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Why Suing Your Hospital Keeps Everyone Safe

For the last 30 years, lawsuits and plaintiffs have gotten a bad rap. Frivolous or ridiculous-sounding lawsuits become punchlines—or worse, become justifications for why the court system ...

Newborn Left for Hours in ER Sustains Permanent Injuries, Hospital and Doctors Pays $11.3 Million

The family of a now seven year-old girl has been awarded $11 million on her behalf in a medical malpractice lawsuit that began 7 years ago when hospital doctors allowed her to wait for hours in an ...

Parents Win $55 Million Settlement for Son's Birth Injury

A family has been awarded $55 million to cover the expenses required to care for their son that was injured during his birth, nearly five years ago, when medical staff failed to see that he needed ...

Medical Malpractice Settlement Involving Misplaced Breathing Tube

As reported by the Lake Wylie Pilot a medical malpractice lawsuit has been settled and the family of a woman that died, due to two misplaced breathing tubes inserted during a routine out-patient ...

Participant in Medical Study Files Malpractice Suit Against ER Doctors

The Telegraph Herald has reported that a judge has denied a request to dismiss a medical malpractice lawsuit filed against Iowan physicians, that alleges that a medical study they conducted has left a ...

Five Unnecessary Surgeries on Female Patient Result in $2 Million Award

As reported by the Tampa Bay Times, a back surgeon must pay a $2 million settlement as ordered by an arbitration panel, to a patient that he subjected to five unnecessary surgeries within a ...

X Games Doctor Facing Malpractice

The medical director for the X Games is reportedly being accused of gross negligence and medical malpractice. According to reports, the man is being accused of helping at the scene of a snowmobile ...

MD Found Negligent in "Medicate, Medicate, Medicate" Regimen

The widow of a popular high school coach that committed suicide after being prescribed pain killers for more than ten years without visiting the prescribing doctor, has won a medical malpractice ...

Couple Wins $5 Million Award Due to Radiologist Misreading of CT Scan

As reported by Sea Coast Online, a Rockingham County jury has found a radiologist that failed to properly diagnose a woman's stroke, which caused her undue suffering and lingering injuries, ...

Botched Circumcision Leaves Boy with Painful Bleeding Fistulas, Requires Surgery

A four year-old boy that underwent a circumcision experienced excessive bleeding over several days, returned for further surgery, was over cauterized and is now facing further surgeries to correct, as ...

Woman Suing after Sister Commits Suicide at VA Hospital

A woman is suing the Hampton VA Medical Center for $5 million after her sister committed suicide at the hospital. According to reports, the sister allegedly died of a self-administered prescription ...

Woman's Stroke Found Due to Excessive "Arterial Punctures", Awarded Millions

As reported by the Truro Daily News from Nova Scotia, a woman that suffered a stroke in 1997 during a medical procedure has been awarded upwards of several million dollars that will help support her ...

Penis on Ice after Surgery for 19 Hours Instead of 3 = Amputation and Lawsuit

The federal government has been named in a medical malpractice lawsuit, due to the negligence of one of its Veterans Administration nurses that placed an ice pack on a man's penis for too many ...

Pittsburgh Hospital Sued: Former Med Tech Facing Drug Charges, Infected Patient with Hep C in Kansas

As reported by the Associated Press for Boston.com a woman is suing the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, UPMC, because she believes that she contracted hepatitis C at a Kansas hospital from a ...

Med Ctr., and Others, to Pay Nearly $8 Million For Failure to Properly Treat Child's Injury

The parents of a 12-year-old boy that was left with lifelong injuries due the improper care he received at a local medical center, as reported by the Dyersburg State Gazette, have been awarded $7.8 ...

Five Year Old Med Malpractice Case Seeks Jury and $50k in Damages

As reported by The Record for Madison, St. Clair County, a jury is being selected to hear a five-year old medical malpractice lawsuit, against an obstetrician-gynecologist that allegedly ...

Dentist Accused of Negligence

A dentist in the Sugar Land, Texas area has reportedly been accused of negligence in connection with a surgery. According to reports, the patient is suing the dentist for a botched dental ...

Widower Sues "Mommy Makeover" Doctors for Negligence

As reported by WOKV News, the Florida Times-Union, and others, a widower that witnessed his wife's collapse and death two days after a four-hour long elective surgery, is suing her doctors as they ...

Lawsuit Dismissed Over Medical Case

A man in jail who was suing over medical care has had his lawsuit dismissed. According to reports, the man was seeking more than $2 million for alleged poor medical care. He was allegedly shot in the ...

Former Plastic Surgeon Facing Malpractice

A former Orem, Utah plastic surgeon is reportedly facing medical malpractice allegations. According to reports, he was allegedly performing an abdominoplasty and liposuction procedure that left a ...

Medical Negligence Trial Underway

A medical negligence trial is reportedly getting underway in regard to a doctor who is accused of inadequate treatment. According to reports, the doctor is accused of not properly caring for a woman ...

Woman Wins $3.9M Malpractice Lawsuit

A woman has recently won a $3.9 million medical malpractice lawsuit against a former doctor. According to reports, the woman originally went to an emergency room with an intense headache and ...

Undetected Pulmonary Embolism Led to 46 Year Old Man's Death = Medical Malpractice

A widow has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit naming a health center negligent for their failure in diagnosing her husband’s pulmonary embolisms during an examination, which resulted in his ...

Inmate's Ignored Eye Injury Results in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

As reported by the Courthouse News Service, a former inmate has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit, citing damages for civil rights as well, due to the medical attention that was denied him following ...

Evidence All There in Medical Malpractice Case Citing Sexual Assault

A nurse has been charged with violating all standards of care, and the hospital he worked for is being held liable for his actions as their employee, in a medical malpractice lawsuit filed on behalf ...
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