Blog - Page 451 of 492 - Medical Malpractice Lawyers

Montana Judge OKs Wrongful Birth Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

June 25, 2012

On June 18, 2012, a Montana state judge gave approval to a medical malpractice case filed in October, 2011 that alleges a claim for wrongful birth. The medical malpractice plaintiffs claimed that had they been advised that their baby would be born with cystic fibrosis, they would have terminated [...]

New Hampshire Medical Malpractice “Early Offer” Bill Vetoed

June 24, 2012

On June 20, 2012, New Hampshire’s Governor John Lynch vetoed the nation’s first “early offer” bill that would have made medical malpractice victims responsible to pay the legal fees of defendant health care providers if they rejected an “early offer” to settle t[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Child’s Brain Injury After Surgery

June 23, 2012

On June 19, 2012, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded $1.1 million for an 11-month-old who suffered brain injury shortly after surgery to remove his tonsils, adenoids, and to place tubes in his ears. The surgery was recommended to treat the little boy’s sleep apnea, which caused h[...]

Possible Michigan Nursing Home Claim For Suspicious Death

June 22, 2012

After an 80-year-old nursing home resident went to take a nap on May 6, 2012, she did not wake up. Her attentive daughter felt that something did not seem right – even though her mother had some medical conditions, she enjoyed life and expressed her decision to her nursing home care providers[...]

Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Mutilated Genitals

June 21, 2012

A federal medical malpractice jury in Baltimore has awarded $1.5 million to a 38-year-old man whose genitals were allegedly mutilated by a flesh-eating bacteria that a local hospital failed to diagnose for over 58 hours. The award in the amount of $1.4 million for noneconomic damages will be auto[...]

District Of Columbia Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitations – Missed By One Day…

June 20, 2012

In an appellate court case decided on May 17, 2012, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s granting judgment in favor of the medical malpractice defendants because the plaintiff was one day late in filing his medical malpractice case. As the Court of Appeals sta[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Kidney Failure

June 19, 2012

On May 18, 2012, a medical malpractice jury in Georgia awarded just over $1 million to a man who had filed a medical malpractice lawsuit that claimed that his doctor had failed to order necessary blood tests and urine tests that should have been ordered and would have prevented the patient fro[...]

New Vascular Testing Guidelines

June 18, 2012

The American College of Cardiology, through its Foundation, recently reviewed common indications when ultrasound and physiological testing (defined as “evaluation of the peripheral circulation based on measurement of limb blood pressures with pulse volume recordings or Doppler waveforms, or [...]

Hospital Safety In The U.S.

June 17, 2012

A non-profit group of employers and private healthcare experts in the United States has issued a report in which it grades safety in hospitals in the U.S. based on the safety of patients. About 400 patients in U.S. hospitals die as a result of hospital errors every day. Those hospital errors [...]

Unnecessary Chemotherapy — Was It Medical Malpractice?

June 16, 2012

When a 5-year-old girl had swelling in her throat that did not go away, her mother brought her to a local emergency room. The doctors who examined the little girl suspected that she had a cancerous tumor and ordered a biopsy. The results of the biopsy were inconclusive, so doctors referred the fami[...]

Las Vegas $4.5 Million Arbitration Award For Nursing Home Claim

June 15, 2012

A medical malpractice case filed against a Las Vegas, Nevada nursing home that alleged that medical malpractice and abuse at the nursing home led to the death of a resident has resulted in an arbitration award in the amount of $4.5 million. The case originally had been filed in Nevada’s sta[...]

Increasing Use Of Imaging Studies Means Higher Radiation Exposure

June 14, 2012

In a study of records from 1996 through 2010 from six large U.S. health systems, it was found that the use of CT scans increased 7.8% per year, from 52 per 1,000 members in 1996 to 149 per 1,000 members in 2010. MRIs increased by 10% per year, from 17 per 1,000 members in 1996 to 65 per [&helli[...]

Daily Blogs