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Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Hospital Puts Its Profits Above Patients’ Health

May 13, 2016

In a Florida medical malpractice case filed on April 21, 2016, the father of a 31-year-old woman who died as a result of a heart attack that she suffered while in the emergency room of the defendant hospital alleges that the hospital put its profits above the health of his daughter by failing to[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Jury Returns Compromised Verdict For The Plaintiff

April 12, 2016

The members of a Georgia medical malpractice jury apparently could not all agree whether to find for the plaintiff or the defendant hospital in a medical malpractice case, and therefore returned its verdict on February 29, 2016, after a nine-day trial and two days of deliberations, in favor of the[...]

$10M Alabama Medical Malpractice Verdict For Missed Meningitis Diagnosis In Infant

February 17, 2016

On February 12, 2016, an Alabama medical malpractice jury awarded a seriously injured child and his family $10 million for the missed diagnosis of bacterial meningitis when the child was three months old, resulting in the child’s permanent brain injury. As a result of the alleged negligent fai[...]

Florida Woman Died After Hospital Called Police To Remove Her From The ER

February 9, 2016

On December 21, 2015, a 57-year-old Florida woman went to the local hospital emergency room, complaining of abdominal pain. When the hospital staff attempted to discharge her from the ER, she complained that she was having trouble breathing. Instead of evaluating the woman’s breathing compla[...]

$950K Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Misdiagnosis Of Cardiac Condition

January 17, 2016

Ford County, Illinois is known as a very conservative jurisdiction for medical malpractice cases but on December 11, 2015, a Ford County medical malpractice jury took just four hours of deliberations to award $950,000 in compensatory damages to the family of a 73-year-old man who died as a result of[...]

Cat Bite Leads To Michigan Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

December 23, 2015

A 41-year-old Michigan woman who was bitten by a cat and then received allegedly inadequate emergency medical care at a local hospital has filed a medical malpractice case against the Michigan hospital, and others, seeking compensatory damages in excess of $75,000. The Michigan medical malpractic[...]

New Hampshire ER Misdiagnosed Disabled Man’s Neck Fracture – Twice

December 19, 2015

The family of a severely disabled nonverbal New Hampshire man is demanding answers for why their severely disabled relative’s neck fracture was misdiagnosed by a local hospital’s ER, twice, leading to his unnecessary agonizing pain. The man was no stranger to the New Hampshire hospital [...]

New Mexico Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Hospital Drug Overdose Caused Patient’s Death

November 23, 2015

A New Mexico medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit was filed in early November 2015 on behalf of the estate of a Santa Fe, New Mexico woman who died on June 29, 2015 in a Denver, Colorado hospital, where she had been transferred to from a local New Mexico hospital on June 25, 2015 after rece[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Hospital’s Failure to Diagnose Cauda Equina Syndrome

November 9, 2015

A federal medical malpractice lawsuit was filed in Maryland in late October 2015 against a Maryland hospital, alleging that the hospital’s emergency room staff failed to timely diagnose the plaintiff’s serious back condition, including cauda equina syndrome, and discharged the plaintif[...]

PA Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges ER Responsible For 15-Year-Old’s Death

November 6, 2015

A Pennsylvania wrongful death medical malpractice lawsuit scheduled for trial in January 2016 alleges that the defendant hospital, its emergency room physician, and others were medically negligent in discharging a 15-year-old patient from the emergency room before properly treating him and diagnosi[...]

$2.2M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Verdict For Paraplegia

November 4, 2015

On October 23, 2015, a 12-person Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury found in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $2.2 million ($300,000 for past pain and suffering, $1.7 million for future pain and suffering, and $200,000 for the injured party’s wife, for her loss of consortium claim)[...]

Two New York Hospitals Sued After Patient Dies – Twice

October 17, 2015

A 46-year-old man suffered an apparent heart attack while in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, in October 2014. A bystander performed CPR on the man until an ambulance arrived and took the man to the hospital. Within minutes after arriving at the hospital, the man was declared dead. When the man[...]

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