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Iowa Agrees To Pay $1.4M For Woman Who Died After Falling From Bed In Hospital

May 31, 2025

Bounthath Phetsomphou was 75-years-old when she had surgery on January 15, 2019 to remove a cancerous lesion in her cheek at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Immediately after the successful surgery, she was placed in the Intensive Care Unit (“ICU”). Shortly afterwards, she [...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Hospital For 2-Year-Old’s Death Due To Delayed Treatment Of Allergic Reaction To Fire Ant Bites

May 27, 2025

On April 4, 2025, a Georgia medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit was filed by the estate of a two-year-old, and her grieving parents, alleging that medical malpractice that occurred in an emergency department of a local hospital led to the unnecessary death of the young child. The lawsuit alle[...]

Private Equity Hospitals Associated With 25.4% Increase In Hospital-Acquired Adverse Events

March 11, 2024

A study published on JAMA Network on December 26, 2023 reported: “In a difference-in-differences examination of 662 095 hospitalizations at 51 private equity–acquired hospitals and 4 160 720 hospitalizations at 259 matched control hospitals using 100% Medicare Part A claims data, priva[...]

HCA Accused Of Putting Profits Before Patients

March 9, 2023

HCA Accused Of Putting Profits Before Patients: A staffing paper from Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the nation’s largest union of healthcare workers, entitled “Care Crisis How Low Staffing Contributes to Patient Care Failures at HCA Hospitals” states: HCA Healthcare is [...]

1 In 4 Patients Admitted To U.S. Hospitals Are Harmed

January 22, 2023

1 In 4 Patients Admitted To U.S. Hospitals Are Harmed: The results of a study entitled “The Safety of Inpatient Health Care” published on January 12, 2023 in The New England Journal of Medicine concluded: “Adverse events were identified in nearly one in four admissions, and approxi[...]

New Hampshire Hospital Allegedly Shielded Money-Making Heart Surgeon Despite Horrible Medical Malpractice Record, Including Many Deaths

December 25, 2022

Hospital Allegedly Shielded Money-Making Heart Surgeon Despite Horrible Medical Malpractice Record: The Boston Globe reported in a two-part investigative series about a New Hampshire hospital that allegedly shielded a cardiac surgeon despite the surgeon having one of the worst, if not the worst, med[...]

23-Year-Old Died At Yale-New Haven Hospital After Being Left Alone In The Emergency Room For Over 7 hours

November 16, 2022

23-Year-Old Dead After Being Left Alone In The Emergency Room: A recently filed Connecticut medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of a 23-year-old man who was left alone and not checked on by medical staff during his seven hour stay in the emergency department of Yale-New Ha[...]

Florida Appellate Court Vacates Directed Verdict For Hospital In Contaminated Heparin Medical Malpractice Case

April 13, 2022

The District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida (“Florida Appellate Court”) held in its opinion dated January 21, 2022 “we reverse the trial court’s grant of a directed verdict in favor of Holmes Regional and remand for a new trial” in a Florida medical malpractice cas[...]

Nebraska Medical Malpractice Jury Awards $26.1M Against Children’s Hospital For Failing To Treat Infant’s Seizures

March 5, 2022

On November 24, 2021, a Nebraska medical malpractice jury awarded $26.1 million against Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in a medical malpractice case that alleged that it failed to properly treat a child who suffered seizures in January 2017 after she fell while standing on a toy at a day[...]

Fertility Patients Sue Yale University After Nurse Stole Fentanyl And Replaced It With Saline

November 21, 2021

On November 17, 2021, seven women filed a lawsuit against Yale University for its alleged failure to safeguard the fentanyl supply at its Yale University Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility clinic in Orange, Connecticut last year which caused them to suffer unecessary, excruciating pain. The [...]

Denver Hospital Faces Lawsuit After Internal Bleeding Death Of 24-Year-Old Patient Shortly After Discharge

October 27, 2021

The family of a 24-year-old snowboarder has provided notice that they intend to file a Colorado medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against Denver Health Medical Center for the death of their family member from internal bleeding shortly after he was discharged from the hospital following a 12[...]

$6.2M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Hospital For Loss Of Leg

October 24, 2019

On October 17, 2019, a Prince George’s County, Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a man who lost his right leg allegedly as a result of the defendant hospital’s orthopedic surgeon’s negligence following the man being involved in a rollover single-car[...]

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