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$15 Million Colorado Medical Malpractice Verdict For Paralysis

August 6, 2012

Following a three-week trial that ended in late-July, 2012, a Colorado Springs, Colorado medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $15 million against a hospital and an emergency room physician for medical negligence that allegedly resulted in the paralysis of a 36-year-ol[...]

Is This Medical Malpractice? When A Good Deed Results In Death

April 10, 2012

One of the saddest stories we recently heard regarding a possible medical malpractice incident occurred in May, 2010 in the operating room of a major transplant hospital in the United States when a living liver donor died on the operating room table while giving the gift of life to his brother-in-l[...]

Iowa Medical Malpractice Claim For Birth Injuries To Mother And Child

March 21, 2012

An Iowa couple recently filed a medical malpractice claim against the State of Iowa in its capacity as the operator of a hospital in which it is alleged that various health care providers committed medical malpractice that caused injuries to the mother and her baby during the Cesarean section[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Nebraska Medical Malpractice Claim For 2-Year-Old’s Heparin Death

December 2, 2011

A 23-month-old child with congenital defects was brought by her parents from Texas to the well-regarded transplant center, the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, for major surgery during which her liver, pancreas, and small bowel were transplanted during December, 2009. The child was in[...]

Maryland Hospital Mistakes

October 10, 2011

Hospitals in Maryland are required to report serious adverse events that occur in those hospitals to the Maryland Office of Health Care Quality (OHCQ). OHCQ in turn issues a yearly report regarding the reported hospital errors and mistakes that result in serious injuries or death. The most recent re[...]

TOP RATED HOSPITALS OFFER BETTER PATIENT SAFETY

March 11, 2011

HealthGrades, an independent source of physician information and hospital quality outcomes, has recently issued the results of a study that found that patients have a 46% lower risk of experiencing a patient safety incident at a top-rated hospital compared to a poorly-rated hospital. The findings we[...]

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