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Connecticut Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Improperly Inserted Catheter Ultimately Led To Patient’s Death

May 21, 2025

A Connecticut medical malpractice lawsuit filed in early April 2025 against Bridgeport Hospital, Yale New Haven Health Services Corp., Yale University, and Northeast Medical Group Inc. alleges that a suprapubic catheter was improperly inserted in a patient, causing perforation of the patient’[...]

How Can I Avoid Being Injured While In The Hospital?

February 18, 2025

Johns Hopkins Medicine provides the following suggestions for staying safe while in the hospital: Prepare an information kit. You should prepare a kit – even if you don’t plan to go to the hospital anytime soon. The kit can be similar to the suitcase that pregnant women are encouraged to hav[...]

U.S. Emergency Departments Are Failing Pediatric Patients

November 9, 2024

A research article published on November 1, 2024 on JAMA Network entitled “State and National Estimates of the Cost of Emergency Department Pediatric Readiness and Lives Saved” found: “Our results suggest that more than one quarter of deaths among children receiving emergency care [...]

Illinois Appellate Court Allows Claim Against Hospital For Contracted Physician’s Negligence

March 21, 2024

The Appellate Court of Illinois First District Sixth Division (“Illinois Appellate Court”) stated in its January 5, 2024 Opinion: “In the competition for healthcare market share, hospitals today promote themselves to the public as centers for comprehensive medical care with teams o[...]

Texas Anesthesiologist Charged With Alleged Tampering With IV Bags Implicated In Death, Surgical Emergencies

September 22, 2022

Anesthesiologist Implicated In Death after Tampering With IV Bags: The Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Northern District of Texas announced on September 15, 2022 that Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr., 59, a Dallas anesthesiologist, allegedly injected nerve blocking agents and other drugs int[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

Iowa Pays $7.5M To Settle Medical Malpractice Claim Against University Of Iowa Hospitals And Clinics

July 17, 2022

Iowa Pays $7.5M To Settle Medical Malpractice Claim: On July 11, 2022, Iowa agreed to pay a 41-year-old man $7.5 million to settle his medical malpractice claims against University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (“UIHC”) after he suffered ongoing major neurological deficits, including spe[...]

Illinois Appellate Court Finds No Apparent Authority In Finding For Hospital In Catheter Medical Malpractice Case

May 28, 2022

Background Facts On March 19, 2012, plaintiff presented to an immediate-care facility complaining of abdominal pain. Following orders given to him at the immediate-care center, plaintiff went to defendant’s outpatient department for diagnostic imaging. Plaintiff was diagnosed with acute appendicit[...]

$30M Alabama Medical Malpractice Verdict For Gunshot Victim

May 30, 2019

Following an Alabama medical malpractice wrongful death trial that began on May 6, 2019, the jury awarded $30 million to the family of a 24-year-old gunshot victim who was transported by ambulance to the defendant hospital where he languished for two hours before dying because the defendant on-call [...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Finds Extraordinary Circumstances To Excuse Late Filing Of Required Notice In Medical Malpractice Case

May 3, 2019

In its unpublished opinion filed on April 25, 2019, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) held that a recent immigrant to the United States who suffered a life-threatening pelvic abscess and serious recurrent infections after delivering her ba[...]

$130.5M Michigan Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Hospital For Brain Injury To Two-Month-Old Baby

October 13, 2018

On September 25, 2018, after a three-week trial, a Michigan medical malpractice jury awarded $130,571,897 to a child who suffered a severe and permanent brain injury due to the lack of oxygen during a medical procedure that resulted in the child suffering cerebral palsy. The Michigan medical malprac[...]

Idaho Supreme Court Affirms $3.7M Medical Malpractice Verdict

September 23, 2018

In its opinion filed on September 6, 2018, the Supreme Court of the State of Idaho (“Idaho Supreme Court”) affirmed an Idaho medical malpractice verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $3,775,864.21 (the Idaho medical malpractice jury determined that the plaintiff and her husb[...]

$9M Federal Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Pregnant Woman In The Hospital

May 23, 2016

Earlier this month, a federal medical malpractice jury in Illinois returned its advisory verdict in favor of the plaintiff after which the federal judge affirmed a $9 million award in a federal medical malpractice case that claimed that a federally-funded hospital, a physician, and a nurse were medi[...]

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