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Investigation Finds Hundreds Of Florida Doctors With Multiple Medical Malpractice Payouts Still Practicing Despite Three Strikes Law

June 1, 2019

A Florida news organization reports that it found “[h]undreds of Florida doctors have paid out multiple malpractice claims – putting patients at risk 15 years after voters passed a law that was supposed to take away their licenses … Florida doctors paid out more than $460 million for m[...]

Florida Oncologist Sentenced To Almost 6 Years In Prison For Providing Patients With Unapproved Cancer Drugs

August 25, 2017

On August 7, 2017, a Florida oncologist was sentenced to 5 years and 10 months in prison after she was found guilty on November 18, 2016 by a federal jury following a nine-day trial for her receipt and delivery of misbranded drugs, smuggling goods into the United States, health care fraud, and mail [...]

$21.6M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict For Deadly Delay In Breast Cancer Diagnosis

May 28, 2017

A 47-year-old former emergency room nurse recently obtained a $21.6 million Florida medical malpractice verdict against an ultrasound technician and the doctor who was interpreting the ultrasound for their alleged medical negligence in failing to diagnose her breast cancer. The judge in the Florida [...]

Florida Appellate Court Finds Hospital Admission Claim Was A Medical Malpractice Claim

September 21, 2016

In its opinion filed on July 20, 2016, the District Court of Appeal for the State of Florida Fourth District (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the dismissal of the plaintiff’s complaint alleging that the defendant hospital and defendant psychiatrist were negligent in having the decedent[...]

Florida Butt Lift Doctor’s Medical License Restricted

March 29, 2016

An Order of Emergency Restriction of License was issued by the State of Florida Department of Health on February 17, 2016, which immediately restricted a Florida physician who specialized in performing butt lifts and liposuction procedures on women at a Florida surgery center, from performing lipo[...]

Florida Plastic Surgeon Sued By Three Former Breast Implant Patients

January 21, 2016

A Jacksonville, Florida plastic surgeon and his medical practice have been sued by three former breast augmentation patients, within a period of four days in October 2015, alleging that the plastic surgeon was negligent in performing their multiple breast implant surgeries. In each of the cases, th[...]

Florida Appellate Court Allows Auto Insurer To Subrogate In Medical Malpractice Case

July 29, 2015

In its written opinion filed on July 24, 2015, the District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida Fifth District (“Appellate Court”) decided in a 2-to-1 decision that the tortfeasor involved in a motor vehicle accident and her automobile liability insurance company have a right to[...]

Florida Man Dies In Jail Several Hours After DUI Arrest

May 30, 2015

On May 18, 2013, a 41-year-old father of four with no criminal history was arrested in Florida for alleged DUI. Several hours later, he was found dead in his jail cell, allegedly due to the medical negligence of the jail personnel and an on-call doctor who failed to provide the man with necessary me[...]

Florida Lawyer Paralyzed After Neck Surgery Files Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

April 17, 2015

A Florida medical malpractice lawsuit was filed on March 30, 2015 in the Circuit Court of Palm Beach County, Florida on behalf of a 65-year-old lawyer who has been paralyzed since undergoing spinal surgery on her neck in 2013. The case is captioned Lynda J. Harris v. Palms West Hospital, et al., [...]

Florida Pain Management Doctor Allegedly Tied To At Least 17 Deaths

January 17, 2015

A 75-year-old Florida pain management doctor has been reportedly tied to the deaths of at least 17 of his patients who were prescribed controlled substances and whose deaths have been attributed to drug toxicity (15 deaths in the Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner’s database where prescriptions w[...]

Only 4 Of 25 Florida Physicians With The Most Medical Malpractice Payouts Have Lost Their License

September 25, 2014

A review of the 25 physicians in Florida who had the largest number of medical malpractice payouts as a result of judgments and settlements found that only four of them had lost their license to practice medicine in Florida. Of the four who lost their Florida medical license, three lost their lice[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Trial For Death Due To Pulmonary Embolism

September 13, 2014

A Florida medical malpractice trial that started on September 8, 2014 and is expected to last from two to three weeks seeks compensatory damages from the defendant physician, defendant hospital, and defendant home health care service for a 78-year-old man who died on March 2, 2011 due to alleged neg[...]

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