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Fake Nurse Illegally Treated Patients In Pennsylvania, Police Allege

September 7, 2025

On July 23, 2025, the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) Bureau of Criminal Investigation requested health care agencies and providers in Pennsylvania to review their employment records due to an investigation of suspected fraudulent activities involving Shannon Nicole Womack. Womack is alleged to have[...]

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[...]

Connecticut Appellate Court Affirms $3M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Perforated Rectum From Enema

May 29, 2022

The Connecticut Appellate Court held in its opinion dated February 4, 2022 that the trial court properly denied the defendant’s motion to set aside the over $3 million medical malpractice verdict, finding that the plaintiffs presented sufficient expert evidence for the jury to find that nurse [...]

Oklahoma Federal Class Action Lawsuit Seeks Compensation From Hospital For Reusing Needles

February 8, 2020

A class-action lawsuit filed on January 22, 2020 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma alleges: “Between January and April of 2018, a nurse employed by [the defendant hospital] violated protocols established by the National Centers for Disease Control and Pre[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Revives Medical Malpractice Case Against Agency Nurse Not Identified In Hospital Records

April 2, 2019

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion dated March 21, 2019: “Plaintiff and her counsel pursued reasonable steps to ascertain the true identity of Agency Nurse RN 104 before filing suit and before the statu[...]

Idaho Supreme Court Affirms $3.7M Medical Malpractice Verdict

September 23, 2018

In its opinion filed on September 6, 2018, the Supreme Court of the State of Idaho (“Idaho Supreme Court”) affirmed an Idaho medical malpractice verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $3,775,864.21 (the Idaho medical malpractice jury determined that the plaintiff and her husb[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Claims Hospital Nurse High On Meth Caused Baby’s Brain Damage

March 19, 2018

The parents of a baby who suffered brain damage while in the hospital have filed a Florida medical malpractice lawsuit in which they allege that a hospital nurse was high on methamphetamine when he negligent dislodged the baby’s breathing tube while giving him a bath, which resulted in the bab[...]

$9.5M Indiana Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict For Rehab Death

August 17, 2016

Earlier this summer, an Indiana medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $9.5 million in favor of the family of an obese 49-year-old man who died after the nurse at a rehabilitation facility failed to timely follow the orders of the man’s physician to transfer him to the [...]

Nursing Medical Malpractice In Louisiana

December 19, 2011

Louisiana’s Nursing Standard Of Care Nurses as well as other health care providers in Louisiana are subject to the same standard of care as physicians in Louisiana — a nurse is required to exercise the degree of skill ordinarily employed, under similar circumstances, by the members of th[...]

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