North Carolina $4 Million Verdict For Nursing Malpractice
May 26, 2013
During late April 2013, a Hertford County, North Carolina medical malpractice jury awarded $4 million to the estate of a deceased patient of a psychiatric acute care inpatient facility who died on April 24, 2009 after going into a diabetic coma on April 13, 2009 following an insulin overdose at[...]
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Frivolous Fears Of Frivolous Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
May 21, 2013
The rallying call of doctors, hospitals, and their medical malpractice insurance companies and well-paid political lobbyists who fearmonger state and federal legislators with cries that “frivolous” medical malpractice claims are the cause of increasing medical malpractice insurance[...]
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Tennessee Court Of Appeals Upholds Pre-Suit Notice Requirement
May 12, 2013
On April 17, 2013, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee turned down a constitutional challenge and upheld Tennessee Code Annotated Section 29-26-121, which requires a medical malpractice claimant to provide notice sixty days prior to filing suit, holding that section 29-26-121 is not an unconstitutio[...]
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Nevada $500 Million Punitive Damages Verdict For Hepatitis C
April 30, 2013
On April 9, 2013, a Nevada jury returned a punitive damages award in the amount of $500 million against two affiliates of UnitedHealth Group ($270 million against Health Plan of Nevada and $230 million against Sierra Health Services), arising out of a hepatitis C outbreak in Nevada caused by the [...]
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Nevada Compounding Pharmacy Recalls Its Products
April 19, 2013
A large Southern Nevada compounding and specialty pharmacy that ships its products throughout the United States voluntarily recalled its products due to concerns over product sterility. In a press release issued by Green Valley Drugs on April 5, 2013, Green Valley Drugs announced that it was volu[...]
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The Invisible Victims Of Medical Malpractice
April 17, 2013
We recently received a telephone call from a woman whose husband died from medical malpractice in Maryland. She told us about her husband’s medical condition that was not diagnosed in time despite what appeared to be clear symptoms of a serious and deadly condition that led to his painful an[...]
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$2.1 Million New York Radiology Malpractice Verdict
April 6, 2013
After almost three weeks of trial and on the second day of jury deliberations, a New York medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of nearly $2.1 million against a radiologist and in favor of a 56-year-old man whose lesion found on a CT scan of his spine in February 2008 was not p[...]
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