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South Carolina Federal Court Denies Defendants’ Motions To Dismiss In Filshie Clips Migration Case

January 17, 2024

On September 7, 2023, the federal court in South Carolina denied the Defendants’ respective motions to dismiss the Plaintiffs’ Filshie clips migration case. The federal court stated in its opinion, in part: Plaintiffs bring claims against Defendants for (1) design defect; (2) manufacturi[...]

Study Describes Role Of Hospital Diagnostic Errors That Lead To ICU Admissions Or Death In The Hospital

January 16, 2024

A study published on January 8, 2024 in JAMA Network entitled Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Adults Who Died or Were Transferred to Intensive Care investigated how often diagnostic errors happen in adult patients who are transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) or die in the hospital, what ca[...]

$2M Iowa Medical Malpractice Settlement Approved For Woman Who Died From Reaction To Contrast Dye Used During MRI

January 15, 2024

Katherine Decker, 70, went to University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics (“UIHC”) on December 12, 2018 for outpatient magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) of a suspicious mass in her breast. The initial MRI scans were performed without contrast dye during which Mrs. Decker was [...]

Missouri Appellate Court Affirms New Trial For Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Where Defense Expert Changed Testimony At Trial

January 14, 2024

The parents of Z.R. brought a Missouri medical malpractice action asserting that the defendants negligently failed to evaluate and treat her bilateral hip dysplasia when she was an infant. Hip dysplasia is most often diagnosed while the child is a newborn. Pavlik harnesses are commonly prescribed to[...]

Connecticut Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Teen Died After Fourth Trip To ER Over Several Days

January 13, 2024

The parents of a 16-year-old high school student allege in their Connecticut medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit that Henry Farmer V was taken to the ER of Stanford Hospital on April 8, 2022, for a persistent dry cough lasting for at least 45 minutes. He was provided humidified air, which app[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Holds EMT’s Negligence Claims Against Hospital Were Medical In Nature

January 12, 2024

The Appellate Court of Illinois First District Fourth Division (“Illinois Appellate Court”) held in its Order filed on November 2, 2023 that the defendant hospital did not have a duty to warn a non-agent independent contractor EMT of a patient’s violent criminal record, and that the EM[...]

Pennsylvania Nurse Charged With Giving Excessive Doses Of Insulin To 17 Patients

January 11, 2024

The Pennsylvania Attorney General announced on November 2, 2023 dozens of new charges have been filed against Heather Pressdee, 41, a western Pennsylvania nurse, who was previously charged with homicide and attempted murder for patients in her care. Pressdee allegedly administered lethal doses of in[...]

$2.1M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict Upheld On Appeal Despite Defense Request For Mistrial

January 10, 2024

Background Facts In March 2019, Dr. Colleen Connor, an employee of Mid-Atlantic Women’s Care, P.L.C., performed a total abdominalhysterectomy on Gloria Kontaratos, with assistance from Dr. Seifeldin Sadek, a medical resident. At approximately 11:00 a.m. on the day following surgery, Kontaratos rep[...]

$2M Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict Upheld For Fall And Death Caused By Hospital Stretcher Not Properly Locked

January 9, 2024

An 86-year-old retired Greek Orthodox priest, who walked with a quad cane, fell while undressing for an ultrasound, suffering head and brain bleeds that resulted in his death. After the priest was admitted into the intensive care unit, he was interviewed by Dr. Tadros. In a written medical report, D[...]

$2.8M Arizona Medical Malpractice Verdict Upheld For Esophagus Tear During Unnecessary Surgery

January 8, 2024

In its Memorandum Opinion filed on October 31, 2023, the Court of Appeals of Arizona Division I (“Arizona Appellate Court”) held: “Although hotly disputed, the trial evidence permitted a reasonable jury to conclude that Pitt’s conduct fell below the reasonable standard of care wh[...]

HHS Proposes Rule Establishing Disincentives For Health Care Providers That Have Committed Information Blocking

January 7, 2024

On October 30, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule for public comment that would establish disincentives for health care providers found by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) to have committed information blocking – when a provider[...]

Filshie Clip Migration Lawsuit Filed In Connecticut Federal Court

January 6, 2024

On January 2, 2024, a federal lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut against CooperSurgical, Inc., The Cooper Companies, Inc., Femcare, Ltd. – UK subsidiary of Utah Medical Products, Inc., and Utah Medical Products, Inc. that alleges, in part: Filshie[...]

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