Legal and Malpractice Corner

Doctor Not Held Liable for Child's Necrotizing Pancreatitis When a 9-year-old boy ended up with a 4-month, $2.5 million hospital stay, his parents sued the doctor for not diagnosing his condition sooner.
News, July 25, 2023
Docs Misdiagnose Aneurysm and Patient Dies; Must Pay $29M Was this a case of "when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras?" The patient's presentation was unusual with nonspecific symptoms, plus he was young to have an aortic aneurysm.
News, June 19, 2023
Clinic to Pay $19 Mil to Family of Misdiagnosed Newborn A Wisconsin health system must pay millions to the family of a newborn baby for failing to diagnose meningitis.
News, May 08, 2023
Hospital Misdiagnoses Blood Clot as Sciatica; Must Pay Millions A blood clot was misdiagnosed as sciatica, which led to the loss of a leg and a huge malpractice verdict.
News, April 17, 2023
Doc Never Met Patient Who Died, but Negligence Suit Moves Forward An Illinois doctor who consulted with a patient's treating physician but never actually saw the patient himself can't escape a medical malpractice claim, a state appeals court ruled.
News, February 10, 2023
A Patient Named 'Settle' Decides to Sue Instead A West Virginia medical center is being sued by a man who claims that the hospital lied about removing his appendix.
News, January 19, 2023
Singer Is Paralyzed After Delay in Care; Hospital Must Pay A Texas hospital must pay a multimillion-dollar judgment for not treating woman's spinal injury in time; the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules in regard to the state's 2-year statute of limitations.
News, January 13, 2023
Physician Is Not Responsible for Baby's Death, Jury Decides; More An ob/gyn was cleared of liability when a paraplegic patient was unaware that she had had a baby, who died.
News, November 16, 2022
Jury Decides Against Hospital, Surgeon Who Died by Suicide; More Botched ankle surgery was alleged in suit; docs used permanent instead of temporary stitches; what's causing big personal injury payouts?
News, October 20, 2022
Clinic and Doc Must Pay Millions After Faulty Hernia Surgery A patient sustained a perforated bowel and other serious complications after a flawed hernia operation; also a patient’s sister claims lack of knowledge of morcellator risks.
News, September 22, 2022
Missed Diagnosis Leads to $111 Million Award for Damaged Leg Jurors award a record verdict to a patient after treatment of his broken leg goes wrong.
News, June 16, 2022
Anesthesiologist Is Punished for Standard of Care Lapses The Florida Board of Medicine fined and imposed other obligations on a physician accused of medical malpractice in the death of a patient.
News, May 24, 2022
Doctor Accused of 'Fraudulent Concealment' Can't Be Held Liable Claim against hospital is halted as well.
News, May 18, 2022
Doc Fails to Order Crucial Tests; Paralyzed Pt Wins $17M Jury cites failure to order crucial pre-op and post-op tests; provider-to-provider disputes not time sensitive, state high court says; paralyzed patient seeks millions.
News, April 13, 2022
Single, Childless Adults Worth Less Than Married With Children? Neurologist and ophthalmologist are both sued; game show star dies following colon surgery; wrongful-death law up for debate once again.
News, February 16, 2022
Doctor's Illegal Opioid Prescriptions Lead to 5 Deaths: Officials Alaskan family physician sentenced to 34 months in prison, probation; Texas hospital CEO and seven docs settle kickback allegations; practice administrator sentenced for fraudulent prescriptions.
News, January 26, 2022
Doc's Botched Surgery Leads to Incontinence and $10M Lawsuit Care departed from 'good and accepted medical practice,' jury says; troubled physician finally surrenders his license; delayed diagnosis prompts med-mal suit.
News, January 19, 2022
Pill Mill Psychiatrist Gets Prison; Must Forfeit Cash, Cars Doc gave undercover 'patients' unnecessary opioids; internist pleads guilty to unlawful prescriptions leading to patient's death; former pharma CEO charged with embezzlement; more.
News, December 20, 2021
Mistake: Doc Does Vasectomy Instead of Circumcision; More Appeals court tosses out one claim, retains another; jury exceeds state cap in infant head-trauma case; university's negligence caused them unnecessary suffering, women claim.
News, December 15, 2021
Neurologist Guilty of Overprescribing Thousands of Painkillers
News, November 22, 2021

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