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Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
February 8th, 2007
A woman who suffered a debilitating seizure after having a tumor surgically removed has won a $16 million verdict in a medical malpractice lawsuit against the medical school at which the surgery was performed, and the doctor who performed it.
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June 15th, 2006
The family of a 5-year-old boy who suffered severe cognitive and developmental deficiencies as a result of improperly administered medication was recently awarded $30 million in damages by a Philadelphia jury.
Daniel Keenan, a twin, suffered f...
Birth Injury
December 2nd, 2005
A medical malpractice case involving a newborn baby brain damaged during delivery has resulted in Connecticut''s biggest ever medical malpractice award. After five weeks of testimony at Waterbury Superior Court, the decision was unanimous, and the jury...
Medical Negligence
August 2nd, 2006
A Kentucky jury awarded the family of a woman who died as a result of medical negligence $9 million in damages yesterday.
Jennifer Beglin, 40, underwent elective surgery at the University of Louisville Hospital in July 2003 and ...
Obstetrical Care
November 21st, 2005
Canadian researchers report that pregnant women with abnormal placentas appear to be at a twofold risk of developing early cardiovascular disease compared to women without these problems.
After looking at more than 1 million women who deliver...
Medical Malpractice Law
November 1st, 2007
Legislators in Massachusetts have proposed two new bills that would protect doctors who apologize to patients after making a mistake. If passed, the laws would make physician admissions of guilt inadmissible in Read More...
Medical Malpractice Claims
January 16th, 2006
Arizona attorneys are uniting to defeat a pending Arizona Medical Association campaign to limit the amount of non-medical damages one can receive in a medical malpractice suit. Doctors are arguing that the increasing cost of excessive punitive damages ...
Wrong Diagnosis
June 23rd, 2008
A student at Ohio University recently underwent an arm amputation that her parents feel is due to the wrong diagnosis given to h...
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
August 17th, 2007
In May 2004, 5-month-old Parker Kohl developed RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), a viral disease. He also had a preexisting heart condition. His parents Darius and Karen Kohl took him to Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) in Honolulu, Hawaii. At the t...
Birth Injury
October 4th, 2007
A $12 million verdict was handed down Tuesday in a medical malpractice case involving a 7-year-old boy who became disabled as a result of injury at birth. The award i...
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
October 23rd, 2006
The family of a one-year-old baby who was left severely brain damaged as a result of medical negligence in an army hospital was awarded $16.5 million for their losses and suffering.
Izzy Peterson was born healthy in January 2005 before a docto...
Birth Injury
February 5th, 2004
A new, four-year study presented at the February 5 Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine''s annual meeting has found women who have vaginal birth after having Caesarean deliveries are at increased risk for maternal morbidity and serious complications...
Medical Malpractice
February 20th, 2004
After a woman gave birth to a severely handicapped son in October 1998, she filed a medical malpractice lawsuit. The birth injuries were a result of the doctors failing to quickly perform a C-section after realizing the baby was in distress, according ...
March 11th, 2004
The Virginia State Senate and the House of Delegates passed competing proposals in March to boost funding for a state program that pays medical expenses of children injured at birth.
About 75 children currently participate in the Birth-Rel...
February 24th, 2004
Representatives of six families have been urging Senators to oppose a bill that has been introduced that would set a $250,000 limit on compensation for women and their babies that have suffered brain damage, disfigurement, mutilation, blindness, and ot...
February 12th, 2007
A new study found that black Americans who are being treated for a stroke actually have worse outcomes when they are treated at hospitals that treat a large number of minority patients. The researchers found no racial disparity at hospitals that treate...
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
August 25th, 2006
A Florida Woman was awarded $8.25 million after a botched breast augmentation and lift procedure caused her to lose both breasts.
Christy Allis was 28 when she decided to undergo plastic surgery in 2003 with Dr. Luciano Boemi. During the proce...
October 31st, 2006
A Staten Island jury awarded $3.9 million to a man who suffered severe medical problems after two doctors performed a botched surgical procedure that made his condition worse.
