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Tennessee Medical Malpractice Claim For Inmate’s Death

October 23, 2012

On October 15, 2012, the surviving wife of a Tennessee prison inmate filed a medical malpractice wrongful death claim against the Tennessee Department of Correction in which she alleges that her 48-year-old husband died in prison due to medical malpractice. Her husband had a lung x-ray in September [...]

Tennessee $7.8 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Necrotizing Fasciitis

September 3, 2012

On August 3, 2012, after a 15-day medical malpractice jury trial in Tennessee, a medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $7,816,740 in favor of a now-20-year-old man whose cut on his knee due to a fall onto an exposed nail in 2004 when he was 12-years-old was improperly trea[...]

Tennessee Nursing Home Fined For Resident’s Rape

September 2, 2012

The Fairpark Healthcare Center nursing home in Maryville, Tennessee, which is owned by Kindred Healthcare Inc. (“Kindred”), has been fined $3,000 by the Tennessee Department of Health and is being fined $6,000 per day by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”)[...]

Tennessee Appeals Court Orders New Trial After Defense Verdict In Medical Malpractice Case

July 18, 2012

On June 25, 2012, the Court of Appeals of Tennessee (“Appeals Court”) ordered a new trial for the plaintiffs in a medical malpractice case involving a newborn born with severe brain injuries allegedly due to medical malpractice. The original medical malpractice jury had returned a verdi[...]

Epidemic Of Drug Babies In The U.S.

May 1, 2012

Babies born addicted to drugs due to their mothers’ use of illicit drugs during pregnancy is not new. However, an increasing epidemic of babies addicted to prescription medications, especially narcotics such as oxycodone, is particularly alarming. Many such newborns will be born with neonat[...]

Tennessee Medical Malpractice Claim For Discarded Newborn

December 26, 2011

In June, 2009, an obstetrician (OB) in Tennessee delivered a baby with an irregular heart rate who was gasping for breath but moving his extremities immediately after birth. The OB decided without consulting with anyone that the newborn would not survive and thereafter deposited the newborn’[...]

Tennessee Medical Malpractice Verdict For Deadly Delayed Breast Cancer Diagnosis

December 24, 2011

In August, 2003, a 25-year-old Tennessee woman was examined by her OB/GYN who found a pea-sized lump in her left breast that the OB/GYN advised the woman was probably a cyst or fatty deposit. No further investigation or testing was done at that time. About eighteen months later, during the woman[...]

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