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Michigan Appellate Court Reverses Defense Summary Disposition For Nursing Malpractice Claim

September 21, 2020

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”), in its unpublished opinion dated August 13, 2020, stated: “Defendant is correct that the evidence showed that defendant’s nursing and medical staff undertook several interventions that were aimed at providing ad[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Holds Nurse Practitioner Cannot Testify As To Registered Nurse Standard Of Care

December 25, 2017

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) held in its December 12, 2017 published opinion involving a Michigan birth injury medical malpractice case that a nurse practitioner who spends the majority of her time practicing or teaching pursuant to her specialty ce[...]

Replacing Professional Nurses With Nursing Assistants In Hospitals Associated With Increased Deaths, Decreased Safety

November 27, 2016

A study published in the medical journal BMJ Quality & Safety, which was published online on November 15, 2016, analyzed adult acute care hospitals in Belgium, England, Finland, Ireland, Spain, and Switzerland and concluded: “A bedside care workforce with a greater proportion of profession[...]

Defense Verdict In Virginia Medical Malpractice Cardiac Death Case

September 2, 2015

On August 27, 2015, after a four-day trial and two-and-a-half hours of deliberations, a Virginia medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of a Virginia hospital and a nurse in a medical malpractice/wrongful death case filed by the widow of a man who was declared brain dead after he u[...]

$270K California Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Following Fall From Hospital Bed

July 10, 2015

The family of a 90-year-old woman who had fallen from her hospital bed while an inpatient in a California hospital in 2012 and suffered a fractured skull, bleeding in her brain, and a mid-shaft displaced and comminuted fracture of her femur as a result, filed a California medical malpractice wro[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Case Filed For Death Due To Overdose Of Pain Medication In Hospital

October 1, 2014

A Texas medical malpractice case was re-filed last week by the family of a 35-year-old woman who died three years ago from lethal doses of pain medications administered while she was hospitalized for lower back pain. The Texas wrongful death medical malpractice plaintiff is the surviving husband, w[...]

North Carolina $4 Million Verdict For Nursing Malpractice

May 26, 2013

During late April 2013, a Hertford County, North Carolina medical malpractice jury awarded $4 million to the estate of a deceased patient of a psychiatric acute care inpatient facility who died on April 24, 2009 after going into a diabetic coma on April 13, 2009 following an insulin overdose at[...]

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