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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 of his life. The money was awarded by the University of California Board of Regents as a result of injuries the boy suffered when he was born in the UC Davis Medical Center.
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 Blankenship.
Discharged to his mother’s home the day of the March 9 tooth extraction, Blankenship was found dead in his bed the following morning. According to a civil suit filed earlier this month in King County Superior Court, a medical examiner found Blankenship had died from a drug overdose caused by the fentanyl patch.
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 2003 complaining of illness. Espinal-Santos was seen by physician assistants who determined he had pneumonia. He said they failed to run basic diagnostic tests, specifically X-rays.
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 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, both Joanne and Thomas Kuleba said during a news conference.
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 be identified, wasn’t found for nine years, long after the two-year statute of limitations had expired.
The second woman’s lawsuit survived, however, despite an 11-year gap between her hysterectomy and the sponge’s discovery during exploratory surgery in 2006.
Both cases are before the Texas Supreme Court, which will decide whether their legal challenges should continue.
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 find the key to the lab.
They couldn’t locate an anesthesiologist. And then one doctor couldn’t even find the lab itself, according to a lawsuit filed last week in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
Minutes turned to hours as the 52-year-old clothing salesman’s condition worsened.
“We all felt a sense of desperation and frustration,” said Baruch Goldbrenner, 27, who watched his father’s health deteriorate.
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 a failed attempt to deliver the boy with forceps. Under that decision, The Doctors’ Company (TDC), an insurance company based in Napa, Calif., remains responsible for an almost $1.3 million jury verdict in favor of Athan Montgomery. With interest, the total could top $2 million.
The insurer has argued for years that it should be excused from defending the doctor or paying any judgment on his behalf.
David Biggs, an attorney who represents Athan and his family, said: “We are pleased beyond measure that finally, this young child, now a young man, might be compensated for the medical malpractice that took place so many years ago.”
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 to state Department of Public Health officials.
Children’s Hospital of Orange County was fined because its nursing staff failed to ensure appropriate drainage after a child’s neurological procedure in November, an oversight that led to severe brain injury.
Dr. Maria Minon, the hospital’s chief medical officer, said the hospital “very much” regrets the incident and has adjusted protocols for patient care, increased staff training and added layers of checks and balances to minimize the chance of it occurring again.
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 on the horizon as the number of medical spas has soared.
According to the International SPA Association, which represents 3,200 spas globally, medical spas are the fastest growing segment of the spa industry and have quadrupled in numbers in recent years, from 471 in 2004 to 1,804 today.
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