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What’s The Difference Between A Bad Outcome And Medical Malpractice?

December 10, 2024

All medical care and treatment carry risks of an unexpected outcome that is harmful to the patient. For example, when a surgical procedure is recommended to a patient, the medical provider is required to explain to the patient the various alternatives of medical treatment that are available as well [...]

$7.1M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Radiologist For Blindness

December 10, 2024

On September 27, 2024, an Erie County, Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury determined that a 23-year-old woman’s blindness was due to the medical negligence of the radiologist who allegedly misread her head CT scan in November 2020. The woman had gone to the hospital and was admitted for thr[...]

Urine Testing Lab Agrees To Pay $27M To Settle Allegedly False Claims

December 9, 2024

Precision Toxicology, doing business as Precision Diagnostics, has agreed to pay $27 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act and similar state statutes for billing Medicare, Medicaid and other federal health care programs for medically unnecessary urine drug tests, and for prov[...]

Birth Injury Medical Malpractice

December 9, 2024

There are approximately 20,000 infant deaths in the United States every year, and birth injuries account for 20% of those deaths: birth injuries are the fourth leading cause of death among infants. It is estimated that fetal distress occurs in 5% to 10% of deliveries. About 3% of babies are born wit[...]

ProPublica: Formaldehyde Causes More Cancer Than Any Other Toxic Air Pollutant

December 8, 2024

ProPublica reported on December 3, 2024: “In a world flush with hazardous air pollutants, there is one that causes far more cancer than any other, one that is so widespread that nobody in the United States is safe from it. It is a chemical so pervasive that a new analysis by ProPublica found i[...]

Federal Appellate Court Rules IVC Filter Claim Filed Too Late

December 8, 2024

Jessica Gehner was implanted with a Cook Medical inferior vena cava (IVC) filter in Ohio. She later developed abdominal pain, and a March 2013 CT scan revealed that the filter had perforated her IVC. Gehner’s doctors believed that the filter was compressing her small bowel, causing her pain, and r[...]

Breast Cancer Malpractice

December 7, 2024

The Doctor’s Company, the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer in the United States, has published a concise nonexhaustive list of various ways that physicians may be sued for medical malpractice involving the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer: 19 Ways to Get Sued for Bre[...]

Nearly $60M Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Paralysis

December 7, 2024

A Texas medical malpractice jury returned its verdict on September 27, 2024 in the amount of $59.7 million in favor of 33-year-old Kiet “Ricky” Tuan Do against Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas and a physician. Ricky had alleged in his Texas medical malpractice lawsuit that the hospit[...]

Federal District Court Allows Some Of Pro Se Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Claims Against VA

December 6, 2024

On April 4, 2022, Plaintiff filed a personal injury claim with the VA by completing a Standard Form 95 (“SF-95”). Plaintiff sought $500,000 in damages for personal injury – specifically, his acute kidney injury (“AKI”) – resulting from the purported failure of medical professiona[...]

What Are The Types Of Medical Errors? – Part II

December 5, 2024

Surgical Errors Errors in surgery have the highest risk of severe patient injury and death. Intraoperative errors are estimated to be the primary issue in 75% of malpractice cases involving surgeons. Surgical errors involving the wrong site, patient, or procedure should never occur. Investigations i[...]

Medical Errors – Part I

December 4, 2024

One study reported that approximately 400,000 hospitalized patients experience some preventable harm each year, while another estimated that >200,000 patient deaths annually were due to preventable medical errors. Moreover, medical errors have a high cost, with some experts estimat[...]

New York Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Radiologist And MRI Full Body Scan Company For Alleged Missed Findings Leading To Stroke

December 3, 2024

A medical malpractice complaint was filed on September 24, 2024 in the Supreme Court of the State of New York County of New York that alleges, in part: Prenuvo MRI scan failed to document that on July 15, 2023, the Prenuvo MRA sequence shows abrupt focal 60% narrowing and irregularity of the proxima[...]

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