Recent Posts in Hospital Error Category
Posted on Apr 16, 2012
The Chicago Sun Times has reported that a medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed against Northwestern Memorial Hospital for using the wrong green dye during a patient's angiogram. According to ...
Posted on Mar 29, 2012
In a medical malpractice case, a woman that was seeking migraine relief endured an unnecessary angiogram that caused a stroke, and left her without the use of her arms and legs. In a Menlo County ...
Posted on Apr 25, 2011
A hospital mix-up, involving newborns, caused one mother severe anguish upon learning that her baby was breast fed by a stranger, as reported by the New York Post. L.W., 33, of Brooklyn, claims that ...
Posted on Nov 11, 2010
David E. Woodward Sr., 87, will be paid a settlement of $250,000 by the federal government due to the negligent treatment that allegedly resulted in his blindness in the Palo Alto veterans hospital, ...
Posted on Oct 7, 2010
The News Gazette in East Central Illinois has reported that a settlement of $12 million - that just might be the largest in history for Champaign County - was made out of court for the family of a ...
Posted on Sep 29, 2010
On September 21, Hawaii News Now reported that the Tripler Army Medical Center has settled a claim with the McCraw family to compensate for their child's permanent disability. Kayla McCraw, now four ...
Posted on Sep 22, 2010
CBS 4 News in Miami is reporting that a mother from South Florida has sued the South Miami Hospital, and a surgeon on their staff, because her baby boy was circumcised without her consent. Spencer ...
Posted on Aug 16, 2010
The Swanson family began a medical malpractice suit against Westchester Hospital four years ago as they allege the staff is responsible in an ill-fated delivery of their son on October 23, 2003. A ...
Posted on Aug 11, 2010
An almost six-hour wait in an emergency room is alleged to be the cause for the premature death of 25-year-old graduate student, Martha Barr, as reported by The Register Guard and KVAL News. Thom and ...
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 Dec 14, 2009
Recently, one hospital in Alabama and three hospitals in Los Angeles, California have been reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for over-exposing 270 patients to radiation through CT ...
Posted on Nov 19, 2009
In California, it is being reported that a baby's body was finally found after it had been missing for six days. According to sources, the baby was 20 weeks premature and had been delivered at Kaiser ...