Yearly Archives: 2014
Boy Born with Brain Damage Recovers 2.75 Million Euros in Birth Injury Suit
Twelve-year-old James McCarthy is not able to walk, talk, or sit up on his own due to his condition. Young James suffers from cerebral palsy as a result of a physician’s negligence at his birth. Sadly, the boy’s would-be twin brother died in the womb before birth. This prompted physicians to perform a C-section… Read More »
Court Affirms Inadmissibility of Informed Consent Documents in Medical Malpractice Case
The Virginia Supreme Court released a decision last month that affirmed a lower court’s decision to prevent a dentist’s proposed evidence from being heard by the jury in a Virginia medical malpractice case. In the decision in Fiorucci v. Chinn, released October 31, 2014, the Court ruled that both the informed consent documents signed… Read More »
Melissa Rivers Seeks Answers from Clinic that Performed Her Mother’s Final Medical Procedure
Earlier this year, legendary actress and comedienne Joan Rivers died as a result of a medical procedure called an endoscopy. In a recent news article by the New York Daily News, Rivers’ daughter, Melissa Rivers, has decided to file a multi-million dollar wrongful death suit against the clinic that performed the surgery leading to… Read More »
European Girl Settles Case with Hospital for 198K Euro for Delivery Error
Earlier last month in Ireland, a young girl and her family settled a malpractice suit with the hospital that delivered the girl. According to a report by one local news source, the girl suffered cuts to her face and eye as a result of improper and incompetent use of surgical forceps during the birthing… Read More »
Maryland Court Reverses Verdict Against Insurance Provider Under “Apparent Agency” Theory of Liability
In a decision that was filed earlier this year, the Maryland Supreme Court affirmed the Maryland Court of Appeals’ reversal of a jury verdict against a managed care organization (“MCO”) health insurance provider for the injuries suffered by the plaintiff after she had a foot surgery with a doctor whom she was referred to… Read More »
Florida Jury Awards Boy $8.4 Million in Birth Injury Suit
The parents of a five-year-old boy who was born with cerebral palsy recently filed a lawsuit against a hospital and a clinic that assisted in delivering the boy back in 2008. According to one news report, the boy allegedly suffered from a delayed delivery that required immediate resuscitation. It took hospital personnel eight minutes… Read More »
Jury Awards Child $1 Million in Illinois Birth Injury Lawsuit
Earlier this month in Maryville, Illinois, a jury awarded the mother of a young girl who was born with brachial plexus $1 million in a lawsuit against the doctors who assisted at the birth of the girl. According to a report by one local news source, the lawsuit’s main claim was that the delivering… Read More »
Maryland Court of Special Appeals Upholds $20.6 Million Birth-Injury Verdict
Back in July 2012, a Baltimore City Circuit Court jury awarded the family of a young boy born with cerebral palsy $20.6 million due to the negligent birthing procedures that were employed in the boy’s birth. A team of attorneys from Wais, Vogelstein, Forman, Koch & Norman represented the family throughout this process. According… Read More »
Breach in Texas Hospital Protocol Results in First Case of Ebola Virus Contracted in United States
A hospital in Texas reported last week that a worker contracted the Ebola virus after treating a patient in the hospital for the virus. The initial patient was from Liberia, West Africa, and was visiting his family in the United States when he first developed symptoms of the virus and was hospitalized at the… Read More »
Medical Malpractice May Have Contributed to Joan Rivers’s Death
The August 28, 2014 death of well-known comedienne Joan Rivers came as a surprise to people around the world. According to a CNN article, Ms. Rivers was undergoing an endoscopy procedure at an outpatient clinic in Manhattan when something went wrong in the surgery and she stopped breathing. After the emergency was recognized, Ms…. Read More »