Leanna Loud, 47, a nurse, wife and mother of three was awarded $7 million verdict by a jury after a doctor misdiagnosed her condition as being benign. Loud’s doctor failed to adhere to a “degree of care and skill ordinarily exercised by medical care providers.” Because of the misdiagnosis, Loud’s…
The VA, or U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs, employs close to 19,000 doctors and operates 152 hospitals. In the last dozen years, the VA has paid out approximately $100 million per year to settle veterans’ medical malpractice claims. In the ten years following the attacks of 9/11, the VA paid…
Northwest Community Hospital has reached a $5 million settlement with a woman and her family who alleged that the treatment she received at the Arlington Heights hospital left her with brain damage. Urmila Patel, 64, and her husband will receive the settlement as approved by Cook County Judge James N.…
HOUSTON, TX – Medical malpractice lawyers are used to hearing that their claims are frivolous. Lawyers are used to these types of comments, yet they go on fighting for their clients anyway. It’s their job. One attorney in Houston, Texas is fighting back, if only in words. Kay Van Wey…
Medical errors are now the third leading cause of death in the United States and are responsible for the deaths of more than 400,000 people each year. That is according to the Journal of Patient Safety (September 2013 – Volume 9 – Issue 3 – p 122-128). Even with those statistics, there…
It isn’t hard to imagine that as we get older, we take more medication. In fact, a recent study found that 40 percent of seniors over the age of 65 take five or more medications daily. Even more take at least one prescription medication every day. Unfortunately, it was discovered…
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…
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…