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Florida Legislature Passes Bill To Pay Medical Malpractice Verdict

March 30, 2012

Back in 2007, a Florida medical malpractice jury awarded almost $31 million to a child and his parents for the child’s birth injuries that included cerebral palsy and other serious injuries that the jury determined were the result of medical malpractice committed by employees of Lee Memorial [...]

Kentucky Medical Malpractice Jury Awards Man’s Estate $1.45 Million, After 13 Years

March 7, 2012

Back in 1999, a paraplegic man went to a local Kentucky hospital’s emergency room, complaining of abdominal pain along with vomiting and constipation that were treated with an enema and pain medication before the man was discharged from the emergency room. That night, the man was vomiting b[...]

We’re Celebrating One Full Year Of Daily Blog Postings!

March 4, 2012

Well, we have reached a significant milestone — one complete year of our daily blog postings (we started daily posting in our Blog on March 5, 2011 and have posted every day since). When we first started to blog, we thought that it might be difficult to find relevant, interesting informat[...]

New Jersey Medical Malpractice Verdict For Man Who Died From Pulmonary Embolism

February 29, 2012

A man went to a local New Jersey hospital’s emergency room to be examined and treated for chest pains and shortness of breath that he feared might be serious. He was seen in the emergency room by a doctor who diagnosed the man as having a virus. The emergency room doctor discharged the man to[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Claim For Good Deed Turned Deadly

February 25, 2012

An unmarried couple who had been together for 21 years and had an eighteen-year-old son together had to deal with a life-altering situation when the man’s kidneys were failing due to his diabetes and kidney dialysis wasn’t working well for him. Out of a sense of compassion and caring,[...]

New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Gallbladder Surgery Resulting In Death

February 6, 2012

In 2008, a 60-year-old Korean immigrant who was the primary caregiver for his mentally ill adult daughter was admitted into a New York hospital for surgery to remove his inflamed gallbladder due to gallstones. The surgery was canceled the first day because the man’s surgery was not put on the[...]

California Hospital Malpractice Results In Suffocation Death — And $100,000 Fine

February 2, 2012

According to California health regulators, the long-term nursing unit of a California hospital was responsible for the negligent medical treatment and death of an 81-year-old woman in June, 2011, who had a breathing tube in her throat. The investigative report determined that the nurse who was c[...]

Most Hospital Medical Malpractice Events Are Unreported

January 14, 2012

A new report regarding a study of Medicare patients who were injured in hospitals found that only one in seven hospital errors were reported. And when the medical errors and hospital accidents were reported and subsequently investigated, hospitals rarely changed their practi[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Claim For Death Due To Wrong Medication

January 10, 2012

A 79-year-old dialysis patient in Florida experienced shortness of breath after a dialysis session. He was admitted into the intensive care unit of a local hospital for treatment. The next day, he was administered the wrong medication that resulted in his death, according to the allegations in the�[...]

Hospital Medical Malpractice Claims Versus Outpatient Medical Malpractice Claims

January 2, 2012

In a published study last year, researchers found that the number of paid medical malpractice claims involving outpatient medical care in 2009 were more than the number of paid medical malpractice claims for hospital-based incidents in 2009. The study looked at paid medical malpractice claims b[...]

New Jersey Medical Malpractice Verdict Due To Hospital Negligence

November 29, 2011

A 42-year-old mother of five went to a local New Jersey hospital in 2004 with a low sodium level (hyponatremia) that was a chronic condition for her. The treatment rendered by the hospital resulted in the rapid increase in her sodium levels over the period of 14 hours, allegedly leading to severe a[...]

Florida Example Of Hospital Malpractice

November 28, 2011

A concerned 17-year-old Florida mother brought her 3-month-old infant son to a local hospital emergency room in Florida because he had been vomiting and had diarrhea for three days. She and her son were in the emergency department for four and a half hours before she was told that it was safe[...]

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