Medical Malpractice Claims Lead To Legal Malpractice Claims
May 2, 2012
A Putnam County, West Virginia attorney and his two former law partners are being sued for legal malpractice for the third time in a year for their alleged wrongful handling of medical malpractice claims against the same doctor. In this most recent case filed on April 13, 2012, the three plaintiff[...]
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Epidemic Of Drug Babies In The U.S.
May 1, 2012
Babies born addicted to drugs due to their mothers’ use of illicit drugs during pregnancy is not new. However, an increasing epidemic of babies addicted to prescription medications, especially narcotics such as oxycodone, is particularly alarming. Many such newborns will be born with neonat[...]
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48 Million Without Health Insurance In U.S. In 2011
April 23, 2012
According to the recently released results of a survey of 2,100 adults between the ages of 19 ad 64 in the U.S., about 48 million Americans (26%) were without health insurance for at least part of the year during 2011. Of those who had a gap in health insurance coverage in the U.S. in 2011, 69% we[...]
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Colorado Medical Malpractice Verdict Finally Paid
April 21, 2012
When a 34-year-old woman arrived at a local Fort Collins, Colorado hospital Emergency Department in December, 2006, she complained to the emergency room doctor that she had the worst headache of her life and that she was weak and dizzy. The emergency room doctor diagnosed the woman’s condit[...]
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Oklahoma Nursing Home Abuse: What A Hidden Camera Revealed
April 20, 2012
In a disgusting and very disturbing case of nursing home abuse caught on camera, two Oklahoma nursing home caregivers responsible for the care of a 96-year-old resident were allegedly caught on video abusing the woman: one was seen hitting the woman in the face with rubber gloves and placing the gl[...]
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Surgical Fires
April 18, 2012
The last place you would expect to suffer burns from a fire would be while lying on a table in an operating room. But that is just what happened to a New York woman who was undergoing a Cesarean-section delivery of her baby on March 12, 2010. While she was under the influence of local anesthesia w[...]
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Maine Medical Malpractice Verdict For Methadone Overdose
April 17, 2012
Earlier this month, a medical malpractice jury in Maine deliberated for less than two hours before unanimously awarding a woman compensatory damages in the amount of $1,912,934 for her alleged brain damage caused by her doctor over-prescribing methadone that resulted in her experiencing an episode[...]
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