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$1.5M Medical Malpractice Settlement Involving Rare Pregnancy Complication Leading To Brain Damage

June 14, 2025

On January 15, 2025, a Virginia medical malpractice claim involving a 21-year-old woman who was pregnant with her first baby in 2021 and who suffered brain damage as a result of a rare complication of pregnancy, was settled for $1.5 million. The Virginia medical malpractice claim was against her OBG[...]

Federal Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of FTCA Medical Malpractice Case Due To Defective Expert Affidavit

June 13, 2025

Mario Mancini, who has been incarcerated since 2002, has served his prison term at the Federal Correctional Institution at Sandstone, Minnesota (FCI Sandstone) since 2014. In the 1990s, prior to his incarceration, Mancini sustained a workplace injury. He has since endured consequent neck and back pa[...]

Federal Court Enters Summary Judgment For Maryland Nursing Home

June 12, 2025

Plaintiff is the daughter of Louise Longus (“Decedent”). Decedent underwent a below the knee amputation at a hospital in Washington, D.C. On January 7 or 8, 2017, Decedent was transferred to Fairland Center (the “Facility”) for rehabilitation. While Decedent was at the Facility, Decedent tol[...]

Catholic Hospital In Idaho Drops Argument In Medical Malpractice Case That An Unborn Child Is Not A Person

June 11, 2025

On April 13, 2021, Miranda Anderson was 34 weeks pregnant when she went to Pella Regional Health Center for evaluation of her elevated blood pressure, headaches, and edema. She was transferred by ambulance to MercyOne’s Obstetrics Emergency Unit due to concerns that she was experiencing preeclamps[...]

Former Owner Of Nursing Homes Throughout U.S. Sentenced To 36 Months For $38 Million Tax Fraud Scheme

June 10, 2025

A New York man was sentenced to 36 months in prison for his role in a $38 million employment tax fraud scheme involving nursing homes he owned across the country. Joseph Schwartz, 65, of Suffern, New York, previously pled guilty to two counts of an indictment charging him with willfully fa[...]

Minnesota Couple Indicted In $15 Million Medical Billing Fraud Scheme

June 9, 2025

On April 10, 2025, an indictment was unsealed alleging that Gabriel Langford and Elizabeth Brown, a Minnesota couple, engaged in a $15 million scheme to defraud Medicare, Medicaid, and other insurers by overbilling for neurofeedback therapy, following the couple’s arrest and initial appearances in[...]

California Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Side Effects Of Oxbryta Resulted In Death

June 8, 2025

A recently filed California medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that on March 28, 2024, Nbubuisi Madu tragically lost his life, after succumbing to the injuries suffered due to all Defendants’ negligence, which included sickle cell crisis, vaso occlusive crisis, veno-occlusive disease, acute c[...]

$2M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Verdict For Botched Tendon Repair Surgery

June 7, 2025

On January 21, 2025, a New Jersey medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2,040,000 in favor of a man who suffered nerve injury and required further surgery after undergoing a torn tendon repair surgery. The New Jersey medical malpractice plaintiff alleged that during the Feb[...]

Delaware Lawsuit Alleges Detox Facility Was Negligent In Patient’s Death

June 6, 2025

A recently filed Delaware lawsuit alleges that MeadowWood Behavioral Health Hospital (“MeadowWood”), a facility in New Castle County, Delaware that provides detoxification services to patients, was negligent in treating 33-year-old David H. Tymitz in 2023, five days after he had been adm[...]

Federal Appellate Court Upholds Jury’s Verdict For Compensatory Damages In Jail Deliberate Indifference Case But Finds Punitive Damages Award Excessive

June 5, 2025

The evidence at trial showed that on the morning of Saturday, August 25, 2018, NaphCare, Inc.’s (“NaphCare”) nurse Hannah Neill-Gubitz (“Gubitz”) found Cindy Lou Hill (“Hill”) lying shirtless on the floor of her cell and screaming in pain at the Spokane County Jail (“the [...]

Texas Federal District Court Vacates Certain Nursing Home Staffing Mandates

June 4, 2025

Congress’s past enactments require each Medicare or Medicaid nursing home to “provide 24-hour licensed nursing services which are sufficient to meet the nursing needs of its residents” and to “use the services of a registered professional nurse for at least 8 consecutive hours a day, 7 d[...]

$29M Wisconsin Midwife Malpractice Verdict

June 3, 2025

In their Wisconsin birth injury medical malpractice lawsuit, Breauanna Jennings et al. vs. Robyn Cox CNM et al., the plaintiffs argued that their child, August Jennings, was born almost an hour after the standard of care required the certified nurse midwife who was attending the labor and deliv[...]

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