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Federal Judge Awards $9.8M For Birth Injury

November 10, 2015

After an eight-day medical malpractice trial before a U.S. District Court judge in Sacramento, California, the judge ruled on October 28, 2015 that an obstetrician who worked at a federally-funded health care facility was medically negligent when he waited too long before delivering the plaintiff&[...]

Who Employs The Doctor Who Treats You In The Hospital?

November 27, 2013

When you go to the hospital to receive medical care for an acute or chronic condition, you often do not have a choice of the doctors who will treat you. When you arrive at the hospital emergency room, you probably have never been treated in the past by the doctor who treats you and you probably h[...]

Federal Appellate Court Reinstates Wyoming Medical Malpractice Verdict

July 19, 2013

By its Order and Judgment dated July 2, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (which includes Wyoming) reinstated the $2 million verdict for a wife’s loss of consortium claim awarded by a federal Wyoming medical malpractice jury, and upheld the $7 million verdict in favor of th[...]

VA Medical Center Medical Malpractice Claim Settled For $500,000

January 8, 2013

The VA Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio has agreed to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by a widow for the death of her husband as a result of alleged medical malpractice for $500,000, which has been approved by a federal judge of the U.S. District Court in Akron, Ohio. The medical malpr[...]

Florida Supreme Court Expected To Rule On Florida’s Medical Malpractice Cap Soon

December 31, 2012

The Florida Supreme Court heard oral arguments in February, 2012 in a case that may determine the constitutionality of Florida’s cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases that was enacted in 2003 (the cap is $500,000 or $1 million under certain circumstances, depending on the[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Claim For Death Of Undocumented Immigrant

April 4, 2012

The surviving wife of an “undocumented” Mexican immigrant has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. government for the death of her husband while he was in the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The federal lawsuit claims that the U.S. governmen[...]

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