“No amount of money could make me feel the way I felt in court toda...
Medical Malpractice
September 22nd, 2004
Botox is on trial for the first time since emerging as one of America''s fastest growing cosmetic treatments. A Hollywood socialite Irena Medavoy, and wife of film producer Mike Medavoy, has sued a celebrity dermatologist Arnold Klein and Botox manufac...
December 9th, 2005
A recent study showed that the loss of brain cells during a stroke takes place at an incredibly high rate. The study also showed that people should recognize symptoms of a stroke so that they can act quickly to help the victim. Stroke victims who recei...
October 4th, 2006
A Hillsborough County, Florida jury has awarded $217 million in damages to a man who suffered severe brain damage after doctors in a hospital emergency room misdiagnosed symptoms of his stroke.
The original verdict of $116.7 million included e...
January 3rd, 2007
A Florida woman who suffered severe brain damage after a botched surgery was granted $16 million in compensation for her losses.
In 2001, 48-year-old Lourdes Landis underwent surgery to remove a benign tumor in her brain. Shortly after her dis...
Cancer Misdiagnosis
The accuracy of diagnostic mammograms varies according to radiologist, with doctors missing on average 20 percent of breast cancer diagnoses and some as many a...
Nursing Malpractice
March 29th, 2006
The second largest nursing home chain in California, Pleasant Care Corp., will pay $1.35 million to the state in a lawsuit settlement, which alleged negligent care and abuse in many of its facilities. Pleasant Care pleaded no contest to the charges of ...
Hospital Errors
June 30th, 2008
According to reports, hospitals throughout the state of California are under fire due to the amount of hospital errors that have...
Medical Malpractice
January 30th, 2004
A British led study considered the most detailed study to date has indicated that x-rays are the cause for about 700 cases a cancer a year. Everyone is told about the small risk of cancer, but due to the large number of people exposed to x-ray risks, t...
Wrong Diagnosis
October 3rd, 2007
A New York woman has filed a lawsuit against the lab that mislabeled her tissue sample—a mistake that led her to be misdiagnosed with breast c...
Medical Malpractice
September 20th, 2004
According to files from the Cook County courthouse, the number of medical malpractice lawsuits in the Chicago-land area has declined 24 percent in the first eight months of 2004. Considering the so-called medical malpractice “crisis” that the state...
September 27th, 2006
A five-year-old girl is still in a coma after undergoing routine dental surgery that required anesthesia. During the procedure to cap some teeth and fill two cavities, Diamond Brown allegedly stopped breathing and failed to regain consciousness after s...
Birth Injury
February 12th, 2008
A Connecticut jury awarded $38.5 million in damages to a boy born with cerebral palsy and his family. The verdict is believed to be one of the largest of its kind ever handed down in the state.
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Medical Malpractice
March 3rd, 2004
Governor Rowland has indicated that he is willing to compromise on his proposals addressing the skyrocketing costs of medical malpractice insurance in the state of Connecticut.
Rowland, who previously backed a $250 thousand cap on jury awa...
May 18th, 2004
The Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital was fined $20,000 by state health officials after an investigation into two recent deaths of cosmetic surgery patients. Both women, one of whom was the author Olivia Goldsmith, were reported by the hospital to...
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
March 31st, 2006
A woman filed a lawsuit against San Joaquin County in California, its public hospital, and doctors on charges of medical malpractice after her serious auto accident last March.
Roberta Sanchez claims the injuries she suffered as a result of t...
Medical Malpractice
January 4th, 2008
A new study shows that hospitals are often too slow in responding to sudden cardiac arrest, increasing the risk of serious brain injury and death.
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Dental Malpractice
November 4th, 2005
Two Florida dentists filed a motion for a temporary injunction to shut down a Web site that was critical of them and a Florida Department of Health''s review of their patient''s complaints, but a South Florida court ruled last week that they have to pa...
Doctor Mistakes
December 4th, 2007
A new study suggests that doctors don’t always report incompetent or impaired colleagues, even though almost all think they should.
The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, is believed to be the first to of its kind. R...
