Medical Errors – Part I
December 4, 2024
One study reported that approximately 400,000 hospitalized patients experience some preventable harm each year, while another estimated that >200,000 patient deaths annually were due to preventable medical errors. Moreover, medical errors have a high cost, with some experts estimat[...]
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Urologist Charged With Sexually Abusing Patients
May 23, 2023
Urologist Charged With Sexually Abusing Patients: On April 11, 2023, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the unsealing of a four-count Indictment charging Darius A. Paduch, a New York–area urologist, with inducement of a person to travel to engage in unlawful[...]
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$8M Verdict Against Medical Malpractice Lawyer
August 22, 2018
On July 25, 2018, a jury in Arizona awarded $6,232,000 in compensatory damages and an additional $1,768,000 in punitive damages in favor of the plaintiff surgeon in his lawsuit against a Las Vegas medical malpractice lawyer and his law firm who had previously sued the surgeon for medical malpractice[...]
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Minnesota Inmate Died Due To Medical Negligence
January 12, 2014
A Minnesota inmate approaching the end of his four-month incarceration due to his parole violation died as a result of medical negligence, according to a federal medical malpractice lawsuit filed by his family on January 3, 2014. The inmate had sought medical care at the prison on five occasions [...]
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Weird Florida Medical Malpractice Settlement Situation
January 2, 2014
A Florida appellate court on December 27, 2013 decided a case involving the medical malpractice settlement on behalf of the young malpractice victim (the parents’ medical malpractice complaint alleged that a Florida doctor had failed to timely diagnose and treat their son’s eye condit[...]
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A Nevada Case Of Medical Malpractice Fraud
December 23, 2013
A Las Vegas, Nevada lawyer wanted to handle medical malpractice cases and wished to stack the odds in his favor so that he would receive substantial settlements in the medical malpractice cases he handled — in doing so, he wrongfully put his financial interests above the interests of his c[...]
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White Lab Coats Can’t Turn Bad Doctors Into Competent Doctors
December 21, 2013
One patient who was horribly injured and disfigured as a result of medical negligence that bordered on medical recklessness was asked by her medical malpractice lawyer during their initial meeting how she chose the particular doctor that caused her to suffer such devastating harm. Her response was [...]
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