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Massachusetts Appellate Court Chastises Hospital Lawyers’ Actions Against Pro Se Plaintiff In Medical Malpractice Case

April 28, 2024

In its December 12, 2023 Memorandum and Order, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Appeals Court reversed summary judgment granted to the defendant hospital in a medical malpractice case brought by a pro se plaintiff, and further stated, “A pro se litigant is bound by the same rules of procedure[...]

$625K Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict For Premature Removal Of Foley Catheter

March 16, 2021

In early February 2021, a Florida medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $625,000 against a Florida hospital after a nurse removed a patient’s Foley catheter after only four days following surgery despite the fact that it was supposed to remain in the patient for at lea[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Holds Affidavit Of Merit Not Necessary In Ordinary Negligence Claim Against Hospital

April 5, 2019

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”), in its unpublished decision filed on March 25, 2019, reversed the trial court’s dismissal of the plaintiff’s complaint filed against a hospital “because some of the claims asserted in pl[...]

Minnesota Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Win

August 2, 2018

The Minnesota Court of Appeals (“Minnesota Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished decision filed on May 21, 2018 that “[b]ecause no authority supports [the Minnesota medical malpractice plaintiff’s] contention that a medical malpractice defendant may not argue that the pla[...]

Failure Of Multiple Utah Medical Facilities To Report Nurse’s Sexual Assaults Over 10 Year Period Resulted In 12 Victims

January 15, 2018

A Utah nurse who has allegedly sexually assaulted at least 12 women at four different Utah medical facilities over the period of ten years could have been stopped if they had properly reported his misconduct to the appropriate authorities, according to one victim’s Utah medical malpractice law[...]

$2M Indiana Medical Malpractice Verdict For Morphine Overdose Death While In Hospital

October 21, 2016

Earlier this month, an Indiana medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a widow whose husband died as a result of an overdose of morphine while he was recovering from surgery in an Indiana hospital. The jury took two and a half hours of deliberations to return its verdict regarding [...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Hospital Puts Its Profits Above Patients’ Health

May 13, 2016

In a Florida medical malpractice case filed on April 21, 2016, the father of a 31-year-old woman who died as a result of a heart attack that she suffered while in the emergency room of the defendant hospital alleges that the hospital put its profits above the health of his daughter by failing to[...]

Ohio Supreme Court Clarifies What Is A “Medical Record”

April 7, 2016

In its decision filed on March 23, 2016, the Supreme Court of Ohio (“Ohio Supreme Court”) ruled that the physical location of the data is not relevant to the determination whether that data qualifies as a medical record in Ohio because the Ohio General Assembly did not limit the defini[...]

New Estimate: Over 400,000 May Die Each Year In U.S. Due To Hospital Mistakes

September 21, 2013

In an article appearing in Scientific American entitled, “How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals?,” the frequently quoted figure of up to 98,000 annual deaths in U.S. hospitals due to medical negligence has been updated to at least 210,000 and may be more than 400,000 prema[...]

5 Common Hospital Medical Malpractice Claim Allegations

January 29, 2013

What are five of the most common hospital medical malpractice claim allegations, based on research of jury verdicts and medical malpractice insurance claims data? 1. Medication Errors Hospital medication errors include patients being given the wrong medication, patients being given the wrong d[...]

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[...]

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