This week, the Missouri Supreme Court heard a case from a family that wants to challenge the state law limiting the amount of damages they can receive after the mother of the family died following heart surgery. In February 2011, Dodson went to Mercy Hospital to undergo a “routine catheterization”…
An attorney who was accused of giving a client substandard advice during the client’s divorce case has now been told she is not allowed to use her communication with the client to write off a malpractice action that was brought against her. The ruling by Judge John C. Gemmill is…
A jury in Coles County has awarded damages to a woman who claims that she was injured during a surgical procedure at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center seven years ago. The lawsuit filed by Cheryl Long, who sued the hospital in 2013. Her lawsuit claimed her trachea was injured when…
A widow has initiated a lawsuit against two Buffalo-area hospitals after the death of her husband. According to court documents filed in Monroe County,. Tammy Cleveland says her husband, Michael, was still alive when an emergency room doctor declared him dead last year. Cleveland claims in her suit that if…
A medical malpractice lawsuit has been brought by a Colinsville, IL couple against an area hospital and a medical supply company in what they claim was a botched hip surgery. According to court documents filed in Madison County Circuit Court on September 19th, Ronald and Stella Vivoid have filed their…
A malpractice lawsuit has been filed by a Cook County patient against her health care providers alleging malpractice. Cook County court documents indicate that Jane Filip filed a lawsuit on September 16 in Cook County Circuit Court naming Dr. Scott Glaser, Pain Specialists of Greater Chicago, Dr. Anthony DiGianfilippo, West…
A jury has sided with the defendant in a dental malpractice trial, Lacalamita v. Magid, that took place this week in Kings County Civil Court. In the court documents, the plaintiff, Jeanine Lacalamita suffered from severe headaches, vertigo and dizziness before visiting the offices of dentist Michelle Magid, DDS, in May…
A Jefferson County jury has awarded the plaintiff in a medical malpractice suit the sum of $3.7 million. This may be the largest settlement that has ever been granted in the county in such a lawsuit. The plaintiff, Marie Clayton alleged both wrongful death and medical malpractice for her husband,…
A Texas physician is currently looking at a potential decade in jail and having to pay $2 million in fines after a recent lawsuit. According to court records, Robert Hadley Gross, MD, a licensed psychiatrist based out of San Angelo, Texas, has pleaded guilty last week to one count of…
A patient has filed a malpractice lawsuit against a doctor and two related health care businesses following a cervical spine surgery. Rita Vazquez filed a lawsuit last month on September 21 in Cook County Circuit Court, Law Division. The lawsuit names Dr. Michel H. Malek, the Illinois Spine Institute and…