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Texas Midwife Arrested For Alleged Illegal Abortions

May 11, 2025

On March 17, 2025, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, for allegedly providing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of clinics in the Northwest Houston area. Rojas, a midwife known as “Dr. Maria,” was taken into custody in Waller Co[...]

New OIG Report On Nursing Home Emergency Preparedness Programs Failures

May 10, 2025

In 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took steps to bolster nursing home emergency preparedness and response through enhanced Requirements for Participation (RfPs). Nursing homes must meet these RfPs to begin or continue participating in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. [...]

$375K Medical Malpractice Settlement For Negligence Following Jaw Surgery In South Carolina

May 9, 2025

A South Carolina woman had jaw surgery (Lefort 1 osteotomy and bilateral sagittal split osteotomy) on June 16, 2020 at the Medical University of South Carolina (“MUSC”). She alleged in her South Carolina medical malpractice lawsuit that her medical providers failed to properly investigat[...]

Delirium Still A Problem In Nursing Homes

May 8, 2025

A study published on March 17, 2025 in JAMA Network Open entitled “Persistence of Delirium in Postacute Care at Skilled Nursing Facilities” stated, in part: “Annually, more than 2 million Medicare beneficiaries are discharged from acute care hospitals to skilled nursing facilities [...]

Illinois Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For 28-Year-Old’s Death From Misdiagnosed Aortic Dissection

May 7, 2025

A 28-year-old man went to the emergency room of an Illinois hospital on April 27, 2023 with complaints of chest pain, blurred vision, dizziness, lightheadedness, and difficulty breathing. He told the medical staff that his symptoms began two days prior, that he started vomiting the day before his ER[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Rules Hospital Entitled To COVID-19 Immunity In Medication Malpractice Case

May 6, 2025

Gregory Turner was admitted to Kennestone Hospital (“Hospital”) where he was diagnosed with COVID-19 on November 7, 2021. As part of his treatment, he was prescribed anticoagulants, including the medication Heparin, on November 15, 2021. The medication was ordered at 7:53 a.m., and an in[...]

New Mexico’s Effort To Constrain Medical Malpractice Cases Fails

May 5, 2025

SB176 Senate Bill 176 proposed amendments to the Medical Malpractice Act (“the MMA”) that would limit Patient Compensation Fund (“PCF”) payments for future medical care and related benefits, limit contingent attorney fees in MMA cases, and divert a portion of punitive damages awards that cus[...]

80% Of Pregnancy-Related Deaths Are Preventable

May 4, 2025

According to the state-based Maternal Mortality Review Committees, more than 80% of pregnancy-related deaths in the United States are preventable. The Global Burden of Disease study estimated a maternal mortality rate of 26.4 deaths per 100,000 live births in the United States in 2015, which was par[...]

Idaho Supreme Court Tanks Legal Malpractice Claim Filed Against Plaintiffs’ Former Medical Malpractice Attorney

May 4, 2025

In their legal malpractice case, Julene and William Dodd sued their attorney, Rory Jones, after he missed the statute of limitations deadline for filing their medical malpractice lawsuit. “Plaintiffs in legal malpractice cases shoulder a heavy burden. They must try two cases: The legal malpractice[...]

$9M Michigan Medical Malpractice Settlement For Twin Who Suffered Catastrophic Injuries Due To Delayed Delivery

May 3, 2025

The pregnant mother of twins went to the hospital at 28 weeks of pregnancy complaining of abdominal pain that began three hours before her arrival. She was seen by a physician’s assistant who had difficulty finding fetal heartbeats. A first-year resident was summoned and he too could not find feta[...]

$75M Georgia Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict Affirmed For 32-Year-Old With Locked-In Syndrome Due To Misdiagnosis Of Brainstem Stroke Following Chiropractic Treatment

May 2, 2025

At around 4:20 p.m. on October 26, 2015, 32-year-old Jonathan Buckelew arrived by ambulance to the emergency department of North Fulton Hospital after he experienced seizure-like activity and became unresponsive during a chiropractic neck adjustment. Although the hospital was a primary stroke center[...]

New Jersey Supreme Court Holds Non-Party In Medical Malpractice Case Should Not Be On Verdict Form, But Is Subject To Allocation Of Fault

May 1, 2025

After the death of Crystal Walcott Spill, her estate and beneficiaries brought a New Jersey wrongful death suit against doctors who treated her. Spill was under the care of Jenny T. Diep, M.D., a rheumatologist based in New York. Spillalso received unrelated care from Jacob E. Markovitz, M.D., a gyn[...]

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