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Texas Hospice Nurse Who Admitted To Hastening Patients’ Deaths Hasn’t Been Charged With Murder

July 25, 2018

A 34-year-old Texas hospice nurse who reportedly admitted that she intentionally overdmedicated two hospice patients in order to hasten their deaths, at the alleged direction of her employer’s CEO, apparently will avoid being charged with murder by agreeing to plead guilty to one count of cons[...]

Texas Medicare Fraud Scheme Results In Long Prison Sentences

November 6, 2012

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that two Texas men have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for their alleged participation in a Medicare fraud scheme involving durable medical equipment (“DME”). The manager and driver for a Houston, Texas DME company received prison se[...]

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 Doctor Defending First Of 18 Medical Malpractice Cases

September 19, 2012

A Wichita Falls, Texas doctor is presently involved in jury selection in one of at least eighteen local medical malpractice cases filed against him. And medical malpractice claims are not the only professional claims that must concern him — the FBI raided the doctor’s office in April, 20[...]

What Is Medical Malpractice? (Idaho, New Mexico, Texas, Virginia)

September 15, 2012

What is medical malpractice? Here are the “official” definitions of medical malpractice from Idaho, New Mexico, Texas, and Virginia: Idaho TITLE 6, ACTIONS IN PARTICULAR CASES, CHAPTER 10, MEDICAL MALPRACTICE, 6-1012. Proof of community standard of health care practice in malpractice[...]

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 Medical Malpractice Claim Based On Surgeon’s Disability

April 13, 2012

A Texas woman has recently filed a medical malpractice claim against her former surgeon, claiming that the surgeon was dealing with his cancer at the time of her surgery that led to the surgeon’s failure to perform her surgery properly due to his alleged physical disability from the cancer and[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Claim For Bugs Crawling Down Man’s Tracheal Tube

January 29, 2012

A Texas medical malpractice case that was filed on January 12, 2012 alleges that when the two sons of a hospitalized patient visited their father in a Houston, Texas area hospital last year, they were horrified to see ants and gnats crawling through their father’s tracheal tube and into the[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Blind Infant

December 18, 2011

On November 7, 2011, a Texas medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $2.1 million for the blindness suffered by a premature baby as a result of the alleged medical negligence of her doctors and the hospital. The infant is now totally blind in her righ[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Reform (Unintended) Results

October 11, 2011

Under Governor Rick Perry, Texas has enacted some of the most draconian medical malpractice “reforms” whereby the innocent victims of medical malpractice negligence are highly restricted in the claims they can bring against negligent doctors and other Texas health care providers and in t[...]

How Limits On Noneconomic Damages Affect Medical Malpractice Cases In Texas And Elsewhere

August 18, 2011

Now that an ever-growing number of states in the United States are enacting limitations (“caps”) on the amount that medical malpractice victims can recover for their pain, suffering, mental anguish, disfigurement and other noneconomic injuries caused by careless and negligent medical ca[...]

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