Nebraska Family Receives $3.3 Million Settlement After Court Rules That Physicians’ Errors Led to Fatal Complications
A court in Nebraska awarded $3.365 million in damages to a plaintiff whose wife went into cardiac arrest several days after undergoing gastric bypass surgery and died several months later. The victim had seven children under the age of 18 at the time of her death. The patient underwent gastric bypass surgery in December […]
Michigan Court Awards $20 Million to Family of Woman Who Died After Unnecessary Brain Surgery, but Lawyer’s Actions During Appeal Process Prevent Family From Collecting Damages
A trial court in Michigan awarded $20 million in damages to the family of a woman who died after she underwent an invasive brain surgery she did not need; hospital staff confused her records with those of a patient suffering from an intracranial hemorrhage. It was an enormous award for an unambiguous error on the […]
Court Rules in Favor of Cardiologist Accused of Placing Unnecessary Cardiac Defibrillator
A court has issued a ruling in favor of the defendant in a medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff sought three million dollars in damages. The cardiology practice to which the doctor belonged and the hospital where the surgery took place were also named as defendants. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant caused him […]
Illinois Court Rules in Favor of Neurosurgeon Sued for Failure to Diagnose Cauda Equina Syndrome
A court in Illinois has returned a verdict in favor of the defendants in a medical malpractice lawsuit, namely a neurosurgeon who treated the plaintiff for a back injury and the hospital where the plaintiff received treatment. The plaintiff had also named his primary care physician in the original complaint, but the case against the […]
Family Receives Settlement After Child Suffers Complication From Group B Streptococcus Infection During Birth
A hospital in Georgia has agreed to pay a settlement to a family whose child suffers from disabilities resulting from exposure to Group B Streptococcus bacteria during birth. It has admitted negligence on the part of a physician who treated the mother in the emergency room and on the part of the obstetrician who saw […]
Appeals Court Upholds Ruling in Favor of Military Hospital Where New Mother Died from Postpartum Hemorrhage
A Coast Guard lieutenant whose wife died shortly after giving birth to their daughter in a military hospital will take his case to the United States Supreme Court after a federal court of appeals ruled that the Feres doctrine, which grants widespread protection against medical malpractice lawsuits to military hospitals treating active duty members of […]
One Expert Per Specialty Doctrine
In April 2018, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in favor of a family whose daughter underwent a kidney transplant at the age of 6. Her primary care pediatrician failed to diagnose the child’s kidney disease in time to halt its progression, resulting in the need for the transplant. The family took the physician to […]
Court Awards $18 Million to Woman Paralyzed as a Result of Misdiagnosed Spinal Abscess
A court in Chatham County, Georgia ruled that a hospital and a group of physicians must pay a total of $18 million to a patient who lost the use of her legs after an infectious disease specialist failed to diagnose or treat an infection that had spread to the woman’s spine soon enough to prevent […]
An Unexpected Verdict in an 11-Year Failure to Diagnose Case
A recent case involving a seemingly straight forward failure to diagnose actually resulted in a verdict in favor of the defense. A regular checkup of an elderly man included a prostate cancer screening test which revealed that his prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels were at an unhealthy level of 4.5, indicating the potential for cancer. The […]