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New Jersey Medical Malpractice Claim Based On Doctor’s Failure To Tell Patient About X-Ray Report

January 4, 2012

A New Jersey man in his mid-60s was scheduled to undergo a cardiac catheterization procedure. His cardiologist required him to have a chest x-ray before the procedure was done (a standard practice). The chest x-ray was taken; the x-ray report received by the cardiologist’s office indicated a[...]

Hospital Medical Malpractice Claims Versus Outpatient Medical Malpractice Claims

January 2, 2012

In a published study last year, researchers found that the number of paid medical malpractice claims involving outpatient medical care in 2009 were more than the number of paid medical malpractice claims for hospital-based incidents in 2009. The study looked at paid medical malpractice claims b[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Claim For Teen’s Death In Dentist’s Office

December 30, 2011

A medical malpractice case recently was filed against a Maryland dentist (a highly-regarded oral surgeon) and an anesthesiologist for the death of a teenage girl who was undergoing routine wisdom teeth extraction in the dentist’s office when her heart rate fell drastically, causing her body t[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Damages Cap Not Retroactive

December 28, 2011

When states enact so-called “medical malpractice reforms” (also known as “tort reforms”) such as caps (limits) on non-economic damages (such as pain and suffering, mental anguish, and disfigurement) that victims of medical malpractice may recover despite a jury’s determ[...]

Tennessee Medical Malpractice Verdict For Deadly Delayed Breast Cancer Diagnosis

December 24, 2011

In August, 2003, a 25-year-old Tennessee woman was examined by her OB/GYN who found a pea-sized lump in her left breast that the OB/GYN advised the woman was probably a cyst or fatty deposit. No further investigation or testing was done at that time. About eighteen months later, during the woman[...]

Drug Shortages Are Getting Even Worse!

December 17, 2011

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on December 15, 2011 in which it stated that the U.S. Congress should consider requiring drug manufacturers to report to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) any changes that could affect their supply of their drugs. The GAO f[...]

New Mexico Medical Malpractice Verdict For Disabled Man

December 3, 2011

Earlier this year, a Las Vegas, New Mexico jury awarded a substantial sum to the estate of a disabled man who suffered painful bed sores that allegedly developed and were not properly treated due to medical malpractice. There was also a claim that the man’s medical records were falsified by [...]

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[...]

Large Recent Wyoming Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Broken Neck

December 1, 2011

At the end of October, 2011, a federal jury in Wyoming awarded a man whose broken neck was not properly diagnosed a record-breaking $9 million (the prior record was reported to be $1.5 million). The jury found that a board-certified emergency room physician and the hospital that employed him breac[...]

New Jersey Medical Malpractice Verdict Due To Hospital Negligence

November 29, 2011

A 42-year-old mother of five went to a local New Jersey hospital in 2004 with a low sodium level (hyponatremia) that was a chronic condition for her. The treatment rendered by the hospital resulted in the rapid increase in her sodium levels over the period of 14 hours, allegedly leading to severe a[...]

Michigan Medical Malpractice Major Mistake Means Millions

November 26, 2011

On December 1, 1995, a newborn was delivered at a Michigan hospital weighing 10 pounds, 12 ounces (yes, you read that correctly). The delivering doctors failed to recognize that the baby was so large that a cesarean section delivery would be necessary. Instead, the doctors used Pitocin, which caus[...]

Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society Of Maryland

November 15, 2011

The Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland (“Medical Mutual”) is the largest insurer of Maryland doctors for medical malpractice claims in Maryland. Medical Mutual is a physician-owned liability insurance company that has been insuring Maryland physicians against Maryland[...]

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