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$15 Million Colorado Medical Malpractice Verdict For Paralysis

August 6, 2012

Following a three-week trial that ended in late-July, 2012, a Colorado Springs, Colorado medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $15 million against a hospital and an emergency room physician for medical negligence that allegedly resulted in the paralysis of a 36-year-ol[...]

Medical Malpractice Claim For Transplanted Pancreas That Was Cancerous

August 4, 2012

On July 9, 2012, a woman in Illinois filed a medical malpractice claim against her transplant surgeon claiming that he transplanted into her a pancreas that had cancer. While the reason why the woman needed a pancreas transplant was not divulged, the life-saving surgery is typically performed on ve[...]

C. Difficile Infections

March 11, 2012

C. difficile (Clostridium difficile) infections remain one of the most serious and common healthcare-associated infections (“HAI”). In recent years, efforts in the U.S. to address and reduce HAIs in hospitals have met with some success, except for C. difficile infections. One reason f[...]

Maryland Orthopedic Surgeon Hit With Medical Malpractice Verdict

March 4, 2012

On February 21, 2012, a medical malpractice jury in a conservative Maryland county determined that a Maryland orthopedic surgeon was responsible for the permanent injuries suffered by his former patient because the orthopedic surgeon allegedly failed to properly monitor and evaluate his patient[...]

Kentucky Medical Malpractice Claim For Inmate’s Death

February 3, 2012

On January 31, 2012, the mother of a Kentucky inmate filed a wrongful death medical malpractice claim arising out of the death of her 26-year-old incarcerated son due to alleged failure to provide necessary medical care including the failure to provide him with his daily medicine for a congenital[...]

California Hospital Malpractice Results In Suffocation Death — And $100,000 Fine

February 2, 2012

According to California health regulators, the long-term nursing unit of a California hospital was responsible for the negligent medical treatment and death of an 81-year-old woman in June, 2011, who had a breathing tube in her throat. The investigative report determined that the nurse who was c[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Claim For Bugs Crawling Down Man’s Tracheal Tube

January 29, 2012

A Texas medical malpractice case that was filed on January 12, 2012 alleges that when the two sons of a hospitalized patient visited their father in a Houston, Texas area hospital last year, they were horrified to see ants and gnats crawling through their father’s tracheal tube and into the[...]

Medical Malpractice Claims In Other Countries

January 27, 2012

While we have been blogging about medical malpractice issues in the United States daily for almost one year, we thought we would broaden our horizons to see how other countries may address medical malpractice claims. We started to investigate medical malpractice cases in other Western countries and [...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Blind Infant

December 18, 2011

On November 7, 2011, a Texas medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $2.1 million for the blindness suffered by a premature baby as a result of the alleged medical negligence of her doctors and the hospital. The infant is now totally blind in her righ[...]

Newt Gingrich’s Views On Medical Malpractice

December 12, 2011

What Is Newt Gingrich’s Position On Medical Malpractice Claims In The United States? In his opinion published in The New York Times on February 21, 2010, Republican Presidential Hopeful (and current leading Republican contender) Newt Gingrich wrote as follows: CAT scans, blood tests, ultrasou[...]

Pennsylvania Nurse’s Medical Malpractice Results In Woman’s Loss Of Both Legs

November 27, 2011

A jury has determined that a 55 year-old woman was caused to lose both of her legs due to the medical malpractice of a nurse. The lawsuit alleged that the visiting home nurse failed to properly report a catheter infection that nearly killed the woman. Source The medical malpractice lawsuit filed [...]

Michigan Medical Malpractice Major Mistake Means Millions

November 26, 2011

On December 1, 1995, a newborn was delivered at a Michigan hospital weighing 10 pounds, 12 ounces (yes, you read that correctly). The delivering doctors failed to recognize that the baby was so large that a cesarean section delivery would be necessary. Instead, the doctors used Pitocin, which caus[...]

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