Medical Malpractice
July 23rd, 2007
A recent study reported that 90 percent of the 3,000 doctors surveyed admitted having made a medical error or narrowly missed making such an error. A "near miss," a minor medical error, or a serious error (i.e., an error resulting in permanen...
February 14th, 2007
A survey asking doctors about how their personal moral views may influence their decisions to not offer or supply certain treatments found that many doctors do allow their personal moral objections to affect the way they treat or refer patients.
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November 10th, 2005
A major study being released in today''s New England Journal of Medicine reports a first-trimester screening test can reliably identify fetuses likely to be born with Down syndrome, allowing the information to be provided to the expectant women much ea...
Medical Malpractice
January 15th, 2008
Emergency room wait times are increasing, even for heart attack patients who require immediate treatment, according to a new Harvard study published in the journal Health Affairs.
Increasing Wait Times
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May 19th, 2005
In recent years, the focus on patient safety has been one of the top priorities in hospitals, but a new study indicates significant change is hard to come by. As many as 98,000 Americans die every year because of medical errors, according to the study...
Medical Negligence
May 14th, 2007
In May, New York state’s Westchester County agreed to pay a Yorktown woman $75,000 after she received a false diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) from the county&...
Birth Injury
November 2nd, 2006
A Connecticut mother and her young son were awarded $2.7 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit filed after the boy suffered Erb''s palsy—a serious condition caused by nerve damage to the arm—allegedly caused by the doctor''s negligence during his bi...
Failure To Diagnose
March 29th, 2007
A jury has awarded $1.2 million to the family of a woman who allegedly died as a result of two doctors' failure to diagnose a perforated stomach ulcer in 2002.
Wrong Diagnosis
September 27th, 2005
Sheri Milburn, of Neosho, Missouri, was awarded $326,000 in damages stemming from a faulty diagnosis and treatment. The facility, Freeman Health Systems of Missouri, was found to be at fault in diagnosing and treating the former schoolteacher’s append...
Medical Malpractice
September 28th, 2006
A fifty-six year old women was led to believe she had breast cancer for more than a year and underwent harsh radiation treatments before she was told a medical lab mixed up her biopsy tests with another woman''s.
Lynn Yurosko has filed a medic...
September 6th, 2004
In 2003, the Florida Legislature passed a $500,000 noneconomic damages cap, which doctors say does not prevent premium hikes that are forcing them to leave the state, retire early or forgo high-risk procedures. Doctors have proposed a constitutional ch...
March 20th, 2007
The mother of a 520-pound woman who died after a gastric bypass error her has filed a lawsuit against the operating surgeon and the hospital in which she had the procedure performed.
The lawsuit filed by Colleen Shepherd claims that surgeon Dr...
September 15th, 2006
A Wood County, Ohio jury awarded an eight-year-old girl $1.1 million after she suffered serious birth injuries, leaving her right arm paralyzed.
The medical malpractice lawsuit brought by Robin and Jay Instone, the girl''s parents, was filed a...
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
November 13th, 2006
A new study found that only one-third of hospitals provide emergency treatment to heart attack patients fast enough to meet the scientific standards for saving lives. Researchers also claim that even top doctors and hospitals meet the American College ...
Medical Malpractice
February 2nd, 2007
Research shows that heart disease is misdiagnosed much more often in women than men.
Jean Horgan checked into a hospital complaining of an irregular heartbeat. “I was told, ‘Go home and take tranquilizers. You''ll be fine, you''re under stress...
Medical Negligence
March 4th, 2008
A hepatitis C outbreak at a colonoscopy clinic in Nevada may just be “the tip of an iceberg,” said the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday.
Large Number of Patients Potentially Exposed
December 18th, 2007
A Massachusetts woman recently won $2.5 million for damages suffered as a result of medical negligence. The woman underwent nearly seven years of treatment for ...
Birth Injury
January 31st, 2005
Premature birth is a serious and growing problem in the United States, according to the March of Dimes. The rate of premature births in the U.S. has increased 29 percent from 1981, with more than 470,000 babies born prematurely each year.
