A 4-year-old boy with cerebral palsy received a judge approved a $5.75 million settlement on his behalf. Cannon Hoops got $1.75 million up front and another $4 million in annuities that are expected to pay for his medical and assistive care as well as future lost earnings over the rest…
For a 15-year-old, or anybody else, Michael Blankenship had already been through a lot when he arrived at Seattle Children’s hospital for some routine dental work. What left him dead, was the painkiller-laced patch — meant to ameliorate chronic pain in cancer patients and others — that was prescribed to…
A WI Brown County jury awarded the survivors of a deceased farm worker $3.7 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit. Gustavo Espinal-Santos died Jan. 1, 2004, after contracting blastomycosis, a fungal infection often transmitted through water or soil. Espinal-Santos twice visited the Bellin Family Medical Center in Bonduel in December…
John Henry Howard, is brave — Howard sued an Atlanta men’s clinic after its erectile dysfunction therapy caused permanent damage to Howard’s penis. Before and during trial, Howard settled with two of the three named defendants. Boston Men’s Health Center Inc. was the defendant hit with the verdict. The jury…
The parents of an 18-year-old suburban Boca Raton cheerleader who died last year after breast augmentation surgery called for a ban on the use of general anesthesia at outpatient surgical centers. Such centers are not equipped to deal with emergencies such as the one that ultimately killed their daughter Stephanie,…
Surgical sponges left inside two Texas women — but undiscovered for years — will test state laws that place fairly strict time limits on suing doctors and hospitals for malpractice. One woman’s lawsuit was thrown out because the sponge, so grown over with fibrous tissue that it could not immediately…
A Brooklyn man brought to Maimonides Medical Center with chest pains in July 2008 endured what his family now calls a tragedy of errors that led to his death. Jacob Goldbrenner was sent to the Brooklyn hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab so doctors could treat his ailing heart. But they couldn’t…
After years of legal wrangling, a 12-year-old Eureka, Utah boy who suffered brain damage at birth is a step closer to getting money to help compensate for his injuries. The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled an insurance company cannot invalidate the medical malpractice policy of the obstetrician who made…
The state orders the medical centers to pay $25,000 each in administrative penalties for incidents that in some cases led to death or injury. Six Southern California hospitals have been fined $25,000 each in administrative penalties for serious violations that, in some cases, led to death or serious injury, according…
Plaintiffs attorneys say medi-spas, where the beauty-conscious go to lose their unwanted facial hair, acne scars and fine lines, are a new litigation hot spot as patients increasingly sue over spa treatments gone wrong. Laser hair removal in particular is triggering lawsuits, lawyers note, warning that even more litigation is…