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Jury To Rule In A Medical Malpractice Case After A Failure To Diagnose A Bowel Obstruction
Ann Scroggins suffered a heart attack that took her life while undergoing treatment at Athens Regional Hospital under the care of Dr. Daniel Moldoveanu. She was determined to have had a bowel obstruction brought on from…
Delays In Cancer Diagnosis Continue To Create Preventable Fatalities And Medical Malpractice Suits
A recent study by Johns Hopkins revealed that medical errors are attributed to approximately 250,000 annual fatalities among patients. Often these deaths are the result of a delay in the diagnosis of some form of…
Will Early Discussion And Resolution (EDR) Be The Future Of Medical Malpractice Actions?
There are thousands of fatalities and over one million injuries that result from preventable medical mistakes in the U.S. annually. Ideally, reforms seek to reach a point where frivolous claims are held to a minimum…
Immediate Suspension Ordered For Florida Nursing Home Following Nine Deaths
Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration took action to immediately suspend the license of a nursing home in Hollywood Hills. During Hurricane Irma the facility lost its air conditioning, exposing residents to…
Johnson & Johnson A Victory In Talc Case
After losing three consecutive jury verdicts in St. Louis, Johnson & Johnson, the medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturer, won a lawsuit that was based upon an allegation that their talc-based products cause…
Arizona-based VA Allegedly Denied Veteran's Request For Medical Treatment
An Arizona-based Army veteran has filed a $50 million medical malpractice lawsuit against the Veterans Health Administration and the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center.
Electronic Health Record Documentation In Medical Malpractice Claims
Medical providers who face a claim of medical malpractice depend heavily on their electronic health record (EHR) documentation. Such information serves as an audit trail outlining the care provided. Often this critical…
Man Brings Medical Malpractice Claim After Surgery Leaves Him Blind In One Eye
Miguel Diaz sought treatment at Leon Medical Center (LMC) because he was experiencing cloudy vision due to cataracts. Diaz met with Dr. Jonathan Leon-Rosen, an ophthalmologist , who scheduled him for cataract surgery to…
Complications From Objects Left Inside A Patient After Surgery
When a person has an operation, he or she entrusts a surgeon's experience and expertise to perform the surgery and do more good than harm. A surgical procedure can require the use of a great deal of medical equipment…
St. Jude Medical In Hot Water Over Slow Recall
A warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration was sent to St. Jude Medical over its apparent lack of progress resolving issues with its implantable defibrillators. Defibrillators manufactured by St. Jude…
Appeals Court Rules Physician Is Not Shielded By Sovereign Immunity In Medical Malpractice Case
Dr. Allan Dinnerstein, who had a private practice and also worked at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, was a named defendant in a medical malpractice brought by the family of Ludana Prophete, a deceased patient. Dinnerstein…
Possible Changes Ahead For Kentucky Medical Malpractice Laws
It is not uncommon for states to implement a screening process for medical malpractice cases before they reach the trial stage of litigation. With rising health care costs and a substantial amount of frivolous lawsuits…
Surgical Error Leaves Iowa Woman Paralyzed, Unable To Speak
A woman is suing the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for $15 million after a mistake made during surgery to remove a non-cancerous tumor left her paralyzed on the right side, incontinent and unable to speak or…
Maryland Appeals Court Rules On Jury Instructions In Medical Malpractice Trial
An appeals court in Maryland recently ruled that a judge's instructions to a jury were not improper in a trial at a lower court. Justice Robert N. McDonald stated that “the court's instructions were not misleading and…
Patient Catches Fire During Surgery
The New York Department of Health as just released a report detailing the results of an investigation into a horrific surgical accident. While much of the Department of Health's investigation has been redacted from…
Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Following The Death Of 29-Year-Old Woman
The family of 29-year-old Stephanie Larkin filed a medical malpractice claim after she died following inpatient treatment at Yakima Regional Medical and Cardiac Center. Charles Walter Larkin III brought the claim in…
New Study Shows 50% Of Medical Malpractice Claims Paid By 2% Of Doctors
This month, the National Practitioner Data Bank , an organization that tracks and reports medical malpractice and “certain adverse actions related to health care practitioners, entities, providers, and suppliers,”…
Washington D.C. Hospital Facing Medical Malpractice Suit Involving Spinal Surgery Patient
George Washington Hospital is a defendant in a medical malpractice claim recently filed in D.C. Superior Court stemming from a woman's death shortly after having spinal fusion surgery. Dr. Warren Yu, the hospital's…
Politicians' Claims Of Medical Malpractice Crisis Unfounded, According To Experts
Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and Rep. Tom Price claim there is a medical malpractice crisis in American health care and vow to make tort reform part of their replacement for the Affordable Care Act. They say that…
Brain Damage After Allergic Reaction During MRI
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a valuable tool that is used to get images of the anatomy inside a patient. Contrast agents can be used during an MRI to provide images of anatomical structures or blood flow…
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