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Medical Malpractice
December 18th, 2006
A Los Angeles hospital has closed its pediatrics and neonatal intensive care units to new patients after a possibly fatal bacterium infected seven children including one newborn who might have died from the injury, according to officials.
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Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
June 19th, 2006
A medical malpractice lawsuit involving a baby born with serious brain damage and March 28th, 2006 In a 21-count medical malpractice, wrongful death, and product liability lawsuit against Gateway Regional Medical Center in Illinois and drug manufacturer Pfizer, the son of a woman who suffered a heart attack claims the hospital and drug company’s neg... April 4th, 2007 Almost three percent of all patients in American hospitals may be the victims of hospital errors, a new study found. The report also found that about one in four of the patients that do experience a hospital mistake will die from it. ... November 16th, 2006 A new report analyzing the rate of hospital-acquired infections shines a spotlight on one of the countries deadly and hidden problems. This week, the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council revealed the number of hospital infections ... January 2nd, 2008 A handful of intensive care units will soon be fitted with copper equipment to see if the metal is any better at preventing the spread of harmful bacteria than stainless steel, the current standard. Hospital Infections Deadly August 10th, 2005 A Brunel University student, Claire Dunne, created a new invention called the “Brilliant” bracelet. The bracelet was created to match medicines against the wearer’s prescription to help avoid hospital errors. So far, the wristband has alrea... November 30th, 2004 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston has spent the last decade reforming its hospital to ensure patient safety comes first. While a hospital is supposed to put patient safety first, reports in recent years have shown how many problems exist in the n... June 7th, 2004 According to new research considered the most comprehensive study done on the impact of children and safety in hospitals, more than 4,000 children died in 2000 because of safety lapses. The children's deaths cost an additional $1 billion in hospital ch... April 7th, 2006 A woman filed a negligence lawsuit against a hospital after her premature baby’s body was found mixed in with the laundry. The baby, Isabella Rosa Pickney died minutes after she was born. “I did get to hold her, I got to feel her breath on ... April 5th, 2005 The U.S. government has unveiled a consumer oriented Web site that is designed to give people information regarding the quality of care at hospitals across the country. The site allows people to assess seventeen different measures of quality ... October 19th, 2006 A lot of older woman who have developed breast cancer are not being properly diagnosed or treated, particularly in community hospitals and clinics, states a new report published in the Archives of Surgery. A Growing Problem March 7th, 2007 Indiana recently became one of the first states to require hospitals and surgery centers to report the errors made by their physicians. Some of the results of the first report were released yesterday. The report shockingly revealed that one of the most... July 21st, 2006 A report issued yesterday by the Institute of Medicine said that medication errors injure or kill at least 1.5 million Americans every year – a number that amounts to one mistake per hospital per day. The most common drug errors are caused by ... March 27th, 2007 The Justice Department has released a report Sundaycontaining data on medical malpractice claims in seven states, including Illinois, Florida, Missouri, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada and Texas. Prompted by ongoing debate about the reason for th... February 4th, 2008 Kaiser Permanente will pay $3.2 million to a teenage girl who suffered brain damage during her delivery at the HMO’s Anaheim hospital. Untimely C-section May 5th, 2006 Kaiser Permanente imperiled 25 transplant patients in Northern California when it denied them of the chance to receive perfectly matched kidneys last year because of paperwork errors and delays. Kaiser started its first kidney transplant progr... May 16th, 2006 Three patients filed lawsuits late last week against Kaiser Permanente - the giant HMO accused of denying its members kidney transplants because of paperwork errors. One man died after Kaiser refused him a kidney transplant as... February 4th, 2004 A Public Citizen Report has challenged the "crisis" state that the Kentucky medical Association is claiming. According to data from government sources, the total amount paid for medical malpractice insurance by the state''s health care providers has ac... February 5th, 2004 