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California Appellate Court Holds That Biliary Stent Is A Foreign Object

February 24, 2014

On May 24, 1996, surgeons implanted a stent in the plaintiff’s bile duct during emergency abdominal surgery, following the man suffering a serious gunshot wound. The plaintiff alleged that he was unaware of the implanted stent until August 10, 2010, when he sought medical treatment fo[...]

California Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Against Absent Cardiac Surgeon

January 14, 2014

A California medical malpractice lawsuit was filed late last month in the Superior Court of California for Fresno County that alleges that a well-known California cardiac surgeon who performed open heart surgery on a patient on April 2, 2012 to treat his ascending aortic aneurysm, failed to rema[...]

San Francisco $1.138 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

September 18, 2012

On September 12, 2012, a San Francisco, California medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the total amount of $1,138,000 in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiffs. The medical malpractice trial lasted one month in the Superior Court during which the medical malpractice jury heard testim[...]

What Is Medical Malpractice? (Maryland, California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina)

September 8, 2012

What is medical malpractice? Here are the “official” definitions of medical malpractice from Maryland, California, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina: Maryland MD. COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, Code Ann. § 3-2A-02 (2012) § 3-2A-02. Exclusiveness of procedures(1) In any a[...]

California Hospital Chain Agrees To Pay $16.5 Million For Illegal Kickback Scheme

August 26, 2012

The FBI has announced that Los Angeles Doctor’s Hospital Inc., which is a subsidiary of Pacific Health Corporation, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud Medicare and Medi-Cal by paying illegal kickbacks to marketers who were paid to recruit homeless people and bring them to the [...]

San Diego Doctor And Medical Device Manufacturer Ordered To Pay $5.2 Million

July 29, 2012

On July 25, 2012, a San Diego medical malpractice jury returned a verdict against an orthopedic doctor (who is the head doctor for the San Diego Chargers football team) and the medical device manufacturer Breg Inc. for the injuries suffered by a 15-year-old girl who underwent knee surgery in 2003.[...]

Dog X-Ray Is Downfall Of California Pill Mill Doctor

July 15, 2012

On July 12, 2012, a California doctor was arrested for allegedly running a pill mill (a medical clinic where prescription medications are readily and easily prescribed, available, and/or dispensed with little or no proper legitimate medical need). The doctor had been under investigation for about t[...]

Disturbing Medical Malpractice History Of California Malpractice Defendant

July 11, 2012

On May 22, 2012, a California medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of nearly $1.2 million in favor of the plaintiffs after a two-week trial (including $908,804 for medical expenses and pain and suffering of the medical malpractice victim and $267,500 to the patient’s husb[...]

Appeal Challenges California’s Medical Malpractice Cap On Noneconomic Damages

July 6, 2012

In 1975, California enacted a law known as The Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (“MICRA”) that limits noneconomic damages (pain and suffering, mental anguish, etc.) for death due to medical malpractice to $250,000. MICRA also requires notification to possible medical malpractice d[...]

California Medical Malpractice Verdict For Obstetrical Malpractice

June 8, 2012

On April 20, 2012, a California medical malpractice jury awarded $74,525,000 to the family of a newborn who suffered a permanent, life-changing brain injury leading to the baby’s cerebral palsy in 2009. The majority of the jury’s award will go towards the payment of the medical expen[...]

Medical Malpractice In California Mental Hospitals

May 18, 2012

Five years ago, the federal government sued the State of California in order to force changes at four California state mental hospitals. The allegations included the overuse of patient restraints, the overuse of medications on patients, and poor patient safety. The lawsuit resulted in the federal [...]

Two Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuits Filed Against California Nursing Home

April 1, 2012

A California nursing home in Northern California recently had two medical malpractice wrongful death cases filed against it for the deaths of two of its residents that occurred during 2011. Case No. 1 In the first case, a man was admitted into the hospital in January, 2011, for treatment of his k[...]

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