Nursing homes are typically very busy places and are likely to get busier and more numerous as the baby boom generation ages and needs elder care. Although most medical professionals are caring and reliable, some are less so, whether for personal reasons, their own medical reasons, or because they handle the stress of overwork poorly. […]
West Virginia Doctor Discovered to Have 120 Malpractice Cases Pending
An osteopathic physician who lied on his application for a position at Putnam General Hospital (Putnam County, WV) five years ago, has over 120 medical malpractice lawsuits pending against him at the current time. Dr. John A. King, originally from Alabama, had gaps in his application, has been arrested, has left other positions abruptly, and […]
Case shows not all tragedies are medical malpractice
A jury decided that the death of a Boca Raton woman in childbirth in 2003 was “unpredictable” and “unpreventable,” and not the product of medical negligence, as a lawsuit charged. Although the woman was previously healthy, she was forced to have an emergency Caesarean when her water broke a month early and her baby was […]
Hospital Error Caused Chicago Boy’s CP
The family of a five-year-old Chicago boy was awarded $14 million after he suffered a severe brain injury during birth that resulted in him having cerebral palsy. Staff members at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago allegedly mixed up the boy’s heart rate with his mother’s pulse rate. Obstetrical malpractice is one of the most devastating […]
GM Settles Airbag Failure-to-Deploy Case
Pursuant to my previous blog enrty on the failure of air bags to deploy, General Motors settled a lawsuit brought against it over injuries she sustained in a 2003 crash in Texas when the air bags in her 1996 GMC Sonoma didn’t deploy. The lawsuit charged that the failure to deploy was not due to […]
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