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Federal District Court Rules MAO Has No Lien For Medical Expenses In Claim Against U.S. For Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death, Loss Of Consortium

May 18, 2024

Paula Meador (“Ms. Meador”) received treatment from Dr. Kim Houde (“Dr. Houde”), an employee of the United States, for her bipolar disorder. Dr. Houde prescribed lithium carbonate to treat Ms. Meador. After falling unconscious, Ms. Meador was diagnosed with acute lithium toxicity due to the [...]

Illinois Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Cardiologist

May 1, 2024

The plaintiff, Cheryl Wilson, special administrator of the estate of Leslie Wilson, deceased, brought a wrongful death action against the defendants, Amit Dande, M.D., and Prairie Cardiovascular Consultants, LLP, alleging that the defendants’ negligent evaluation and treatment of the decedent was [...]

Risks Of Surgical Smoke

April 16, 2024

According to a medical article published in 2019 in the Journal of Cancer: Surgical smoke is the gaseous by-product produced when tissue is dissected or cauterized by heat generating devices such as lasers, electrosurgical units, ultrasonic devices, and high speed burrs, drills and saws. Among these[...]

Study: Video Recording Of Patient Visits Does Not Increase Medical Malpractice Claims

April 15, 2024

A research study published on February 5, 2024 concluded: “Video recording of patient-physician encounters was not associated with an increase in malpractice lawsuits. According to federal law, a patient can legally record a clinic encounter without physician consent, which has many ethical im[...]

Federal Appellate Court Rules PREP Act Did Not Provide Immunity In Medical Malpractice Case

April 7, 2024

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) stated in its unpublished opinion filed on January 22, 2024: “When Dr. Joel Warren performed an endoscopy and biopsy on Lisa Goins, he was looking for an insulinoma—a tumor in her pancreas. He an[...]

$9.5M Medical Malpractice Settlement Involving Tripler Army Medical Center For Botched Gastric Bypass Surgery

April 2, 2024

In January 2024, the United States government announced that it has agreed to settle a medical malpractice claim involving an alleged botched gastric bypass surgery that a 31-year-old patient underwent in November 2020 at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. The surgeons who performed th[...]

Washington Medical Malpractice Complaint Alleges Surgeons Removed Wrong Organ

March 25, 2024

On November 2, 2023, a Washington medical malpractice lawsuit was filed against a hospital and two surgeons who allegedly mistakenly removed a portion of a patient’s bowel instead of his diseased appendix during surgery on December 6, 2022. The medical malpractice lawsuit was filed against the[...]

Largest Medical Malpractice Verdicts In The United States In 2023

February 25, 2024

Due to the complex nature of legal proceedings and ongoing appeals, definitive information about the largest medical malpractice verdicts in 2023 might not be readily available or finalized. However, based on current reports, there were several high-profile cases with significant awards: Largest Rep[...]

ProPublica: Doctors With Histories Of Big Malpractice Settlements Work For Insurers, Deciding If They’ll Pay For Care

February 24, 2024

ProPublica stated in its December 15, 2023 report entitled Doctors With Histories of Big Malpractice Settlements Work for Insurers, Deciding If They’ll Pay for Care that it and The Capitol Forum investigated how health plans refuse to pay for care by examining who insurers picked to make those det[...]

$120M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosed Stroke Leading To Profound Disability

February 10, 2024

When the wife of a 41-year-old commercial real estate broker heard a thud in their bathroom at 3 a.m. in November 2018, she could not imagine that her husband and the father of their two young children would suffer a misdiagnosed stroke that would lead to him residing in a nursing home the rest of [[...]

U.S. Medical Malpractice Statistics By State

February 6, 2024

Forbes Advisor recently reported on its anaylsis of the medical malpractice experiences of all 50 U.S. states and found that nationally, the U.S. pays out over $184 billion for medical malpractice cases, and that medical malpractice payments are approximately $552 per capita in the United States. Wi[...]

$2.5 Million Virginia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Inadequate Anesthesia During C-Section

January 24, 2024

On June 21, 2023, a Virginia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $2.5 million in favor of a woman who alleged that she was not provided adequate anesthesia during her Cesarean section delivery. The Virginia medical malpractice lawsuit alleged that she was in the hospital a[...]

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