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An Indiana man was recently awarded $4.25 million in damages in a medical malpractice case that began over 10 years ago, when he was paralyzed below the waist due to medical professionals’ failure to diagnose and treat an infection. The victim in this case, Robert Lehman, sought treatment at the Dunlap Urgent Care Center in 2005, after sustaining a […]

Following a month-long medical malpractice trial, a jury recently awarded $53 million to a young boy who suffered a hypoxic brain injury after physicians failed to recognize and treat fetal distress during his delivery. Tragically, cases like this occur all too often. The trajectory of events proceeds something like this: a mother enters the hospital, her […]

Bacterial infections can occur in hospitals for many reasons, including because of errors during surgery, misuse of medical tools, or defective medical devices. For example, a medical device manufacturer and a Pennsylvania hospital are facing multiple lawsuits after two patients contracted a bacterial infection following open-heart surgery, one of whom tragically died as a result. […]

In an interesting development in the field of medicine, medical malpractice insurers have begun combing through thousands of medical malpractice lawsuits from the past to identify common themes in these claims. By recognizing emerging similarities, doctors, hospitals, and medical facilities are better able to prepare for, prevent, and proactively address threats to patient safety. Today, […]

In a recent pharmaceutical product defect case involving pelvic mesh, a New Jersey Appellate Court upheld an $11.1 million verdict, affirmed the applicability of the failure to warn doctrine, and issued a decision that has far-reaching implications for pelvic mesh implant litigation both in New Jersey and nationwide. If you are in need of legal […]

A woman recently filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against an Iowa hospital after a catastrophic surgical error left her paralyzed, neurologically impaired, and in need of 24-hour care. The aforementioned case began in 2014, when 52-year-old Joyce Bohren sought treatment at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for hearing difficulties. Physicians soon identified two benign tumors, called meningiomas, […]

In a recent medical malpractice case filed in New York, a mother is seeking damages, claiming that the mismanagement of her labor led to a severe birth injury for her son, who sustained significant neurological damage after being deprived of oxygen. This case was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of […]

The trial is about to begin in a medical malpractice case involving a 26-year-old doctor who died after doctors allegedly failed to diagnose and treat the blood clot that ultimately claimed her life. How do Doctors Diagnose Blood Clots? Typically, blood clots in the brain can be detected through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and/or computed tomography (CT) […]

In a recent case out of Brooklyn, New York, a woman was awarded $5.1 million in damages after filing a medical malpractice lawsuit against two doctors, specifically a gastroenterologist and an anesthesiologist. The woman claimed to have contracted Hepatitis C as a result of cross-contamination during a routine colonoscopy. This case represents just one of […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has scheduled an International Health Regulations Emergency Committee to address the recent proliferation of Zika virus, which has been tentatively linked to birth defects in infants. Since the Zika virus outbreak, there has been a significant increase in the number of infants born with microcephaly, a rare condition that causes abnormally small […]