medical (healthcare) malpractice

Amy Bright, pictured here at Naval Hospital Jacksonville, Fla., with her newborn son Jacob in 2003, was recently told that there is a broken-off needle embedded in her spine. She has filed a claim alleging malpractice, contending the needle broke off 14 years ago during spinal anesthesia, but medical ...

Jury awards family more than $47 million in Conemaugh malpractice case ... JOHNSTOWN — After a two-day trial and a surprise ruling by a judge that decided a portion of the case, a federal jury ordered Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center and Dr. John Chan to pay a Texas couple more than $47 million in damages for ...

A divided Florida Supreme Court on Thursday sided with the family of a child who had to undergo a kidney transplant in a medical-malpractice case ... The Supreme Court concluded that pathologists Victor Pardo and Philip Ruiz testified as treating physicians and not as expert witnesses, a key distinction.

The family of a Texas child who sustained lasting scalp injuries days after she was born at Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center in 2012 was awarded more than $47 million in a medical malpractice case Thursday. Jurors awarded the total – an apparent Pennsylvania federal court record – following a ...

While many drivers of medical malpractice claims have seen decreases over the years, diagnosis-related claims have not, said Robert Hanscom, an author of the report and vice ... The analysis highlighted several times in the diagnostic process when physicians are vulnerable to making mistakes.

Allegations in medical malpractice claims against nurse practitioners don't differ radically from those made against primary care physicians. ... With projections that by 2025 NPs will represent almost one-third of the family practice workforce, hospitals and physician practices would be smart to understand ...

“I was sitting at home, and all of a sudden I had this God-awful pain that wouldn't go away,” he told us. The pain was so bad that at the time, I thought someone had stabbed me!” His wife and oldest son brought him to the nearest emergency room, where medical professionals examined him, gave him ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Senate approved an omnibus medical tort-reform measure yesterday that would regulate everything from trial attorney fees, medical record copying charges and which malpractice lawsuits can advance in the courts. Among its many provisions, Senate Bill 20 would require medical ...

The state Medical Malpractice Act capped damage awards to patients at $500,000 in the early 1990s, and the cap has never been adjusted for inflation. ... Future medical expenses ordered by treating physicians–like handicap-accessible vans, electric wheelchairs and prescriptions–are not included under ...

Bill sponsor Ralph Alvarado, a physician, says it's not a medical provider protection bill, but offers benefit to those filing civil suits. “The lawyers will run up the cost. They'll take a big chunk of that, 48 to 50 percent and the person that's been wronged is left with a congratulations, you won, but you only got a ...

Mercy Hospital will have 26 years to pay out more than $12.8 million in a medical malpractice judgment originally awarded by a Franklin County jury last fall, when Vincent Lowe, 55, Union, was ... The largest sum of $9,450,000 in future medical damages will be paid to Lowe in periodic installments as well.

A Beaufort County man whose wife underwent major back and spinal surgery and died less than a year later has sued a local doctor claiming the physician's negligence contributed to his wife's decline in health. The medical malpractice suit, filed Feb. 19 in the Beaufort County Court of Common Pleas by ...

I was speaking to an attorney friend who lives in Indianapolis the other day and he told me that he was looking for medical malpractice clients. I was confused because almost no lawyers have taken those cases on in Indiana. The reason for that is that Indiana has severe damage caps. At last check the most you could get on ...

The reasoning behind the law is to limit medical malpractice damages so as not to encourage health care providers and their insurers to leave the state. ... The lawsuit stems from Alex's Oct. 5, 2005, birth at city-owned Memorial Hospital where physician Peter Bianco “negligently used a vacuum extraction ...

Medical errors are the third-leading cause of death in the United States after heart disease and cancer, causing more than 250,000 deaths per year, according to the U.S. News. Even when medical malpractice does not result in death, victims are often left with debilitating, life-altering conditions that greatly ...

Medical malpractice coverage is among the highest financial costs of practicing medicine. There are a few issues that doctors need to consider when selecting or accepting medical malpractice coverage. Whether you're considering working as a self-employed physician and paying for your own medical ...

In 1980, he won a landmark state court ruling that allows people to sue physicians for malpractice even when medical errors don't come to light until long ... “Mike knows as much medicine as a lot of doctors do,” said Joan Lukey, a prominent trial lawyer at Choate Hall & Stewart LLP in Boston and a former ...

Ralph Alvarado, the bill's lead sponsor, said the changes would bring Kentucky's system in line with malpractice laws in many other states. "We're just trying to get with the times," said Alvarado, a Winchester doctor. In opposing the bill, Democratic Sen. Reginald Thomas of Lexington said the changes could ...

Medical Malpractice Defense columnist John L.A. Lyddane writes: The notice to admit will remain as a tool among others to be used in preparing the .... in a medical facility in another jurisdiction and that facility has been merged into obscurity by the relentless appetite of corporate medicine, it may be difficult ...

My family is dealing with a medical situation that has everyone pretty upset. It involves my grandfather. He isn't helping himself as much as he could be, and that's really stressful for us. However, what really bothers most of us is that we feel like his current primary doctor is not doing 100% of his job.