A-Rod’s Possible Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
August 30, 2013
It was reported last week that lawyers for New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez (“A-Rod”) are preparing a medical malpractice lawsuit on his behalf against the Yankees’ team doctor, Christopher Ahmad, arising out of an incident that occurred in October 2012, when the Yankees were[...]
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Hospital Pharmacist Malpractice
August 29, 2013
Hospital pharmacists are not immune to medical malpractice claims. Such claims may involve the wrong medication being dispensed (especially if the drugs have similar sounding names), the wrong dosage of the drug (such as filling a prescription for 10 ml of a drug when the prescribed dosage was 0.[...]
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Sperm Bank Meltdown Leads To 40 Lawsuits
August 24, 2013
On August 20, 2013, forty (40) lawsuits were filed in the Cook County Circuit Court (Illinois) against Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation on behalf of men whose frozen sperm specimens that were stored by the defendants so that they could possibly become bi[...]
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$2 Million Vaginal Mesh Verdict
August 21, 2013
A federal jury in Charleston, West Virginia returned a $2 million verdict on August 15, 2013 in favor of the female plaintiff and against C.R. Bard Inc. (“Bard”), which had manufactured and sold the transvaginal mesh product called Avaulta Plus that had been implanted in the 55-year-old[...]
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Physician Assistant Malpractice
August 18, 2013
Statistics for the rate of Physician Assistant (“PA”) malpractice claims between 1991 and 2007 indicate that medical malpractice payments made on behalf of PAs were one-half of the rate of medical malpractice payments made on behalf of physicians. The probability of a PA making a medi[...]
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