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Chicago Hospital To Pay $17M Now For Medical Malpractice In 2003

March 20, 2014

On September 6, 2003, a 13-year-old boy was brought to a Chicago hospital’s emergency room due to a fever and generally not feeling well. Significantly, the boy had a prior history of bacterial endocarditis in 1996 (bacterial endocarditis is a serious and sometimes fatal condition where ther[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against ER Doc For Death of 6-Year-old

February 25, 2014

On February 24, 2014, a Texas medical malpractice lawsuit was filed against an emergency room physician and others for the death of a 6-year-old who had been misdiagnosed in the emergency room, was sent home, and died four hours later. The parents’ medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that the [...]

A Case Of Medical Malpractice In Canada

February 18, 2014

On April 8, 2005, a woman had surgery in Canada to address a bladder condition. She woke up in excruciating pain that did not subside when she arrived home after the surgery. The pain was so bad that she was unable to walk on her own; she also had a fever. Over the following months, she went to [[...]

Republican Party’s Alternative To Obamacare Shows Its Disdain For Our Jury System

January 31, 2014

The Republican Party’s recently published counter-proposal in response to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) shows its utter disdain for the American jury system. The Republican Party’s proposal, which it calls The Patient Choice, Affordability, [...]

Wronged By Another Without The Right To Recover

January 13, 2014

When a medical professional’s negligence or carelessness leads to the suffering of another, you would think that the innocent victim would be fairly and adequately compensated for the losses and harms he suffered. Not so, demand medical malpractice tort reformers. The reformers do not wish[...]

Study Finds Medical Malpractice Lawyers Reject Over 90% Of Potential Cases

January 11, 2014

A study based on a national survey of medical malpractice lawyers found that over 75% of medical malpractice lawyers reject over 90% of the medical malpractice cases they screen. As a result, over 95% of medical malpractice victims find it “extremely difficult” to find a medical malpract[...]

Pennsylvania Court Upholds $13M Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict

December 28, 2013

On November 4, 2013, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania upheld a verdict in the amount of $12,951,884.74 (which includes the jury’s verdict, delay damages, and post-judgment interest) in favor of the Estate of a man who had died as a result of the delay in medical treatment at a hospital. A�[...]

Choose Your Medical Malpractice Lawyer The Same Way You Would Choose Your Doctor

December 22, 2013

Medical malpractice lawyers and medical doctors are similar in that they are typically well-educated and trained in taking care of people who need their specialized services. Everyone would like to think that they have chosen (or have been provided) the best professional when their need for medi[...]

Washington Medical Malpractice Victim Awarded $30M For Throat Fire During Surgery

December 14, 2013

A 55-year-old woman from Washington State had polyps on her vocal cords for which she had surgery using a laser. A breathing tube had been inserted into her throat as part of the surgical procedure and oxygen was flowing at the time the laser started a fire in her throat. The laser surgery fire [...]

New York Medical Malpractice Victim Alleges Minor Surgery Almost Cost Her Her Life

December 10, 2013

In a New York medical malpractice case that has been in trial for over a month, the now 33-year-old plaintiff alleges that in the fall of 2009, the surgeon who performed her laparoscopic procedure for an ectopic pregnancy in a Long Island, New York hospital was negligent by perforating her colon dur[...]

Georgia Court Of Appeals Rules Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Expert’s Testimony is Admissible

December 4, 2013

In its decision issued on November 20, 2013, the Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Court of Appeals”), Georgia’s intermediate appellate court, determined that the trial judge improperly excluded the testimony of the plaintiff’s expert in a medical malpractice case. The [...]

India Drug Company Settles Massive False Claims Act Case

December 1, 2013

A large generic drug manufacturer based in India has agreed to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit by paying $350 million to resolve federal and state claims plus $150 million in criminal penalties. The federal lawsuit had alleged that Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (“Ranbaxy”) had viola[...]

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