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New York $1.6 Million Settlement For Shoulder Dystocia Birth Injury

May 13, 2013

In April 2013, a $1.6 million New York medical malpractice settlement was reached with the medical malpractice defendant hospital and the hospital’s chief resident as a result of alleged medical negligence in properly recognizing and managing a baby’s shoulder dystocia during delivery[...]

Tennessee Court Of Appeals Upholds Pre-Suit Notice Requirement

May 12, 2013

On April 17, 2013, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee turned down a constitutional challenge and upheld Tennessee Code Annotated Section 29-26-121, which requires a medical malpractice claimant to provide notice sixty days prior to filing suit, holding that section 29-26-121 is not an unconstitutio[...]

South Carolina Hospital Hit With $40 Million Verdict For Illegal Kickbacks

May 11, 2013

After four weeks of trial in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, on May 8, 2013 a South Carolina hospital was found to have paid illegal kickbacks to 19 doctors and wrongfully billed Medicare almost $40 million between 2005 and 2009 to have the doctors continue to[...]

Tennessee Supreme Court Finds Medical Malpractice Case Was Filed Too Late

May 10, 2013

In a May 9, 2013 decision by the Supreme Court of Tennessee (“Tennessee Supreme Court”), the Court held that the parents of a child who died allegedly as a result of medical negligence in a county hospital filed their medical malpractice case too late and therefore were precluded fr[...]

Colorado Nursing Home Hit With $3.7 Million Verdict For Resident’s Death

May 9, 2013

On May 6, 2013, a Pueblo, Colorado medical malpractice jury awarded the surviving daughter of a nursing home resident $3.7 million, which included $200,000 for compensatory damages and $3.5 million in punitive damages, for the alleged medical malpractice of the nursing home staff that resulted in [...]

Alabama Lawsuit Alleges Medical Study Put Premature Infants At Risk

May 8, 2013

On April 18, 2013, the parents of five Alabama children filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama in which they allege that a study conducted at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and at other institutions that sought to determine the best level[...]

How Does The Affordable Care Act Affect Me? (Part I)

May 7, 2013

The Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) requires most U.S. citizens and legal residents to have health insurance and creates state-based American Health Benefit Exchanges (“AHBE”) through which individuals can purchase coverage. The ACA makes available to individuals and to families[...]

VA Researcher’s Meningitis Death Sparks Federal Lawsuit

May 6, 2013

The family of a 25-year-old medical researcher who died in April 2012 from a rare form of meningitis (Neisseria meningitis) for which he was working on a vaccine as an employee of the Northern California Institute for Research and Education at the San Francisco Veterans Memorial Hospital lab run b[...]

Maryland Stent Case Settled

May 5, 2013

A Maryland medical malpractice case filed by 21 medical malpractice plaintiffs against a former Maryland stent doctor and the hospital where he allegedly performed unnecessary cardiac stent procedures has settled. The Maryland medical malpractice trial had started on April 1, 2013 in the Circuit Cou[...]

Medical Malpractice Payout Statistics For 2012

May 4, 2013

The results of an analysis of the medical malpractice payouts during 2012 that are reported in the National Practitioner Data Bank have been recently published. The analysis found that there were 12,142 total medical malpractice payouts in the United States during 2012, representing $3.6 billion i[...]

Did Hooters Help Novartis’ Drug Sales?

May 3, 2013

Late last month it was announced by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division that the United States has intervened in a whistleblower lawsuit filed on January 5, 2011, under the qui t[...]

Missouri State Senators Looking To Harm Medical Malpractice Victims (Again)

May 2, 2013

On April 30, 2013, Missouri state senators debated proposed new legislation (House Bill 112) that would reinstate a $350,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases that the Supreme Court of Missouri had held in its July 31, 2012 decision in the Watts v. Lester E. Cox Medical Cen[...]

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