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Iowa Late Stroke Diagnosis Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Pattern Of Improper Care In ER

May 26, 2026

A recently filed Iowa medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that the defendant hospital’s medical staff negligently delayed diagnosing the decedent’s stroke, thereby unnecessarily delaying treatment and leading to his death nine days later. The decedent was brought by by ambulance to the h[...]

Pennsylvania Hospital Allegedly Failed To Properly Diagnose Patient’s Impending Stroke

April 3, 2025

Fifty-five-year-old David Rimsek was rushed to Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital in mid-January 2025 because he was having a right-sided sharp headache, pain that would not go away, nausea, vomiting, and left-sided tingling. Penn Highlands Mon Valley is a designated primary stroke center, advertisi[...]

Pennsylvania Hospital Found Liable For Failing To Diagnose And Treat Patient’s Stroke

April 2, 2025

“Penn Highlands Mon Valley is a Primary Stroke Center, offering expert stroke care and stroke management in southwestern Pennsylvania. While all of Penn Highlands ERs and hospitals are skilled at assessing and treating stroke patients, Penn Highlands Mon Valley’s advanced stroke certifi[...]

New York Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Radiologist And MRI Full Body Scan Company For Alleged Missed Findings Leading To Stroke

December 3, 2024

A medical malpractice complaint was filed on September 24, 2024 in the Supreme Court of the State of New York County of New York that alleges, in part: Prenuvo MRI scan failed to document that on July 15, 2023, the Prenuvo MRA sequence shows abrupt focal 60% narrowing and irregularity of the proxima[...]

Florida $2M Medical Malpractice Arbitration Award Set Aside

September 13, 2024

Background Facts On July 30, 2020, Mauricio Polifroni presented to North Shore Medical Center after suffering a stroke. His condition deteriorated and he died thirteen days after admission. North Shore Medical Center (“North Shore”) and Clara Navarro, Polifroni’s wife, agreed to participate in[...]

Can I Sue For Failure To Administer tPA?

August 12, 2024

On May 28, 2019, plaintiff Michelle Klapp, who was 49 years old at the time, was at work. Between 2:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., Klapp began to experience difficulty gripping a pen and writing. Klapp arrived at Oakwood Hospital at 3:36 p.m., and she was admitted as an emergency patient at 3:50 p.m. At app[...]

$41 Million Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict For Lawyer Who Suffered Avoidable Stroke

July 17, 2024

In early May 2024, after a one-month trial, a Cook County, Illinois medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a now 72-year-old lawyer who suffered a serious stroke because his medical providers failed to properly manage his anticogulation medication. On February 28, 2016, the lawyer[...]

$40M Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict For Negligent Medical Care Leading To Stroke

May 17, 2024

On February 29, 2024, an Illinois medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a stroke victim in the amount of $39.9 million for the negligence of a doctor in failing to control his blood pressure with medication that led to a devastating stroke weeks later. The former landscaper and l[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Tele-Medicine Company

November 30, 2022

Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Tele-Medicine Company: After Donna Harvard suffered a stroke at home, she was treated in the emergency room of John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital (“Hospital”), where the attending physician sought a consult with a neurologist from a tele-medicine compan[...]

Texas Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Expert’s Report Was Sufficient

January 18, 2022

The Texas Medical Liability Act (TMLA) requires a claimant to serve an expert report early in the proceedings on each party against whom a health care liability claim is asserted. TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 74.351(a) (West Supp. 2021). The Texas Supreme Court has explained that “elici[...]

New York Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment Inappropriate In tPA Medical Malpractice Case

July 6, 2021

In April 2017, New York medical malpractice plaintiff E. Ann Holland was delivered by ambulance to defendant Cayuga Medical Center symptomatic of a stroke. After a CT scan revealed that she was indeed suffering a stroke in the left cerebral artery and that it was ischemic in nature, the physician on[...]

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