New Jersey Medical Malpractice Verdict Due To Hospital Negligence
A 42-year-old mother of five went to a local New Jersey hospital in 2004 with a low sodium level (hyponatremia) that was a chronic condition for her. The treatment rendered by the hospital resulted in...
View ArticleHospital Medical Malpractice Claims Versus Outpatient Medical Malpractice Claims
In a published study last year, researchers found that the number of paid medical malpractice claims involving outpatient medical care in 2009 were more than the number of paid medical malpractice...
View ArticleFlorida Medical Malpractice Claim For Death Due To Wrong Medication
A 79-year-old dialysis patient in Florida experienced shortness of breath after a dialysis session. He was admitted into the intensive care unit of a local hospital for treatment. The next day, he was...
View ArticleCalifornia Hospital Malpractice Results In Suffocation Death — And $100,000 Fine
According to California health regulators, the long-term nursing unit of a California hospital was responsible for the negligent medical treatment and death of an 81-year-old woman in June, 2011, who...
View ArticleNew York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Gallbladder Surgery...
In 2008, a 60-year-old Korean immigrant who was the primary caregiver for his mentally ill adult daughter was admitted into a New York hospital for surgery to remove his inflamed gallbladder due to...
View ArticleKentucky Medical Malpractice Jury Awards Man’s Estate $1.45 Million, After 13...
Back in 1999, a paraplegic man went to a local Kentucky hospital’s emergency room, complaining of abdominal pain along with vomiting and constipation that were treated with an enema and pain...
View ArticleFlorida Legislature Passes Bill To Pay Medical Malpractice Verdict
Back in 2007, a Florida medical malpractice jury awarded almost $31 million to a child and his parents for the child’s birth injuries that included cerebral palsy and other serious injuries that the...
View ArticleFlorida Medical Malpractice Lawsuit For Infant’s Finger Severed In A Hospital
In October, 2011, a 15-year-old mother brought her then 3-month-old daughter to a local Florida hospital when her daughter spiked a fever and had bronchitis. The little girl was hospitalized for three...
View ArticleIs This Medical Malpractice? When A Good Deed Results In Death
One of the saddest stories we recently heard regarding a possible medical malpractice incident occurred in May, 2010 in the operating room of a major transplant hospital in the United States when a...
View ArticleTexas Medical Malpractice Claim Based On Surgeon’s Disability
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...
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