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Doctors Responsible for Man’s Death after Medication Error
Earlier this month, an Oregon man was awarded a $12.2 million verdict for the severe brain damage he suffered as a result of the doctor’s error in giving the man 18 times the necessary dose of medication. According to one local news source covering the case, the jury returned the verdict after a three-week… Read More »
Widow Receives $3.7 Million Jury Award After Five-Day Medical Malpractice Trial
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 under the care of the defendant at a hospital in Mount Vernon, Illinois. According to a local news article discussing the case, the patient died after suffering a massive pulmonary… Read More »
State Supreme Court Sides With Plaintiff and Allows Malpractice Claim to Proceed
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 plaintiff chose to have the defendant, an eye doctor, perform a routine and elective cataract removal surgery in his eye, after which he alleged that the defendant committed medical malpractice… Read More »
Partially Paralyzed Man Awarded $9.1 Million Jury Verdict in Lawsuit Against Negligent Anesthesiologist
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 jury after a trial earlier this month against the anesthesiologist who treated him leading up to and during the surgery. According to a local news source, the… Read More »
Court Affirms Verdict in Favor of Defendants in Birth Injury Case Despite Allegations of Juror Misconduct.
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 plaintiffs did not receive an award from the jury after a trial in the case of Labate v. Rutland Hospital, since the jury found that the… Read More »
Compensation Package Receives Final Approval in Severe Birth Injury Case
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 filed after the plaintiff’s son was born with cerebral palsy and severe disabilities as a result of the medical team’s negligence in handling the mother’s pregnancy and labor. The… Read More »
Commonly Used Heartburn Medicines Found to Increase Risk of Death in Hospital Patients
A study recently released by the University of Michigan has found that the inpatient use of drugs classified as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) to prevent gastrointestinal bleeding increases the risk of infection and death in patients treated with the medications. The drugs, which are usually used to treat heartburn by reducing stomach acid, are… Read More »
Burgeoning Obesity Rates Among Expectant Mothers Have Resulted in More C-Sections and an Increase in Birth Injuries
Recently reported statistics from a California study show that many mothers are receiving unnecessary cesarean sections when giving birth, and the data suggest that both infants and mothers are put at an increased risk of injury as a result. According to a public radio report discussing the study, the rate of cesarean births has… Read More »
Boy Suffers Brain Injury During Birth and Develops Cerebral Palsy
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 boy allegedly suffered a birth injury as a result of the negligent treatment of his mother and the circumstances surrounding his birth. In response to her… Read More »
Widow Sues Hospitals After Her Husband Was Incorrectly Declared Dead
A woman from upstate New York has filed a medical malpractice suit against two Buffalo hospitals, based on the circumstances surrounding the October 2014 death of her husband. According to a local news source, the man suffered an apparent heart attack while shopping with his wife and was rushed to a hospital, operated by… Read More »