Doctors and medical malpractice victims packed into the Kentucky Capitol on Thursday, urging lawmakers to adopt their respective plans, as the debate over medical malpractice legislation continues. State legislators are considering separat... February 21st, 2004 The House has just passed legislation to create a mutual insurance authority to sell medical malpractice coverage and to set up pretrial reviews of Kentucky medical malpractice claims in attempts at weeding out the "frivolous'' cases. If approved by vo... April 19th, 2006 A St. Louis County Jury found Northern Refractive Surgery Center negligent in its care and treatment of a man who underwent LASIK surgery at the center, and awarded him over $3 million in damages. Lowell Larson, 34, filed the medical malp... November 4th, 2004 After doctors and lawyers spent an unprecedented amount of money battling out limits on medical malpractice damage awards and attorney fees in malpractice cases, the verdict reflected the very divided public opinion mirroring the elections as a whole. ... July 13th, 2004 According to medical malpractice lawyers, doctors and insurance companies have been unrightfully blaming high malpractice premiums on lawyers and saying that large medical malpractice awards are given for frivolous claims. The medical malpractice lawye... January 17th, 2007 A new study dispels convictions commonly held by business and medical lobbying interest groups that medical malpractice lawsuits are to blame for out-of-control health care costs and short doctor supply. The report, titled “The Great Medical M... September 22nd, 2004 Some doctors have been using a controversial tactic, asking patients for voluntary contributions to offset rising medical malpractice insurance premiums. The Washington Post reported on this new practice that New York-based Center for Medical Consumers... November 16th, 2007 A judge in Illinois deemed unconstitutional a 1995 state law that placed limits on jury awards in medical malpractice cases. Because the law was judged unconst... September 20th, 2005 A family in San Mateo, CA, has filed a lawsuit against the medical center due to the death of a man who was prescribed 10 times more cancer medication than needed. The man, 41-year-old Armando Castellanos, died last year on August 16. Mr. ... May 20th, 2005 Half a million Americans have cerebral palsy, but doctors are often unclear why it happens. In one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts in Massachusetts’s history, a jury took less than four hours to find two general obstetricians negligent in ... April 15th, 2004 The US Senate has voted for the second time in the past three months to block a bill that would benefit HCA, Inc., the largest hospital chain in the nation, and other healthcare providers by limiting the amount that could be awarded to victims of medic... September 22nd, 2005 Four-year-old Torajee Bobbett was rushed to Wilkes-Barre Mercy Hospital with debilitating stomach pain and other symptoms. Shortly after his admission to the hospital, the boy died. A recent lawsuit alleges that the boy sat in the hospital without a ... March 10th, 2008 A Massachusetts jury awarded $14.5 million in damages to a widower whose wife died less than 32 hours after an elective thyroid surgery in 2001. Shannyn MacPherson, 30, died when she developed a condition known as “abdominal compartment s... April 16th, 2004 Public Citizen consumer group has ranked the performance of the 50 state medical boards, as well as the District of Columbia using information from the Federation of State Medical Boards. The consumer group based the ratings on the rate of serious dis... October 28th, 2004 A study of 24 doctors caring for seriously ill patients in a hospital found those restricted to working no more than 16 hours without a break made about one-third fewer serious errors that could harm patients. The first study directly to examine th... April 9th, 2008 Medical errors at hospitals are costing the U.S. billions—$8.8 billion between 2004 and 2006 to be exact, a new study released Tuesday shows. February 27th, 2004 The U.S. Senate medical malpractice bill brought to the floor on February 24, 2004 was defeated. The defeated medical malpractice bill was a victory for consumers, according to Public Citizen. Needing 60 votes, the bill, that would limit obstetrics and... March 3rd, 2006 A couple sued Pomerado Hospital in Poway California for wrongful death and medical malpractice when the facility failed to treat their ailing four-week-old son. According to the claim the hospital staff neglected to quickly see or triage the i... March 31st, 2004 The temporary spikes in Georgia medical malpractice insurance rates have been misdiagnosed in order to make legal changes that would take away patient rights. According to Public Citizen consumer group, government data and other reliable information sh... October 24th, 2004 According to a government study, an estimated 