33.5 million against an obstetrician and his employer for the obstetrician’s alleged failure to perform a timely cesarean section delivery that resulted in the newborn’s severe and permanent brain injury and a form of cereb[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death From Blood Clot After Hip Replacement Surgery

July 29, 2013

A Pennsylvania judge approved a $1 million settlement during July 2013 in a Pennsylvania medical malpractice (wrongful death) lawsuit brought by the surviving wife of a 56-year-old man who suffered a blood clot three weeks after hip replacement surgery that allegedly was misdiagnosed and caused [...]

Illinois $1 Million Verdict For Carpal Tunnel Surgery Nerve Injury

July 28, 2013

On June 8, 2013, an Illinois medical malpractice jury awarded an 82-old-woman $1,066,000.00 in compensatory damages for injuries she suffered when her surgeon cut her median nerve during carpal tunnel surgery. The medical malpractice defendants argued that injury to the median nerve during carpel [...]

A New Lyme Disease Vaccine?

July 27, 2013

Efforts are being made toward a new and effective Lyme disease vaccine. Baxter Healthcare Corporation has recently reported the results of its Phase 1/2 Lyme Vaccine Study that began on March 1, 2011 and ended on May 8, 2012. Study participants received three primary immunizations and one booster [...]

New York Surgeon Removes Wrong Kidney

July 26, 2013

A 76-year-old New York man with kidney disease was scheduled to have surgery to remove his diseased kidney (both of his kidneys were diseased but only the more diseased kidney was to be removed). For some unexplained reason, his surgeon removed the wrong kidney (his less diseased kidney). Realizin[...]

Florida Nursing Home Negligence Jury Verdict: $1.2 BILLION

July 25, 2013

On July 22, 2013, a Florida jury awarded $1.2 billion to the family of a 69-year-old nursing home resident who died after repeated falls in the nursing home that the nursing home negligently failed to prevent. The nursing home negligence lawsuit was filed in 2009 and involved years of legal ma[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Ectopic Pregnancy

July 24, 2013

On July 18, 2013, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $513,129.00 for the loss of her fallopian tube due to a certified nurse midwife’s alleged negligent failure to diagnose her ectopic pregnancy. The jury deliberated for 90 mi[...]

Malpractice Lawyers – Are The Noble Champions Of Malpractice Victims An Endangered Species?

July 23, 2013

Many people have heard malpractice lawyer jokes or digs against malpractice lawyers. Most of these same people mindlessly laugh when they hear these jokes, because they do not know any malpractice attorneys, they have no idea how malpractice lawyers are the protectors of the innocent and helpl[...]

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