Rice, 24, died in 2006, while in Denver City Jail, 20 hours after she was released from a hospital. She had suffered a lacerated spleen and liver and bled to death from injuries she received in a drunken-driving crash. The family of Emily Rice, who died while in custody at…
An Atlanta jury has awarded $5 million in damages to the family of a new mother who drowned in a bathtub at Gwinnett Medical Center. The lawsuit alleged that nurses should have checked on Wendy Wyckstandt, 34, and should have realized that she was too weak to shower without assistance.…
A Philadelphia jury awarded a $20.5 million verdict to the parents of an 18-year-old college student who died from a botched liposuction procedure. This case had been pending for seven years to the day of the elective liposuction for Amy Fledderman. The patient had liposuction for her chin, abdomen and…
A Tucson family was awarded $6 million in a lawsuit brought after a relative died of a morphine overdose. The judgment cost is to be paid 90 percent by operators of a nursing home, Manor Care Health Services, and 10 percent to be paid by Tucson Medical Center (TMC). Sylvia…
A West Virginia physician has filed a malpractice lawsuit against two other doctors and Thomas Memorial Hospital, alleging negligence and improper treatment when he needed abdominal surgery. In addition to the hospital, the lawsuit was filed against the doctors who treated him. Cunningham, a Charleston, WV gynecologist, was admitted to…
The Dallas VA Medical Center has effectively closed its psychiatric wing after a fourth mentally ill patient this year committed suicide. On April 4, a man fastened a bed sheet to the bottom corner of a door frame, draped a noose over the top, and hanged himself. Before that, a…
The voices in Jack Edenburn’s head began soon after he returned from Vietnam. They told him to end it all. He ignored them for almost 40 years, until the day he stood at the railroad tracks near his Lancaster home, fantasizing about stepping in front of a train. That’s the…
Pat Ahrens knew something was wrong. The night before, he had dropped his friend Chris Demopoulos off at a Plano motel, promising to return in the morning, but Ahrens wasn’t sure he had done the right thing. The two had met at the Dallas veterans’ hospital and had bonded over…