454,383 people suffered injuries from medical devices in a 12-month period from 1999 to 2000. The actual number of injuries is believed to be much higher in actuality, according to researchers from the ... April 23rd, 2004 Negligence and mismanagement claims are threatening the future of Los Angeles'' MLK Hospital. Federal investigations have looked into claims of negligence and mismanagement. In documents obtained by The Associated Press, in addition to interviews with ... November 30th, 2004 State Senate President Mike Miller is scheduled to speak on medical malpractice to a luncheon group filled with doctors in Hagerstown, Maryland. Doctors have viewed Miller as blocking their attempts for medical malpractice reform that would limit jury ... January 19th, 2004 The medical malpractice debate has continued to be controversial. Doctors and insurers have been claiming the increase in malpractice insurance rates has been the result of high payout lawsuits. Consumer groups and patients believe this argument is an ... January 26th, 2004 Last year, legislation that would have limited the pain and suffering of medical malpractice awards to $250,000, as well as limiting punitive damages to the same amount or twice the patient''s actual financial loss, but it died in Congress. Now, Bush i... November 30th, 2004 Sutter Health has said medication errors have been reduced by 28,000 actual incidents over the past year and a half because of bar-coding doses of medication. Some of the prevented medication errors could have contributed to injury or death. February 8th, 2008 Medication errors are more likely to be made by depressed doctors, a new study published in the British Medical Journal suggests. As many as 98,000 people die every year as a result of such errors. The Research February 17th, 2004 Congress is currently trying to pass medical malpractice legislation that Public Citizen consumer group finds to be detrimental to consumers and victims of medical malpractice ultimately. The U.S. Senate is trying to pass a bill labeled as "Healthy Mot... November 28th, 2006 An Oregon women suffering from breast cancer after a radiologist incorrectly assessed her mammogram was awarded $5.7 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit. The jury found the clinic that misdiagnosed Julie Joel''s cancer made a negligent er... August 18th, 2006 A New York man who alleged a hospital negligently mishandled the body of his mother after she died, was awarded $1 million in compensation for his pain and suffering. Veronica Gibson died in the hospital during a routine operation. After her d... November 21st, 2004 In 1999, a report titled “To Err is Human” called for drastic reduction in the number of medical mistakes after finding accidental overdoses, infections and other caregiver errors had become a leading cause of death. The report said up to 98,000 U.S. ... March 25th, 2008 A 10-year-old boy who suffered injury at birth was recently awarded $19 million in damages by a Monmouth County jury. Bonnie Kowalski filed ... October 30th, 2007 A New York woman whose 12-year-old son died from the drug-resistant staph infection MRSA announced that she is suing a city hospital for $25 million. “What my son go... February 22nd, 2007 A sailor's family has filed a $150 million suit against the Navy claiming that a Navy hospital acted negligently during the birth of their child resulting in serious birt... March 14th, 2007 The parents of a boy born with Erb's palsy have filed a lawsuit claiming their child suffered from shoulder dystocia at birth and was born ... March 17th, 2004 New Jersey lawmakers worked on Monday to rewrite insurance regulations in an attempt to cut costs for medical malpractice insurance. Voting 46 to 17, with 16 abstentions, the State Assembly approved a complete overhauls that would aim to reduce insuran... February 23rd, 2004 According to federal government data showing the number of payments and the monetary amount of payments made to obstetrical medical malpractice, the amount has de... May 21st, 2008 An Ohio woman was awarded more than $22 million for severe and permanent birth injuries sustained by her daughter in 1997. After a five week... July 11th, 2006 The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled unanimously in favor of the family of a brain-damaged child last week, overruling a state law that limits jury awards against public agencies at $200,000. The decision revives a lawsuit filed by the parents of... July 14th, 2006 A woman left disabled by a botched hospital procedure was awarded $21 million in compensatory damages on Wednesday by a Kane County jury. Naria Bun, 41, was admitted to Proven St. Joseph Hospital in Elgin to be treated for a non-life-threateni... March 3rd, 2006 The parents of a four-year-old boy who died in 1999, were awarded $2.1 million by a jury this month that found a Pennsylvania hospital was liable for their son’s death. The lawsuit was