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Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Stillbirth

October 14, 2024

On July 24, 2024, the parents of a stillborn baby girl filed a complaint in the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County, Florida, against the OBGYNs involved with the labor, delivery, and birth. The Florida medical malpractice lawsuit reportedly alleges that the plaintif[...]

$24.5M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict For Mother’s Death Shortly After Giving Birth

May 6, 2019

On April 17, 2019, a Florida medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $24.5 million in favor of the family of a 34-year-old mother of three older children who died shortly after giving birth to her fourth child. The Florida medical malpractice jury deliberated for about two hou[...]

$5M Legal Malpractice Verdict Against Florida Medical Malpractice Law Firm For Botched Birth Injury Claim

November 9, 2018

A Florida legal malpractice jury found against a Florida plaintifs’ medical malpractice law firm on October 17, 2018, finding that the defendant medical malpractice law firm negligently failed to represent a woman for her own injuries suffered during childbirth during which the baby was severe[...]

Florida Appellate Court Overturns $2.5M Wrongful Birth Verdict

January 10, 2014

On January 8, 2014, in a split decision, the District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida Fourth District overturned a $2.5 million verdict in a wrongful birth case. A wrongful birth claim is a medical malpractice claim in which the parents give birth to an impaired or deformed child and alle[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Claim For Newborn’s Suffocation Death

December 4, 2012

On August 9, 2009, a 21-year-old mother who had given birth by Cesarean section less than 24 hours earlier was exhausted from both the delivery and from the strong multiple pain medications given to her during the delivery. Nonetheless, the first-time mother wanted to nurse her baby girl and the ho[...]

Florida $1.25 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Hepatitis C Contracted During Colonoscopy

November 26, 2012

A 70-year-old Florida Air Force veteran had a colonoscopy in 2007 at the Miami Veterans Administration Medical Center (“V.A. Medical Center”). He had been tested for hepatitis C in 2006 that was reported as negative. But in 2009, after receiving a letter from the V.A. stating that he [...]

Largest For-Profit U.S. Hospital Chain Responsible For Unnecessary Cardiac Procedures?

August 14, 2012

The largest for-profit hospital chain in the United States, HCA, has 163 medical facilities in the United States. HCA owns hospitals in about 20 states, including Florida, where the population of elderly has led its Florida hospitals to be responsible for about 20% of HCA’s revenues. HCA [...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Claim For Amputated Penis

May 22, 2012

A former Florida man filed a medical malpractice claim in Florida against an anesthesiologist, claiming that the anesthesiologist committed medical malpractice and that the medical negligence resulted in the man having to have his penis surgically amputated. The man claims in his medical malprac[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Complaints

October 14, 2011

The Florida Department of Health’s Division of Medical Quality Assurance (“MQA”) is responsible for licensing and regulating 37 types of facilities/establishments and more than 40 health care professions under Florida law. The most recent available MQA Annual Report is for fisc[...]

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