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New York Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Hospital On Vicarious Liability Claim In Medical Malpractice Case

June 17, 2018

The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”) in its May 16, 2018 Decision & Order reversed summary judment granted to the defendant hospital in a New York medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff conten[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Claims Hospital Nurse High On Meth Caused Baby’s Brain Damage

March 19, 2018

The parents of a baby who suffered brain damage while in the hospital have filed a Florida medical malpractice lawsuit in which they allege that a hospital nurse was high on methamphetamine when he negligent dislodged the baby’s breathing tube while giving him a bath, which resulted in the bab[...]

Minnesota Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Stillborn’s Body Sent Out With Dirty Laundry

October 22, 2017

A Minnesota medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed by the family of a stillborn baby against the hospital where the delivery of the 22-week-old baby occurred, for the alleged negligence of the hospital in failing to send the body for cremation, as was promised to the family, but rather sent the [...]

$13.75M South Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Triple Amputations

March 26, 2017

A 54-year-old South Carolina woman obtained a $13.75 million verdict on February 28, 2017 that was rendered by a South Carolina medical malpractice jury that included $10 million in economic damages and $3.75 million for her noneconomic losses as a result of having both of her legs amputated above t[...]

Indiana Supreme Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants

May 8, 2016

In its decision filed on April 28, 2016, the Indiana Supreme Court reversed the trial court’s granting summary judgment to the defendants in an Indiana medical malpractice case, finding that the Indiana medical malpractice defendants themselves “created a genuine issue of material fact[...]

Tennessee Medical Malpractice Case Alleges Hospital Overdosed Patient Leading To His Death

April 19, 2016

On April 15, 2016, the widow of a Tennessee police detective filed her Tennessee medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital where her husband had a lethal level of narcotic pain medication (oxycodone) in his system at the time of his death. The widow was originally told that he[...]

$4.5M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death Due To Delay

April 25, 2014

Two physicians who work at Massachusetts General Hospital (“MGH”) agreed earlier this month to pay $4.5 million to the family of a 62-year-old woman who died due to the alleged delay in providing her with timely medical care while she was in the hospital. The woman had been transfer[...]

Two Massachusetts Maternal Deaths At One Hospital In Thirty Days

January 22, 2014

Within a 30-day period, two mothers who had given birth in the same hospital in Weymouth, Massachusetts died shortly after delivery. The two deaths within a one month period are unusual because maternal deaths are rare — there were only three maternal deaths in Massachusetts in 2012, three[...]

Medical Malpractice Claim In UK For Cervical Cancer Misdiagnosed 30 Times

October 13, 2012

A 33-year-old mother of four minor children died from cervical cancer in July, 2012 after her doctors and other medical providers in England failed on 30 occasions to diagnose her cervical cancer. The woman’s ordeal began in 2010 when pre-cancerous cells were removed from her cervix. In Ja[...]

Hospital Error Rates For Chronically Ill Children

September 23, 2012

In a study of data regarding children who were hospitalized during 2006 in 38 states in the United States, researchers found that 44.1 % of hospitalized children had a least one chronic condition such as cancer, asthma, or digestive disorders (the researchers found that 22.3% of children who were[...]

Hospital Medical Malpractice Statistics Exposed

September 20, 2012

In a new book written by a world-renowned Johns Hopkins surgeon named Marty Makary, M.D., the author notes that one in six dollars in the U.S. economy are spent in the health care industry, 20% to 30% of all medical tests and procedures are unnecessary, 30% to 40% of total health care expenditure[...]

Tennessee $7.8 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Necrotizing Fasciitis

September 3, 2012

On August 3, 2012, after a 15-day medical malpractice jury trial in Tennessee, a medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $7,816,740 in favor of a now-20-year-old man whose cut on his knee due to a fall onto an exposed nail in 2004 when he was 12-years-old was improperly trea[...]

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