An Illinois couple won a $14.3 million judgment against the state’s largest medical malpractice insurer. Alizabeth and Elvin Hana won a medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that ISMIE Mutual Insurance acted in bad faith. The judgment includes $1.35 million in compensatory damages, as well as $13 million in punitive damages against the medical malpractice insurer. An […]
A Wisconsin state senator drafted a medical malpractice bill that would allow parents of adult children to sue doctors for wrongful death. Wisconsin State Senator Nikiya Harris Dodd, D-Milwaukee, proposed a medical malpractice bill that would give parents of unmarried children up to 27 years old the right to pursue legal actions against doctors and […]
A South Dakota circuit court judge ruled that hospitals could be targeted for medical malpractice liability lawsuits if they employ doctors who have acted in bad faith. Judge Bruce Anderson also ruled that hospital committee members who grant privileges to doctors can also be sued under the state’s medical malpractice liability laws. The ruling allows […]
The Missouri State Supreme Court heard arguments this week to overturn the state’s laws on medical malpractice lawsuit award limits. The case involves a family who had been awarded nearly $11 million in damages, including $9 million in non-economic damages, in a 2013 wrongful death suit against a St. Louis hospital. A few months later, […]
A Buffalo, New York, resident filed a medical malpractice lawsuit after her husband was wrongfully declared dead. Tammy Cleveland claims in her medical malpractice lawsuit that her husband, Michael, suffered a heart attack in October 2014. The emergency room physician pronounced Mr. Cleveland dead minutes after his arrival. Mrs. Cleveland maintains that he was still […]
A Wisconsin man who lost his sister to medical malpractice is pursuing a bill that would require cameras in operating rooms. Wade Ayer of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, lost his sister, Julie Ayer Rubenzer, in 2003. He and the family sued a Florida doctor for medical malpractice when they learned that the anesthesiologist at her breast implant […]
An Ohio cardiologist who was the target of several medical malpractice lawsuits was convicted of performing unnecessary surgical procedures and overbilling Medicare and other insurers. A Cleveland jury convicted Dr. Harry Persaud of 13 counts of making false medical statements, as well as at least one count of health-care fraud and money laundering. The unnecessary […]
An article in the Annals of Internal Medicine cites numerous instances of unprofessional behavior in medical malpractice complaints. The article includes stories from medical students, residents and interns describing abusive, violent and sexual behavior among higher-level medical professionals. The spectrum of medical malpractice complaints run from an anesthesiologist who was accused of sexually assaulting female […]
A former University of Nevada-Las Vegas football player won a $4.2 million verdict in his medical malpractice lawsuit. The player, UNLV linebacker Beau Orth, alleged in his medical malpractice lawsuit that a Las Vegas neurosurgeon operated on the wrong disc in his spine. The jury concluded that the surgeon, Dr. Albert Capanna, acted negligently in […]
The Florida Supreme Court will hear a case involving a medical malpractice lawsuit that claims a woman’s doctor is responsible for her eventual suicide. The court will decide if the medical malpractice lawsuit against Dr. Joseph Chirillo should proceed. The suit claims that Dr. Chirillo failed to treat Jacqueline Granicz for depression prior to her […]