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Georgia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Post-Surgery Patient Suffered Stroke Due To Medication Error

February 17, 2025

On December 18, 2024, a Georgia medical malpractice lawsuit was filed against a hospital and a nurse employed by the hospital arising out of the post-operative care that a patient received following his heart surgery on August 9, 2023. The lawsuit alleges that the nurse mishandled the vasopressor No[...]

What Are The Types Of Medical Errors? – Part II

December 5, 2024

Surgical Errors Errors in surgery have the highest risk of severe patient injury and death. Intraoperative errors are estimated to be the primary issue in 75% of malpractice cases involving surgeons. Surgical errors involving the wrong site, patient, or procedure should never occur. Investigations i[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Partially Revives Medication Error Lawsuit

May 12, 2024

Background Facts Stacy McGhee filed a complaint for negligence and professional malpractice against Publix, Neighborhood Medical Associates, Inc., Nurse Practitioner Onyirmba, and Dr. Oluwole. In her complaint, McGhee alleged that she sought treatment at Neighborhood Medical on January 14, 2020 and [...]

Maine Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Hospital Patient Died After Given Wrong Medication

March 28, 2023

Lawsuit Alleges Hospital Patient Died After Given Wrong Medication: The widow of a hospital ICU patient who was given medication intended for another ICU patient has filed a Maine medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center (“EMMC”) in B[...]

Nurse Convicted Of Criminal Homicide For Wrong Medication Given To Hospital Patient

March 27, 2022

On March 25, 2022, a jury found a Tennessee nurse guilty of reckless homicide and impaired adult abuse for the death of a 75-year-old patient at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on December 27, 2017, after the nurse gave the patient the wrong medication despite warnings of the error. The patient[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Wrong Drug Administered During Surgery

October 31, 2021

A federal lawsuit was filed on October 4, 2021 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, alleging: “This is a medication error healthcare liability claim for money damages, arising from Defendant’s employees’ negligence in providing a surgeon with formalin in a[...]

Indiana Medical Malpractice Case Involving Death Of Prominent Molecular Biologist Due To Medication Error Has Been Settled

November 21, 2020

It has been reported that an Indiana medical malpractice wrongful death claim filed by the widow of a 61-year-old prominent molecular biologist who was in the hospital recovering from a stroke when a nurse recklessly caused his death on November 1, 2019, one week after giving him massive doses of fe[...]

North Carolina Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants

May 11, 2018

In its unpublished opinion filed on April 17, 2018, the Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“North Carolina Appellate Court”) held that the trial court erred in disqualifying the plaintiff’s expert witness and reversed the trial court’s order that granted summary judgment to the defe[...]

$325K Pharmacy Error Settlement Reached In Wisconsin Wrongful Death Case

February 25, 2018

A Wisconsin lawsuit alleging that the error of a pharmacist who filled a patient’s prescription with double the strength of an opioid that the patient had been taking for a year-and-a-half that led to her death has been settled for $325,000, which is $25,000 less than the $350,000 cap on nonec[...]

Utah Appellate Court Imputes Nurse’s Concealment Of Medication Error To The Nursing Home Where She Was Employed

January 31, 2018

The Utah Court of Appeals (“Utah Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on January 19, 2018 that the defendant nursing home’s efforts to avoid full liability for its nurse’s medication error and her subsequent concealment of that error are unavailing, largely because kno[...]

Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Despite Defendant’s Refreshed Recollection At Trial

February 4, 2017

In an unpublished opinion of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (“Appellate Court”) dated January 24, 2017, the Appellate Court affirmed the Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the defendant emergency room physician, finding that the defendant’s refres[...]

Hospital Pharmacy Tech Removed Fentanyl From 251 Medication Vials, Refilled Them With Water

November 12, 2016

A pharmacy tech in an Iowa hospital allegedly removed fentanyl from 252 medication vials that were placed on medication carts throughout the hospital and replaced the opioid medication with sterile water. The alleged substitutions occurred between August 26 and October 7, 2016, and may have affect[...]

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