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A Texas jury awarded $10 million to a man who became a multiple amputee after being given the blood thinner, heparin, at Methodist Hospital. The medical malpractice lawsuit alleged that the hospital and several of its doctors were negligent in not observing his condition after being given the drug which led to gangrene and the necessity of amputating several body parts.
→ Read MoreA nurse at Broward General Hospital in Fort Lauderdale may have contaminated over 1,850 patients by using the same IV bag for different purposes. How something like this could occur in this day and age is almost unfathomable. The nurse’s negligence has the potential to injure thousands of people who expected competent care and medical malpractice lawsuits against the hospital are likely.
→ Read MoreTwo teenage sisters were awarded $11 million in damages after a jury found that their pediatrician and her medical group were negligent in taking the proper steps to investigate the girls sexual assault by their step brother.
→ Read MoreA New York jury has awarded a Bronx man $19.2 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit after doctors at Montefiore Medical Center failed to diagnose a spinal cord infection which led to permanent paralysis. The doctors’ and the hospital’s negligence was blatant’ and the plaintiff’s lawyer has said that the man’s injuries might have been avoided had an MRI or CAT scan been done sooner.
→ Read MoreAn Illinois jury awarded a woman $5 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit when her doctor performed an unnecessary hysterectomy at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital after the birth of her first child’ thereby preventing her from having more children.
→ Read MoreA 68 year old woman from Chicago Illinois was awarded $7.8 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit after emergency room medical staff at the Swedish Covenant Medical Center failed to diagnose her meningitis. She now suffers from severe mental and physical injuries.
→ Read MoreA Minnesota jury awarded a multiple sclerosis patient $10 million after a medical resident mistakenly injected a drug into his spine that caused him severe injuries including seizures and neurological damage and required him to undergo further painful surgery. Five of the ten million dollar award comprised damages for his pain and suffering.
→ Read MoreA Tennessee jury awarded $24 million to a woman whose breast cancer was misdiagnosed. Although she went to her doctor after discovering a lump on her breast, the doctor failed to perform the proper testing and misdiagnosed her cancer. It is thought to be one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts in Tennessee.
→ Read MoreThe family of a young woman who died after a doctor failed to read the results of an MRI settled an Illinois medical malpractice lawsuit for $5.3 million. While her husband and now six year old son are pleased with the Illinois medical malpractice settlement, they’ like many others who have unnecessarily lost a loved one’ wonder what would have been had the doctor acted responsibly.
→ Read MoreSince 2006, Washington State has required anyone filing a medical malpractice lawsuit to first obtain a Certificate of Merit’ which is basically a statement from a medical expert saying that the lawsuit has merit. However, injured victims said that actually getting the certificate was nearly impossible and denied them access to the courts. The Washington State Supreme Court recently agreed and has ruled that the law is unconstitutional.
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