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Texas Appellate Court Revives Medical Malpractice Case Involving Death Of Infant

September 23, 2025

Grace Okonrende and Chosen Okonrende, individually and as representatives of the estate of Champion Okonrende, brought negligence, gross negligence, wrongful death, and survival claims after their infant son, Champion, died in a hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit. They named as defendants Dr[...]

Texas Birth Injury Malpractice Lawsuit Challenges Damages Cap

August 29, 2025

A couple from Waco, Texas has filed a Texas birth injury medical malpractice lawsuit that also challenges the cap on medical malpractice damages in Texas. The medical malpractice lawsuit alleges: “The staff at Ascension Providence Hospital was negligent in failing to adequately respond with in[...]

Texas Midwife Arrested For Alleged Illegal Abortions

May 11, 2025

On March 17, 2025, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas, 48, for allegedly providing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of clinics in the Northwest Houston area. Rojas, a midwife known as “Dr. Maria,” was taken into custody in Waller Co[...]

Texas Appellate Court Rules Defendant Hospital Entitled To Sovereign Immunity From Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit

January 27, 2020

The Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals (“Texas Appellate Court”) stated in its Memorandum Opinion dated December 31, 2019 that “the gravamen of [the Texas medical malpractice wrongful death plaintiff’s] complaint is that the diagnosis and treatment of decedent Tracy Crawford&#[...]

Texas Doctor And Texas Pill Mill Owner Sentenced To 35 Years In Prison

October 6, 2018

A Texas physician and the owner of a Texas pain management clinic that federal prosecutors identified as a pill mill were sentenced on September 20, 2018 to 35 years (420 months) in prison for providing tens of thousands of unlawful prescriptions for millions of doses of opioids and other controlled[...]

Texas Chiropractor Failed To Obtain Informed Consent

December 3, 2012

On November 30, 2012, the Supreme Court of Texas (“Supreme Court”) stated in its written opinion that health care must be based on a patient’s informed consent and that a health care provider may be liable for failing to disclose to a patient the risks inherent in proposed treatment[...]

Texas Dental Malpractice Trial For Death Of 22 Month Old

October 2, 2012

A medical malpractice jury trial in Texas is shedding light on the circumstances of the death of a 22-month-old toddler who died the day after Christmas in December, 2009, as a result of alleged dental malpractice. The brain-dead toddler was placed on life-support for 15 days after the dental pro[...]

Texas Theft Of Nursing Home Medications

July 25, 2012

A certified medication aide at a Texas nursing home who had worked at the nursing home since December, 2010 has been charged with stealing medications intended for nursing home patients and giving them to her common-law husband to sell. It is alleged that the woman would document in the nursing ho[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Case For Endoscopy Resulting In Death

June 11, 2012

On May 12, 2012, the family of a 50-year-old man with muscular dystrophy who died as a result of an endoscopy filed a medical malpractice case against the gastroenterologist who had performed the procedure on the man. The medical malpractice defendants also include the gastroenterologist’s [...]

Texas Example Of A Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Claim

November 18, 2011

Nursing homes provide medical care to residents who need such care for short-term rehabilitation or long-term care. When nursing homes negligently fail to provide necessary care, or negligently provide care that they are required to provide to residents, then the nursing homes may be subject to med[...]

What Presidential Candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry REALLY Forgot

November 11, 2011

During the GOP presidential debate on November 9, 2011, current GOP presidential candidate (and current Texas Governor) Rick Perry had a “memory lapse” that has stirred discussion whether he is truly a viable presidential candidate. Governor Perry was unable to name the three federal age[...]

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