A Bronx jury awarded about $120 million on Friday to a woman who was treated at three local hospitals in 2004 and has been incapacitated ever since. full story ![]()
A Cache Valley surgeon lost a malpractice suit this week in connection with the 2004 death of a Smithfield woman, whose family was awarded $1.389 million by a jury in 1st District Court.
hjnews.com (3 months and 13 days ago)
A Spokane jury awarded $813,000 this week to a woman whose foot was amputated following the wrong diagnosis by a local physician. It was the second time a jury heard Darlene Turner’s medical malpractice suit against now-retired Dr. Nathan Stime. The first action, in 2008, was declared a mistrial after jurors made what a judge perceived as racist comments against the woman’s...
spokesman.com (2 months and 23 days ago)
Gov. John Kitzhaber signed a bill today offering patients, doctors and hospitals an alternative to medical-malpractice lawsuits.
statesmanjournal.com (3 months and 2 days ago)

Nearly two years since the death of Clarence Clemons, otherwise known as "The Big Man" of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, Clemons' family will go to court over a malpractice suit against the late saxophonist's doctors...
spin.com (3 months and 13 days ago)
Leaders of the state Legislature's health committees plan to reintroduce a bill to make apologies by health care providers inadmissible in malpractice cases.
madison.com (3 months and 2 days ago)
A jury selected Monday will hear a medical malpractice case in which a pregnant woman suffered vision loss. Jonathan and Brooke Wood filed suit in October 2009 alleging Drs. Jolene Montano and Jennifer Bartley were negligent in their care during Brooke Wood’s pregnancy and delivery of a daughter in April 2008. The physicians have maintained they followed the proper standard...
chronicle.augusta.com (3 months and 16 days ago)

The ruling stems from the case of Kevin McLean, 16, of Jersey City, who died two years after being stabbed during a assault
nj.com (2 months and 23 days ago)
AKRON — A northeastern Ohio woman has filed a malpractice suit alleging that a clinic failed to successfully perform the abortion she sought, eventually leading to her child’s birth.
dispatch.com (2 months and 27 days ago)
We have met the enemy and it is us. The extraordinarily high cost of American health care has been blamed by policy experts on insurance companies, pharma, malpractice lawyers, hospitals, physicians, the government and the lifestyle/behavior of many Americans. Indeed, a recent public opinion survey shows that the public is willing to blame all of the above for the rising...
forbes.com (1 month and 18 days ago)
A federal jury has ordered the city of West Palm Beach to pay $102,490 to a 64-year-old woman who fractured her back and her ring finger in 2010 when two city police officers pushed her after being called to her home by her mentally retarded son.
palmbeachpost.com (3 months and 16 days ago)
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