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$600K Iowa Medical Malpractice Settlement In Loss Of Chance For Better Outcome Cancer Case

August 3, 2022

$600K Iowa Malpractice Settlement: It has been reported that University of Iowa Physicians has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the wife of a 67-year-old man who died on August 29, 2015 from complications arising from a metastatic neuroendocrine tumor. The Iowa medical malpracti[...]

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[...]

Iowa Supreme Court Rules Surgeon Must Face Retrial In Medical Malpractice Case Claiming Unnecessary Surgery Led To Stroke

February 14, 2022

The Supreme Court of Iowa (“Iowa Supreme Court”) ruled in its opinion dated January 21, 2022 that a patient who suffered a stroke following allegedly unnecessary surgery was entitled to a new trial due to the trial court’s errors that led to a defense verdict. The Underlying Facts�[...]

Iowa Appellate Court Orders New Trial For Doctor Who Performed Vasectomy Instead Of Circumcision

January 12, 2022

In its opinion filed on November 23, 2021, the Court of Appeals of Iowa (“Iowa Appellate Court) held in an Iowa medical malpractice case where the non-English-speaking plaintiff alleged that the defendants performed a vasectomy on him instead of the intended circumcision, that several errors h[...]

Iowa Appellate Court Agrees Some Claims Against Hospital May Be For Ordinary Negligence

December 6, 2021

The Court of Appeals of Iowa (“Iowa Appellate Court”) stated in ts opinion filed on November 3, 2021 in a lawsuit against a hospital for injuries suffered from a patient’s fall, “Jacqueline Struck appeals the district court’s order granting the defendants’ motions to dism[...]

Iowa Supreme Court Rules Disciplinary Information Regarding Doctor Should Not Have Been Publically Disclosed

November 20, 2021

The Supreme Court of Iowa (“Iowa Supreme Court”) held in its October 22, 2021 opinion: “the [Iowa Medical] Board concluded that Iowa Code section 272C.6(4)(a) allows it to publish statements of charges and press releases containing investigative information … Public disclosur[...]

Iowa Emergency Room Physician Still Treating Patients Despite High Probability Of Risk To The Public

September 10, 2021

The Iowa Capital Dispatch reported on July 2, 2021: “An unidentified emergency room physician who allegedly caused the death of a patient in 2017 has continued to see patients with no restrictions on his license while posing a “high risk” to the public, according to the Iowa Board of Medic[...]

$6M Iowa Nursing Home Neglect Verdict

July 10, 2021

On June 17, 2021, an Iowa nursng home neglect jury retuned its verdict against a North Iowa nursing home for the death of an 83-year-old resident in June 2017. The jury awarded the resident’s estate $2 million for pre-death pain and suffering, $1 million for pre-death loss of full mind and bod[...]

Iowa Surgeon Finally Surrendered His License Following Years Of Incompetence Claims

April 6, 2021

The Iowa Capital Dispatch reported that a 40-year-old surgeon has voluntarily surrendered his Iowa medical license seventeen months after his medical license was summarily suspended and two years after his clinical privileges were suspended at various medical facilities. During his career as a surge[...]

Iowa Appellate Court Affirms Plaintiff’s Physicians Not Allowed To Testify In Medical Malpractice Case

March 25, 2021

The Court of Appeals of Iowa (“Iowa Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on March 3, 2021, held: “Because the rules of civil procedure require the disclosure of expert opinions, we conclude the district court did not abuse its discretion by ruling a physician could only testify [...]

Private Autopsy Company Sued For Fraud, Owner Indicted

January 21, 2021

National Autopsy Service, which is based in Topeka, Kansas and is owned by Shawn Parcells (“Parcells”), was sued in mid-December 2020 by the family of a 68-year-old man (“decedent’) who died in a hospital and whose death the family believes was caused by medical malpractice. [...]

$15M Iowa Medical Malpractice Claim Alleges ENT Punctured Man’s Brain Stem During Unnecessary Surgery

December 31, 2020

A 43-year-old man and his wife have reportedly filed a $15 million Iowa medical malpractice claim with the Iowa State Appeal Board, alleging that his brain stem was punctured by an ENT performing unnecessary surgery, thereby requiring extensive rehabilitation and resulting in permanent cognitive cha[...]

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