Blog Posts in June, 2010
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Posted on Jun 30, 2010
Mark S. Weinberger maintained an ear, nose and throat practice in Indiana, but is now facing more than 350 medical malpractice claims. However, in 2004 Weinberger went missing while vacationing in ...
Posted on Jun 30, 2010
A whopping 90 percent of surveyed doctors routinely overtest their patients in an effort to protect themselves from malpractice lawsuits. As we are slowly creeping toward the federal government ...
Posted on Jun 29, 2010
A judge is using the approach of listening and cajoling in resolving medical malpractice cases in hopes that this will become a model for courts around the country. Judge Douglas McKeon has invested ...
Posted on Jun 28, 2010
A woman in Orlando, Florida is alleging that she was infected with HIV after undergoing a botched kidney transplant. The woman is claiming that the hospital system was neglectful, while Lee Memorial ...
Posted on Jun 27, 2010
Two sisters in the Los Angeles area were arrested on suspicion of medical malpractice for allegedly running an illegal cosmetic fillers business. The police report that Guadalupe and Alejandra Viveros ...
Posted on Jun 26, 2010
A New York appellate court has ruled that a dental malpractice case can proceed against Dr. Hadley Bach of New York. The doctor had put forth a motion for summary dismissal of claims made by a former ...
Posted on Jun 25, 2010
A jury awarded a man and his wife $400,000 in damages for a medical malpractice case that involved a gall bladder surgery that went wrong. Allegedly, the doctor performed gall bladder surgery on the ...
Posted on Jun 24, 2010
The Obama administration is doling out nearly $25 million in grants for projects aimed at reducing medical malpractice lawsuits and costs. The grants are for demonstration projects designed to reduce ...
Posted on Jun 23, 2010
A Lasik surgeon has been found guilty of medical malpractice. He has been under investigation since 2008 for the surgeries he performed when he would fly into Las Vegas, perform dozens of surgeries in ...
Posted on Jun 22, 2010
A Glenview, Illinois medical malpractice lawsuit has five doctors being sued in regard to the wrongful death of a patient. Reportedly, David Timson went to Glenbrook Hospital after developing an ...
Posted on Jun 21, 2010
The highest court in Georgia has ruled that a cap on noneconomic damages is unconstitutional in medical malpractice cases. The Georgia Supreme Court believes that it violates the separation of court ...
Posted on Jun 20, 2010
Plevin & Gallucci has become a member of the Find a Medical Malpractice Attorney directory. We are pleased to inform you that Cleveland Medical Malpractice Lawyer, Plevin & Gallucci, has become a ...
Posted on Jun 20, 2010
A Kansas doctor is being accused of unlawfully prescribing Cephalon's Actiq painkiller among other drugs. The medical malpractice case says that these prescriptions led to the fatal overdoses of 56 ...
Posted on Jun 19, 2010
As face transplants are a complex surgical procedure, there is always a risk of medical malpractice. Patients who undergo these type of procedures show an increased rate of life-threatening ...
Posted on Jun 18, 2010
A Pennsylvania assembly-line worker had spinal surgery three years ago and, as a result, was left with a paralyzed lower right leg. After a six-day trial, she was then awarded $668,000 by a jury. The ...
Posted on Jun 17, 2010
In Virginia, Shannon E. Taylor was awarded $3 million in regard to a medical malpractice lawsuit. Her lawsuit involved injuries stemming from a hysterectomy she had in 2007. As a result of this ...
Posted on Jun 16, 2010
It has been reported that fewer than half of all medical malpractice settled by Connecticut insurers over the last four years resulted in payments to patients. Also, the average size of those payments ...
Posted on Jun 16, 2010
Kramen Law, LLC has become a member of the Find a Medical Malpractice Attorney directory. We are pleased to inform you that Horsham Medical Malpractice Lawyer, Kramen Law, LLC, has become a member of ...
Posted on Jun 15, 2010
The Florida Board of Medicine has fined the surgeon who removed a patient's healthy kidney instead of his gallbladder. The surgeon will also face other penalties including community service time. ...
Posted on Jun 14, 2010
A man in the Morristown, New Jersey area died outside of his home after he fell into unconsciousness. The doctors diagnosed that he suffered heatstroke, however his family believes that the death was ...
Posted on Jun 13, 2010
A Bermuda couple is planning on filing a medical malpractice lawsuit against a U.S hospital claiming that the doctors ignored FDA warnings. The woman had known kidney problems and the doctors still ...
Posted on Jun 12, 2010
A South Carolina medical malpractice lawsuit has ended with a jury giving $3 million in a verdict. The lawsuit involved a woman who was having stomach and back pains being diagnosed with a kidney ...
Posted on Jun 11, 2010
A New York hospital has been cleared in a medical malpractice lawsuit that involved a cancerous kidney transplant. The jury has sided with the medical provider saying that the hospital had done no ...
Posted on Jun 10, 2010
According to reports, a woman fell on a concrete floor at work and was then referred to a doctor for further treatment by her employer's third party worker's compensation administrator. However, the ...
Posted on Jun 9, 2010
A jury has awarded a mother and her brain-damaged child $23.3 million in their medical malpractice case. The plaintiffs contended that the mother had gone into prolonged labor and had other signs of ...
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