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Iowa Medical Malpractice Jury Considers Emergency Room Negligence Claim

October 10, 2012

A medical malpractice jury in Iowa was unable to reach a decision in a medical malpractice case as of Monday, October 8, 2012. The jury deliberated for about three hours before being sent home and instructed to return to court on October 9, 2012 to continue with its deliberations. The medical malpra[...]

Georgia $5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Amputation of Both Legs

October 1, 2012

On September 24, 2012, after more than one week of trial and over two-and-a-half hours of deliberations, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $5 million for a woman who had both of her legs amputated below the knees as a result of what the jury found to be medica[...]

Tennessee $7.8 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Necrotizing Fasciitis

September 3, 2012

On August 3, 2012, after a 15-day medical malpractice jury trial in Tennessee, a medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $7,816,740 in favor of a now-20-year-old man whose cut on his knee due to a fall onto an exposed nail in 2004 when he was 12-years-old was improperly trea[...]

$15 Million Colorado Medical Malpractice Verdict For Paralysis

August 6, 2012

Following a three-week trial that ended in late-July, 2012, a Colorado Springs, Colorado medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $15 million against a hospital and an emergency room physician for medical negligence that allegedly resulted in the paralysis of a 36-year-ol[...]

Colorado Medical Malpractice Verdict Finally Paid

April 21, 2012

When a 34-year-old woman arrived at a local Fort Collins, Colorado hospital Emergency Department in December, 2006, she complained to the emergency room doctor that she had the worst headache of her life and that she was weak and dizzy. The emergency room doctor diagnosed the woman’s condit[...]

Patient Dumping Settlements In 2011

March 10, 2012

The Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (“OIG”) has reported the following settlements involving patient dumping cases in 2011 that resulted in the payment of a civil monetary penalty (the settling parties denied the patient dumping allega[...]

Kentucky Medical Malpractice Jury Awards Man’s Estate $1.45 Million, After 13 Years

March 7, 2012

Back in 1999, a paraplegic man went to a local Kentucky hospital’s emergency room, complaining of abdominal pain along with vomiting and constipation that were treated with an enema and pain medication before the man was discharged from the emergency room. That night, the man was vomiting b[...]

New York Medical Malpractice Settlement For Woman Who Lost Both Hands, Both Feet, And One Eye

March 6, 2012

A Brooklyn, New York mother has received a settlement from the city of Brooklyn, New York and from a local Brooklyn hospital and two of its doctors for her severe losses suffered as a result of alleged medical malpractice that cost her her feet, her hands, and her sight in one eye. In September,[...]

New Jersey Medical Malpractice Verdict For Man Who Died From Pulmonary Embolism

February 29, 2012

A man went to a local New Jersey hospital’s emergency room to be examined and treated for chest pains and shortness of breath that he feared might be serious. He was seen in the emergency room by a doctor who diagnosed the man as having a virus. The emergency room doctor discharged the man to[...]

New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Undiagnosed Aneurysm

February 22, 2012

When a 49-year-old man walked into a New York hospital’s emergency room in November, 2007, he complained to the emergency room physician of classic signs of an aortic aneurysm (an aneurysm is a balloon-like bulge in an artery caused by certain medical conditions, genetic conditions, or traum[...]

Philadelphia Emergency Room Malpractice Leads To Man’s Death — And His Watch Stolen From His Wrist

February 12, 2012

A 63-year-old man who felt pain going down his right side walked several blocks from his home to a local Philadelphia hospital emergency room where the emergency room hospital staff registered him. He spoke with other waiting patients in the emergency room for about twenty minutes. About 80 minutes[...]

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