A Colorado hospital sued its patient for $229,112.13, claiming that the $74,597.35 it received from the patient’s health plan and the deductible it received from the patient were not enough for the patient’s back surgery and the three-night hospital stay… Read More
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Ohio Nursing Home Negligence Case Alleges Death Due To Pressure Ulcers
The estate of a man and the man’s surviving wife have filed a nursing home negligence case in state court in Ohio seeking in excess of $25,000 against the nursing home where the man had been a resident in order to receive… Read More
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Michigan Medical Malpractice Settlement Payment Fully Applied To Reduce Jury Verdict
The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Appeals Court”) recently held in a Michigan medical malpractice case that the amount of a settlement paid by one medical malpractice defendant to all of the plaintiffs prior to trial to settle all… Read More
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Hershey Medical Center Pays $400,000 To Settle Medical Malpractice Claim
The family of a 76-year-old man who had been litigating a medical malpractice case against the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania for five years has settled the medical malpractice claims by agreeing to accept $400,000… Read More
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Surgical Malpractice Makes Hospitals More Money
In a research study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association on April 17, 2013, the researchers found that hospitals make more money when patients suffer surgical complications compared to when patients do not experience surgical complications if the… Read More
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Medical Malpractice Settlements May Cost Cook County $24 Million
Cook County, Illinois is facing the possibility that it will pay $24 million in medical malpractice settlements related to its public health system. Upwards of $20 million may be paid to settle one medical malpractice claim involving a now 3-year-old who suffered permanent irreversible… Read More
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5 Common Hospital Medical Malpractice Claim Allegations
What are five of the most common hospital medical malpractice claim allegations, based on research of jury verdicts and medical malpractice insurance claims data? 1. Medication Errors Hospital medication errors include patients being given the wrong medication, patients being given the wrong dosage of… Read More
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Nurse’s Negligence Leads To Hospital Patient’s Paraplegia And Death
On the night of May 11, 2000, an insulin-dependent diabetic patient was admitted into a Louisiana hospital due to abdominal pain, back pain, and vomiting leading to his dehydration. His admitting physician diagnosed him with diabetic ketoacidosis (a condition that occurs in diabetics when… Read More
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North Carolina Medical Malpractice Claim For Rape In E.R.
A North Carolina woman has filed a medical malpractice claim against a North Carolina hospital and others for allegedly failing to protect her from being raped by a male patient she did not know who was placed in the same room with… Read More
