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West Virginia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit For Botched Breast Enlargement Surgery

June 7, 2013

A 27-year-old West Virginia woman and her husband filed a medical malpractice lawsuit on May 17, 2013 against her breast augmentation surgeon for his alleged medical negligence in performing breast enlargement surgery on February 4, 2010. The medical malpractice plaintiffs allege that the woman f[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Claim For Hearing Loss

July 14, 2012

A medical malpractice plaintiff in West Virginia filed his medical malpractice claim against a physician and the physician’s medical practice on June 18, 2012, alleging that the physician failed to timely and properly diagnosis the man’s complaints of hearing loss. The medical malpra[...]

$90.5 Million West Virginia Nursing Home Verdict Challenged

June 29, 2012

On June 28, 2012, the lawyers for the parties in a nursing home negligence case that resulted in a jury verdict in the amount of $90.5 million ($10 million for the alleged wrongful death of a nursing home resident and $80 million in punitive damages, based on claims of ordinary negligence, medical [...]

Medical Malpractice Claims Lead To Legal Malpractice Claims

May 2, 2012

A Putnam County, West Virginia attorney and his two former law partners are being sued for legal malpractice for the third time in a year for their alleged wrongful handling of medical malpractice claims against the same doctor. In this most recent case filed on April 13, 2012, the three plaintiff[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice: 124 Medical Malpractice Claims Against 1 Doctor In Only 7 Months Of Medical Practice

February 20, 2012

Wow. A former osteopathic doctor who performed surgeries at a West Virginia hospital has had 124 medical malpractice claims filed against him arising out of his only 7 months of medical practice at that hospital. In the most recent medical malpractice court hearing against him, the former doctor[...]

West VA Medical Malpractice Death Caused By Bowel Perforation

February 1, 2012

When a 67-year-old man who was suffering from multiple sclerosis and was paralyzed from the chest down went to a local West Virginia hospital to be treated for a urinary tract infection, the last thing he or his family would have anticipated would be that the man would never make it home again. Inst[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Jury Places High Value On Life

December 22, 2011

An 87-year-old woman suffering from dementia and Parkinson’s disease died as a result of dehydration and renal failure in a West Virginia nursing home, allegedly due to medical malpractice at the negligent nursing home where she had been a patient for only 20 days. The medical malpractice l[...]

In West Virginia, Your Life Is Worth Less Than In Texas

July 30, 2011

In a case decided by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia on June 22, 2011 (James D. MacDonald and Debbie MacDonald, his wife v. City Hospital, Inc. and Sayeed Ahmed, M.D.), the Court held that West Virginia Code Section 55-7B-8, which provides a $250,000.00 limit (cap) on the amount reco[...]

Medical Malpractice Claims In West Virginia — Official Report

May 27, 2011

According to the State of West Virginia Medical Malpractice Report from November, 2009, medical malpractice insurance companies had an operating profit in West Virginia from 2004 through 2006 and again in 2008. As of 2009, West Virginia averaged 280 malpractice claims per year (down from 285 in 20[...]

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