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California Jail Medical Provider Remains As Defendant In Prision Suicide Case

January 1, 2025

Jose Banda Pichardo, a 22-year-old with mental health issues, was arrested on Octiober 27, 2018 and booked into the Imperial County Regional Adult Detention Facility (Imperial County jail) where he reportedly disclosed that he suffered from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety, an[...]

Study Finds Nursing Homes That Upcoded Residents’ Conditions Resulted In More Preventable Conditions, More Hospitalizations, And More Deaths

December 31, 2024

The abstract to a study published in October 2024 entitled Overbilling and Killing? An Examination of the Skilled Nursing Industry states: “Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) systems that provided excess rehab therapy just above revenue thresholds quickly begin upcoding previously unidentified com[...]

Did Patient’s Undocumented, Uninsured Status Lead To Failure To Provide Proper Medical Care?

December 30, 2024

An Arizona medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that the undocumented, uninsured status of a patient led to the failure to provide timely appropriate care, which led to his death. The Arizona medical malpractice lawsuit alleges violation of EMTALA (the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Ac[...]

Iowa Nursing Home Lawsuit Alleges Wrongful Death Of Resident Who Was Having Difficulty Breathing

December 29, 2024

A wrongful death medical malpractice lawsuit, the second in recent months, has been filed against an Iowa nursing home for the death of a 58-year-old resident who was admitted just four days prior for rehabilitation following a leg amputation. The family’s lawsuit was filed against Parkridge S[...]

$30M Connecticut Medical Malpractice Verdict For Injuries To Mother’s Bladder And Uterus During C-Section

December 28, 2024

At the conclusion of four hours of jury deliberations after a three-week trial, a Connecticut birth injury medical malpractice jury awarded $30.3 million in economic and noneconomic damages against an OB and her medical practice. The then 32-year-old woman was under the care of the defendant medica[...]

$1.5M Massachusetts Settlement For Tinnitus And Hearing Loss After MRI

December 27, 2024

On November 11, 2023, a Massachusetts medical malpractice claim involving a 62-year-old woman who developed tinnitus and hearing loss immediately after undergoing an MRI for a hand injury in July 2020 during which she allegedly was not provided proper ear protection settled her claim for $1.5 millio[...]

Ohio Supreme Court Allows Medical Malpractice Defendant To Raise Defective Service Of Process Defense Two Years Into Litigation

December 26, 2024

The administrator of a deceased woman’s estate filed a complaint alleging medical malpractice and wrongful death against a doctor, the doctor’s employer, a hospital, and Medicare. The doctor and his employer filed an answerthat included the affirmative defenses of insufficiency of process and in[...]

$11.9M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Settlement For Mother’s Catastrophic Injury During Delivery

December 25, 2024

Estefania Mesa was 28-years-old when she went to Hoboken University Medical Center on July 20, 2020 to deliver her first child at nearly 40 weeks of pregnancy. A C-section delivery was performed after the baby was determined to be in fetal distress. The family claimed in their New Jersey medical mal[...]

Ohio Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Despite Juror Concerns

December 24, 2024

Harold Price suffered from chronic kidney disease. In 2017, his nephrologist noted a possible lesion on his left kidney following an ultrasound. The doctor ordered an MRI and biopsy of that kidney. The MRI also revealed a lesion on the right kidney. A recommendation was made to obtain a repeat scan [...]

$11M New Jersey Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Perforated Esophagus Following Surgery

December 23, 2024

A New Jersey medical malpractice jury awarded a 66-year-old woman who suffered a perforated esophagus that was not timely diagnosed postoperatively $10 million, and her late husband $1 million for his loss of consortium, on September 10, 2024. The jury found the defendant medical practice negligent [...]

Arizona Medical Malpractice Case Filed For Paralysis Due To Delayed Hospital Diagnosis Of Spinal Abscess

December 22, 2024

An Arizona medical malpractice lawsuit seeking $13 million in compensatory damages on behalf of a 40-year-old woman who became paralyzed due to the alleged delay in receiving diagnostic services for a spinal abscess in an Arizona hospital was filed against physicians, nurses, and other medical staff[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Ophthalmologist In Cataract Surgery Malpractice Case

December 21, 2024

In October 2013, Ralph Carter (the decedent), who had a long, significant history of alcohol abuse, presented to the defendant Jonathan Ellant, an ophthalmologist, with vision issues. Upon determining that the decedent had cataracts in each eye, Ellant recommended that the decedent have surgery perf[...]

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