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Virginia Supreme Court Rules Merely Responding To Emails From Virginia Resident Does Not Permit Medical Malpractice Claim To Be Brought Against Out-Of-State Defendants In Virginia

July 20, 2024

Virginia’s Long-Arm Statute Virginia’s long-arm statute provides that a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a person who transacts business in the Commonwealth or “caus[es] injury in this Commonwealth by an act or omission outside this Commonwealth if he regularly does or solicit[...]

Prison Medical Malpractice Birth Injury Case Settled For $8 Million

December 19, 2012

A woman who was jailed in 1998 in Wayne County, Michigan went into labor while she was incarcerated. The jail had her transported to a local hospital but she was sent back to jail two hours later. Back in jail, her labor pains intensified, causing other inmates to yell for the guards to assist the [[...]

New York Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Father’s Death

August 19, 2012

The son of a man who died as a result of alleged medical negligence that occurred in a local New York hospital filed a medical malpractice case in court on August 14, 2012 against the hospital, three of its doctors, and the town in which the hospital is located. The medical malpractice case was file[...]

Virginia Medical Malpractice Claim For Alleged IV Infection

April 9, 2012

A woman in Virginia filed a medical malpractice case in late March, 2012 against a local hospital in which she claims she acquired a serious blood infection due to the use of an intravenus catheter (IV) that became contaminated while she was in the hospital in 2010 for treatment of a partial [...]

Michigan Medical Malpractice Verdict For Brain Damage During Surgery

April 8, 2012

On March 30, 2012, a Michigan medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $1.23 million in favor of the family of a 66 year old woman who suffered severe brain injury due to lack of oxygen to her brain during surgery in 2008. The medical malpractice lawsuit was filed against an ane[...]

Georgia Medical Malpractice Claim For Death Of Undocumented Immigrant

April 4, 2012

The surviving wife of an “undocumented” Mexican immigrant has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. government for the death of her husband while he was in the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The federal lawsuit claims that the U.S. governmen[...]

Melanoma Rates For Young People Are Rising Rapidly

April 3, 2012

Cutaneous melanoma is the most serious and deadly form of skin cancer. Melanoma ranks as the fifth most common cancer in men and the seventh most common cancer in women. However, among young adults (18 to 39), melanoma is the second most common invasive cancer (breast cancer is number one). While[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuit For Infant’s Finger Severed In A Hospital

April 2, 2012

In October, 2011, a 15-year-old mother brought her then 3-month-old daughter to a local Florida hospital when her daughter spiked a fever and had bronchitis. The little girl was hospitalized for three days for treatment of her medical condition. An IV that had been placed in her hand for medical [...]

U.S. House Of Representatives Passes Cap On Noneconomic Damages

March 27, 2012

On March 22, 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 5 that is entitled “Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2012” by a vote of 223 to 181, with 7 Democrats voting yes, 10 Republicans voting no, and 4 Republicans voting present. The AMA[...]

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[...]

Poor People Sue For Medical Malpractice Less Than Others

March 2, 2012

It is a not-so-uncommon belief among doctors and other medical providers that the risk of being sued for medical malpractice by a poor patient is much greater than the risk of being sued for medical malpractice by other patients. This perception may help explain why, at least in part, some doctor[...]

Louisiana Medical Malpractice Claim For Sedated Patient Who Fell From Procedure Table

February 15, 2012

Certain medical procedures require the patient to receive some form of sedation (ranging from a light sedation commonly called I.V. sedation that results in the patient being relaxed and feeling sleepy and causes the patient to forget the procedure and the time immediately afterwards but enables th[...]

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