filed in 2000 by the boy’s parents, Christian A. Jesse... February 1st, 2007 A man who had a surgical procedure performed on the wrong side of his vocal cords is suing the hospital where he received the procedure and the physicians involved. What Happened? The 66-year-old cancer survivor had g... July 12th, 2004 In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Texas law allowing patients to sue their health plans for damages in state court was no longer allowed, causing mixed opinions. The ruling over the Texas law was made in response to two lawsuit... The Senate rejected legislation on Monday that would have limited damages for victims of medical malpractice. The first of two bills proposed by Republicans would have capped non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases to $750,000 with n... October 3rd, 2004 According to a Pennsylvania Supreme Court study, the number of Pennsylvania medical malpractice lawsuits filed in the state dropped significantly in 2003. Due in part to changes in court rules, the study found a 26 percent drop from 2000 to 2003 in the... April 30th, 2004 The Pennsylvania Medical Society made claims that a medical malpractice crisis was present in Pennsylvania. In order to counter what the medical society claimed was driving out as many as 1,700 doctors from the state, the group insisted changes needed ... March 5th, 2004 Claims that the Pennsylvania Medical Society and Pennsylvania physicians have been making that increases in patient lawsuits and skyrocketing jury awards have caused the "crisis" state in Pennsylvania medical malpractice insurance rates is false, accor... July 5th, 2007 A popular reproductive technology procedure that has long been touted as a method of boosting the successful birth rate for older women actually reduces the birth rate by a third, according to a Dutch study published today in The New England Journal of... A Lancaster County jury has awarded a woman nearly $8 million after she suffered serious injuries resulting from a pharmacy error that led her to take too much medication. A judge ordered Eckerd Corporation, owner of the pharmacy, to pay the v... March 17th, 2006 A new study of almost 7,000 patients in 12 metropolitan areas found that all Americans, regardless of race, gender, or income, are at risk for getting substandard health care. While there is a slight difference of care received between group... September 18th, 2006 Two premature infants were killed and four other newborn''s lives were put at risk after they were given the wrong dose of heparin, an anti-coagulant drug, in the neonatal intensive care unit at Methodist Hospital, officials announced yesterday. Hospital Errors
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October 19th, 2007
A Missouri woman and her husband have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Walgreens, claiming that a prescription error made at one of the company's pharmac...
Medical Malpractice
September 13th, 2006
California''s court-appointed prison healthcare supervisor recommended raising the salaries for medical professionals in prisons, a move that could cost an annual $24 million if the plan is approved.
Medical care has been one of the biggest is...
September 20th, 2007
Medical lapses in the California prison system may have caused as many as one in six deaths last year, according to a new report on medical care in 32 lockup f...
April 6th, 2004
The Public Citizen consumer group has issued a press release notifying consumers to "Stop the Latest Attack on Consumer''s Legal Rights!" The U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has tried in the past to push medical malpractice legislation through t...
Hospital Malpractice
October 11th, 2006
Those who are admitted into intensive care unit (ICU) rooms that were once occupied by patients with antibiotic-resistant bacteria are at an increased risk of developing severe infections, according to the results of a new U.S. study.
The two ...
Surgical Errors
November 27th, 2007
A hospital in Rhode Island received a reprimand and a $50,000 fine from the state Department of Health after a doctor performed surgery on the wrong side of a patient’s brain. It was the third brain Read More...
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
May 1st, 2008
San Francisco city officials have agreed to settle a medical malpractice case for $5.1 million, reportedly one of the largest such settlements...
March 30th, 2006
A Hawaiian jury awarded $5.6 million damages in a medical malpractice and wrongful death lawsuit against a surgeon who implanted a screwdriver in the back of a patient during surgery.
The surgeon Robert Ricketson was found to be 65 percent li...
Medical Malpractice
December 5th, 2006
A new study indicates that a second opinion from a cancer diagnosis specialist may result in a significant modification in the recommended course of treatment and even reduce the risk of breast cancer misdiagnosis.
