The New York Court of Appeals recently ruled that a third party may sue a doctor at a hospital that gave a pain medication to a patient who later caused an accident in which the third party was injured. According to documents in the case of Davis v. South Nassau…
Image from Baltimore Sun The man who has been long held to be the “maestro of medical malpractice torts,” Marvin Ellin, a retired Baltimore attorney, recently died as the result of a respiratory ailment on January 8th. Ellin was 92. Retired Maryland Court of Appeals Judge Joseph F. Murphy Jr.…
A man from Walnut, Iowa who had his leg amputated in 2012 has been awarded $90,000 in a medical malpractice suit last Thursday. Court records indicate that Tony Bailey had been seeking damages from Jennie Edmundson Hospital, Emergency Physicians of Western Iowa and Dr. Steven Feldhaus of Heart, Lung and…
It seems hard to believe that any doctor could be allowed to make the same malpractice mistake over and over again. However, that is exactly what one doctor is facing now that nearly 300 people have accused the cardiologist with implantation of pacemakers or defibrillators when they were medically unnecessary.…
In a rare instance in the state of Wisconsin, two large medical malpractice claims have been paid. The settlements came, however, after significant legal hurdles. In Wisconsin, because of laws that are designed to limit who can sue for malpractice and how much they can collect if their case is…
The attorneys for Dr. Abubakar Atiq Durrani have filed motions requesting that the hundreds of malpractice lawsuits filed against him be moved from Hamilton County to U.S. District Court. Dr. Durrani has been accused of having botched the spinal surgeries of more than 500 patients that were performed between 2007…
No doctor or medical professional wants to find him or herself the object of a medical malpractice lawsuit. However, even with the best of intentions and a commitment to the profession and art of medicine, it’s possible for anyone to have an off day or to make mistakes. Medscape recently…
An Atlanta psychiatrist has been arrested after 36 of his patients died. Twelve of those patients died as a result of overdosing on medication that he prescribed to them. According to the Clayton County District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson, Dr. Narendra Nagareddy’s office in Jonesboro was raided by DEA agents…
Medical malpractice is something that can happen anywhere in the world, as shown in today’s case. No matter where a patient and their family lives, there is a reasonable expectation toward a standard of care. When those standards are not met, medical malpractice can occur. In Pakistan, an enquiry report…
A patient in Cook County has filed a lawsuit against a podiatrist, alleging that the physician chose the wrong course of treatment, causing the man to suffer persistent pain and limited mobility as a result. According to documents filed in Cook County District Court that were filed on January 5th,…