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Kentucky Appellate Court Orders New Medical Malpractice Trial Where Judge Failed To Strike Juror For Cause

May 20, 2018

The Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals (“Kentucky Appellate Court”) held in its decision rendered on May 4, 2018 that the Kentucky medical malpractice plaintiff was entitled to a new trial, stating: “We find that the trial court abused its discretion by not striking Juror 42[...]

Kentucky Appellate Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Where Critical Medical Record Not Produced Until Shortly Before Trial

January 17, 2018

The Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals (“Kentucky Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on January 5, 2018 that the trial judge had abused his discretion in dealing with the defense’s late production of relevant medical records and in denying the plaintiff’s moti[...]

Kentucky Medical Malpractice Claim Against Plastic Surgeon For 5 Left-Behind Sponges

July 29, 2014

A medical malpractice case was filed on June 23, 2014 against a Kentucky plastic surgeon and other health care providers by a woman who claimed that her plastic surgeon unintentionally left five sponges in her thigh following surgery on July 8, 2013. The woman had injured her left thigh and went t[...]

Kentucky Hospital Settles Unnecessary Stent Claims

February 16, 2014

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky announced on January 28, 2014 that a Kentucky hospital has agreed to pay the United States $16.5 million to resolve civil claims that it submitted fraudulent claims to Medicare and to Kentucky Medicaid programs for medically unn[...]

Kentucky Hospital Agrees To Pay $2,833,408.60 To Settle False Claims Allegations

August 22, 2013

On July 1, 2013, the United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky and the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that University Medical Center (University of Louisville Hospital) has voluntarily entered into a settlement agreement w[...]

Kentucky Children’s Hospital Continues To Refuse To Provide Data On Pediatric Heart Surgery Deaths

August 6, 2013

What’s going on with the Kentucky Children’s Hospital? It continues to refuse to provide data regarding pediatric heart surgery deaths despite the March 27, 2013 Open Records Decision of the Kentucky Attorney General that found that the University of Kentucky violated the Open Records [...]

Kentucky Former Cardiologist To Be Sentenced In Stent Fraud Scheme

June 17, 2013

On June 4, 2013, a former cardiologist in Kentucky pleaded guilty to health care fraud for submitting a claim for an unnecessary cardiac stent procedure that was billed to Medicaid. The 51-year-old cardiologist admitted that he lied about the severity of his patient’s medical condition in ord[...]

Kentucky Supreme Court Reverses Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict

May 30, 2013

In an opinion filed on May 23, 2013, the Supreme Court of Kentucky (“Kentucky Supreme Court”) overturned a defense verdict in a medical malpractice case because the trial judge twice failed to remove jurors for cause when it was revealed that the first juror indicated an inability to [...]

Kentucky $7.25 Million Jury Verdict For Failed Cochlear Implant

April 20, 2013

On April 16, 2013, a federal jury in Kentucky returned a $7.25 million verdict in favor of a little girl whose cochlear implant (a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing) failed due to moisture leakage t[...]

California Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Turns Criminal

March 19, 2012

A 77-year-old Alzheimer’s patient, who had been married to her 81-year-old husband for 60 years, was admitted into a California nursing home for care so that she could recover from pneumonia. At the time of her admission to the nursing home, it was known that the woman was prone to chronic[...]

Kentucky Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgeon’s Broken Legs

February 19, 2012

A retired surgeon who was in his mid-80s was being cared for by a nursing assistant who was supposed to use a lifting device to transfer the man from a chair to his bed but failed to do so. As a result of the nursing assistant’s failure to use the proper procedure for the man’s transfer[...]

U.S. Government Alleges Kentucky Nursing Home Committed Fraud

January 17, 2012

In a complaint filed by the U.S. government against a Kentucky nursing home chain and its owners, it is alleged that the Kentucky nursing home fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid $16 million for worthless services and care that was so grossly deficient and abusive that it caused “egregio[...]

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