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Georgia Lawsuit Alleges Hospital’s Staffing Shortage Led To Patient’s Suicide

August 21, 2025

The family of a 35-year-old man who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and called 911 from a hotel on January 12, 2024, stating that he was having a nervous breakdown and needed help, has filed a medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital where he was brought by ambulance [...]

Nevada Supreme Court Holds Medical Provider May Be Liable For Patient’s Suicide

August 6, 2025

The Supreme Court of the State of Nevada stated in its Opinion filed on June 12, 2025: “In the instant medical malpractice action alleged that a medical provider’s negligence in treating his patient caused the patient to die by suicide. The district court granted summary judgment in favo[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Holds Mental Health Doctors Not Responsible For Patient’s Drowning Death

May 31, 2024

Following the death of Elzabad H. Ferguson III (“Chaz”), his parents, Elzabad H. Ferguson, Jr. and Wilhelmena Ferguson, filed an action against Blaire Bowers, D.O.; Steven Currier, M.D.; and Augusta Physicians Group, LLC, based on emergency mental health care they rendered to Chaz. Shortly after[...]

Confidential Settlement Reached in Chris Cornell Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

May 29, 2021

Rolling Stone has reported that the family of Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell has reached a confidential settlement in their 2018 medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit filed against a physician who allegedly overprescribed multiple medications for Cornell that “impaired [his] cognition, clou[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Denies Discovery Regarding Prior Suicides Committed By Jumping From Hospital’s Parking Garage

February 15, 2020

The Supreme Court of Alabama has denied a husband’s request for discovery regarding prior suicides committed by patients jumping from the defendant hospital’s parking garage in the husband’s Alabama medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital for his wife’[...]

$10M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Family Physician For Preventable Suicide

October 26, 2018

Earlier this month, a New York medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against the defendant family medicine doctor whom the jury found to have negligently treated a patient who had become increasing depressed and anxious, leading to the patient committing suicide, which the jury determined wa[...]

New York Appellate Court Revives Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit For Suicide Death

March 2, 2017

The New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division Third Judicial Department (“Appellate Court”) issued a decision on February 23, 2017 in which it held that the trial court had erred in granting summary judgment to the defendant hospital attending physician and the defendant outpatient[...]

Connecticut $8M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Suicide

January 17, 2014

In December 2013, a Connecticut medical malpractice jury determined that a former Connecticut physician and his employers were negligent in the medical care and treatment that led to a patient committing suicide (the patient also killed his wife, but the jury’s verdict was in favor of the man[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Upholds Medical Malpractice Verdict For Suicide

August 5, 2013

In its written opinion dated July 15, 2013, the Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Georgia Court of Appeals”) affirmed a Georgia medical malpractice jury’s verdict in the amount of $400,000 in compensatory damages for a knee infection claim, $500,000 in compensatory damages for a wro[...]

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