Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and Baxter Healthcare Services were ordered to pay a combined $500 million in punitive damages to a Nevada man who contracted Hepatitis C during an outbreak two years ago. The Clark County District Court jury in Nevada ordered Teva to pay $356 million and Baxter to pay…
For almost 20 years, federal law has required hospitals and medical boards to report doctors they discipline — for medical incompetence, unprofessional conduct, and substandard care to the National Practitioner Data Bank. It was designed to protect the public from bad doctors, particularly those who move to another hospital or…
The Texas Medical Board finally has taken away Dr. William Olmsted’s license. Olmsted made headlines last year after the board let him keep practicing even though a Dallas County judge had put him on probation for molesting a girl. The child psychiatrist was ordered to start treating men only, to…
An Arlington airman lost his legs in a botched gallbladder surgery at a military hospital in California. Colton Read had been having stomach problems while stationed at Beale Air Force Base near Sacramento, Calif. He agreed to have laparoscopic gallbladder surgery. During the procedure, an instrument being threaded through his…
Robert Eglet’s client, is infected with hepatitis C, and his Las Vegas law firm going head to head with one of the largest drugmakers in the world and its international law firm. It’s a battle that began more than two years ago after local health officials announced a hepatitis C…
When a doctor at Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles called in 2007 to tell Eduardo Rivas that his 6-month-old son needed surgery to repair double hernias, Rivas was not sure what he should do. Nathan had been born four months premature. His mother, Rivas’ wife, had died of breast cancer…
A record $5.2 million cash settlement for malpractice and mandated changes in procedure at Albany Medical Center Hospital have not brought closure to family members who watched Diane Rizk McCabe, 32, of Rotterdam, bleed to death over the course of 15 hours following a mishandled Caesarean section delivery of her…
Michael Jackson’s doctor is “hanging on by a thread” and must be allowed to continue practicing medicine in order to pay for his defense on a manslaughter charge in the pop star’s death, the physician’s lawyers said in court papers. Responding to a bid by the California attorney general to…
Debbie Stockton didn’t know her obstetrician was a drug addict when her son William was born in 1989 with extensive nerve damage to his left arm. But when the boy grew into a teenager and his atrophied arm didn’t improve, Stockton sought legal advice and learned that Dr. Howard Offenbach…
A Suffolk County jury found a Randolph doctor was negligent in the death of a college basketball player and awarded more than $2 million to the parents of Antwoine Key, who died in 2005 during a game in Worcester. Dr. Dorina R. Abdulah had examined Key, a 22 year-old student…