The study, published in the ...
September 22nd, 2004
A massive lawsuit was filed in 2000 by the U.S. government to reimburse expenses paid out to women injured by silicone gel breast implants. The breast implants were introduced to the U.S. market in 1963 and recalled by 1992, with the exception of clini...
Medical Negligence
May 30th, 2008
According to reports, several hospitals throughout Southern California are being cited and fined for putting patients at risk.
Among the hospitals under fire are Harbor at UCLA, Pomona Valley Medical Center, and St. Joseph Hospital of Orange...
June 11th, 2008
A Tennessee woman who is now partially paralyzed because of a spinal infection she developed after a pain shot was recently awarded $6 million in damages by a Michigan jury.
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March 2nd, 2007
A Madison, Wisconsin jury has awarded $450,000 to a man who suffered serious injuries and disabilities as a result of a doctor's accident while he was being X-raye...
August 10th, 2006
Tuberculosis, one of the most common infectious illnesses in the world was responsible for almost two million deaths in 2004, according to the World Health Organization. Though common, TB goes unrecognized by many doctors in the U.S. who aren''t famili...
August 11th, 2004
The Public Citizen consumer group has issued corrections on statements President Bush has made during this year''s campaign trail. The corrections are in response to statements about the impact of medical malpractice lawsuits. The president of Public C...
Failure To Diagnose
A recent European study has found that more than four in ten heart attacks are not diagnosed when they occur. This risk of undiagnosed heart attacks is even greater for women than men. In fact, one-half of all heart attacks are undiagnosed in females a...
Birth Injury
May 6th, 2008
The parents of a brain damaged young boy have settled a birth injury lawsuit against the University of Virginia Medical Center for $1.35 million. At ...
Medical Malpractice
March 4th, 2004
Washington Gov. Gary Locke opposes $250,000 caps on noneconomic damage awards on Washington medical malpractice awards, finding them an attempt at arbitrarily deciding a lifetime pain and suffering award. States have been in debates over the medical ma...
Wrong Diagnosis
August 28th, 2007
A speedier but less accurate laboratory test for pertussis, commonly called "whooping cough," is responsible for false-positive test results in thousands of individuals, according to a recent report from epidemiologists with the U.S. Centers ...
Medical Malpractice
February 6th, 2006
A medical malpractice precedent has been set by a woman in Wisconsin who has been awarded $8.4 million in damages. Jessica Greenfield of Waupun, WI, suffered severe nerve damage from a surgery performed in 2000 to remedy acid reflux problem, leaving th...
March 3rd, 2004
Families frustrated with a Wisconsin medical malpractice loophole have sent representatives of the group Family Justice Network to speak out in supports of a bill in the State Senate. As Wisconsin law currently stands, parents are unable to sue for med...
Medical Malpractice Claims
October 21st, 2005
A new measure in Wisconsin state legislature would put limits on malpractice lawsuit awards, but it will most likely fail to pass due to unconstitutional elements. The law, put forth by Republicans in the state’s Supreme Court, is ver...
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
April 14th, 2006
A woman who claimed her gynecologist botched a surgery on her urethra was awarded $28 million by a jury Wednesday in a medical malpractice lawsuit filed against her doctor.
Jeanette Davis claimed her gynecologist Robert Bowles performed a fl...
Medical Malpractice
September 8th, 2006
A high rate of first-year medical residents reported violating hospital work limit rules designed to reduce medical mistakes linked to fatigue, researchers at Harvard Medical School found.
The study, published in the Journal of the America...
Doctor Mistakes
March 19th, 2008
A surgeon who removed the wrong kidney from a patient at a Minneapolis-area hospital has agreed to stop seeing patients while an investigation into the error is conducted.
Cancerous Kidney Left Behind
The incident occu...
Medical Malpractice
February 21st, 2004
The Wyoming House and Senate passed mirror bills that propose a constitutional amendment that could limit noneconomic damages in Wyoming medical malpractice lawsuits. Other states have passed similar medical malpractice lawsuits caps on noneconomic dam...
