Recent Posts in November, 2015

• Partially Paralyzed Man Awarded $9.1 Million Jury Verdict in Lawsuit Against Negligent Anesthesiologist

  Nov 18, 2015
  A 51-year-old Minnesota man who was left paralyzed from the waist down after a 2012 surgery to repair a perforated bowel was awarded $9.1 million by a ...
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• State Supreme Court Sides With Plaintiff and Allows Malpractice Claim to Proceed

  Nov 18, 2015
  In an opinion recently released by the Vermont Supreme Court, the court reversed the lower court’s decision to throw out a plaintiff’s case. The ...
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• Widow Receives $3.7 Million Jury Award After Five-Day Medical Malpractice Trial

  Nov 18, 2015
  A jury in Jefferson County, Illinois recently awarded $3.7 million in damages to a woman whose husband died in December 2009 while awaiting surgery ...
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• Commonly Used Heartburn Medicines Found to Increase Risk of Death in Hospital Patients

  Nov 18, 2015
  A study recently released by the University of Michigan has found that the inpatient use of drugs classified as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) to ...
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• Burgeoning Obesity Rates Among Expectant Mothers Have Resulted in More C-Sections and an Increase in Birth Injuries

  Nov 18, 2015
  Recently reported statistics from a California study show that many mothers are receiving unnecessary cesarean sections when giving birth, and the ...
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• Boy Suffers Brain Injury During Birth and Develops Cerebral Palsy

  Nov 18, 2015
  Recent developments have arisen in a case filed against doctors and a hospital after a woman gave birth to her son at the hospital in July 2005. The ...
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• Compensation Package Receives Final Approval in Severe Birth Injury Case

  Nov 18, 2015
  A mother has accepted, and the court approved, a settlement package offered by the defendant in a highly emotional birth injury case that had been ...
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• Court Affirms Verdict in Favor of Defendants in Birth Injury Case Despite Allegations of Juror Misconduct.

  Nov 18, 2015
  In a decision recently released by the Supreme Court of Vermont, a verdict in favor of the defendant in a birth injury case was upheld on appeal. The ...
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