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Vermont Medical Malpractice Statistics

December 9, 2011

Vermont is among the states with the fewest medical malpractice claims. According to an official report dated December 15, 2005, the following conclusions regarding medical malpractice and medical malpractice claims in Vermont were made: Vermont medical malpractice costs represent less than 1% of [...]

Wisconsin Medical Malpractice Verdict For Baby’s Severe Birth Injuries

December 8, 2011

Wisconsin is not particularly known for its medical malpractice verdicts but a jury verdict during 2010 supports the proposition that Wisconsin juries will award proper monetary damages when medical malpractice affects babies. In a medical malpractice case decided by a Milwaukee County jury in M[...]

Federal Judge Awards Alaska Medical Malpractice Judgment For 14-Month-Old’s Injuries

December 7, 2011

Medical malpractice can occur anywhere and at any time, even in remote areas like Alaska. In March, 2011, a federal judge with the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska entered a judgment against a health care clinic and a medical corporation that was the parent of the clinic in the amoun[...]

Drugging Our Nursing Home Elderly: Is It Medical Malpractice?

December 6, 2011

In testimony before the U.S. Senate’s Special Committee on Aging on November 30, 2011, the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) provided chilling evidence that elderly nursing home patients with dementia are being given antipsychotic drugs for reason[...]

Maryland Physician’s Failure To Disclose Medical Malpractice Claim Affects His Medical License

December 5, 2011

A Maryland physician was placed on probation and fined in Maryland because he failed to disclose a medical malpractice action against him in his application to renew his Maryland license. The physician was initially licensed to practice medicine in Maryland in 1977. His specialty was obstetrics a[...]

Delay In Diagnosis Of Oral Cancer May Be Medical Malpractice

December 4, 2011

There are approximately 30,000 new cases of oral cancer in the United States every year, resulting in about 9,000 deaths. The main risk factors for oral cancer are tobacco use and alcohol consumption — the greater the use, the higher the risk. Tobacco and alcohol use are associated with ab[...]

New Mexico Medical Malpractice Verdict For Disabled Man

December 3, 2011

Earlier this year, a Las Vegas, New Mexico jury awarded a substantial sum to the estate of a disabled man who suffered painful bed sores that allegedly developed and were not properly treated due to medical malpractice. There was also a claim that the man’s medical records were falsified by [...]

Nebraska Medical Malpractice Claim For 2-Year-Old’s Heparin Death

December 2, 2011

A 23-month-old child with congenital defects was brought by her parents from Texas to the well-regarded transplant center, the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, for major surgery during which her liver, pancreas, and small bowel were transplanted during December, 2009. The child was in[...]

Large Recent Wyoming Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Broken Neck

December 1, 2011

At the end of October, 2011, a federal jury in Wyoming awarded a man whose broken neck was not properly diagnosed a record-breaking $9 million (the prior record was reported to be $1.5 million). The jury found that a board-certified emergency room physician and the hospital that employed him breac[...]

One Of The Largest Kansas Medical Malpractice Verdicts

November 30, 2011

Kansas is known to be one of the most conservative jurisdictions for jury verdicts in medical malpractice cases (when we say “conservative,” we mean low jury verdicts). However, there is one Kansas medical malpractice verdict that stands out from the rest. In the case MLM, by and through[...]

New Jersey Medical Malpractice Verdict Due To Hospital Negligence

November 29, 2011

A 42-year-old mother of five went to a local New Jersey hospital in 2004 with a low sodium level (hyponatremia) that was a chronic condition for her. The treatment rendered by the hospital resulted in the rapid increase in her sodium levels over the period of 14 hours, allegedly leading to severe a[...]

Florida Example Of Hospital Malpractice

November 28, 2011

A concerned 17-year-old Florida mother brought her 3-month-old infant son to a local hospital emergency room in Florida because he had been vomiting and had diarrhea for three days. She and her son were in the emergency department for four and a half hours before she was told that it was safe[...]

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