Posted on October 27th, 2009
A 9 year old boy has been awarded a $11.1 million verdict ina medical malpractice case brought against the All Children’s Hospital in TampaBay, Florida.
Attorneys argued that Daniel Smith suffered brain damageafter receiving improper care at the hospital in August 2000. Smith’s mothertook him into the hospital after he had been sick with vomiting and diarrhea.After a 4 ½ hour stay in the emergency center she was told that Daniel was fineto go home. The next morninghowever, Daniel could hardly breath and was rushed back to the hospital.
The hospital failed to properly check to see if Daniel wasdehydrated and did not follow proper procedures to treat him for dehydration.Attorney for smith Justin C. Leto said Daniel “suffered an irreversible braininjury.”
The hospital denies liability.
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Posted on October 23rd, 2009
A jury in Okalossa County, Florida, has awarded $4.25million to the family of a woman who died after giving birth at Fort WaltonBeach Medical Center.
Wendy Leigh Jackson died when an aneurism in a renal arteryruptured about 16 hours after she gave birth to a son named Chaffin. TheJackson family filed a medical malpractice/wrongful death lawsuit in 2006 thatclaimed that three doctors – Wyndal K. Blankenship, Barry Riggs, and SaadRahman – were aware that Jackson was bleeding in her kidney.
David Swanick, lawyer for the Jackson family, said “The caserevolved around an ultrasound that showed blood near a kidney that nobodyfollowed up on… sixteen hours later they got in there, and it was too late.”The jury found Blakenship and Rahman liable, Riggs was exonerated.
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Posted on October 23rd, 2009
U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, held a news conference withthe victims of medical errors to discuss medical malpractice awards caps.
Barley appeared at a Washington, D.C. American Associationof Justice event and called awards caps “unfair.” Braley claimed that incertain states where the cap hasn’t been adjusted for inflation, victims areleft in financial turmoil. He said it is “important to give another side of thestory and talk about the real human cost of medical errors.”
Republicans have been calling for president Obama to includelawsuit reform in his health-care proposals. Barley was critical of thispressure, he maintained that the “best way to reduce the cost of medicalmalpractice claims is to reduce medical errors.”
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Posted on October 20th, 2009
A class action lawsuit has been filed in Los AngelesSuperior Court against the Cedars Sinai Medical Center, GE Healthcare Inc. andGE Healthcare Technologies on behalf of patients who received eight-times theapproved dosage of radiation during CT brain perfusion scans.
The lawsuit includes all individuals who received a CT brainperfusion scan at the hospital between February 2008 and August 2009. BillNewkirk, who represents the plaintiffs in the case said of the CT scans “Theamount of radiation during a single CT scan can range from 1,000 to 10,000millirems, depending on the machine and the machines settings… [a] study saysJapanese survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who were a mile ortwo from ground zero received about 3,000 millirems on average.”
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Posted on October 13th, 2009
A Schenectady jury has awarded a family $43 million in amedical malpractice lawsuit. The ruling Thursday found Bellevue Hospital liablefor the birth of Tiffany Busone, a 25 year-old who now suffers from cerebralpalsy due to a lack of proper resuscitation at birth.
The family settled out of court with the doctor involved inthe delivery in 1990. This case, against Bellevue, has been in and out of courtsince 1991.
The lawyer for Busone’s family, Steve Coffey, says the caseis an extremely unusual one. The length of time it took to get a verdict to theaward ruling on Thursday was quite out of the ordinary.
“I can tell you I’ve never seen a verdict of this size.” saidCoffey. “You don’t get verdicts of this size and it’s a vindication in a senseof a mother fighting for her daughter all these years.”
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Posted on October 13th, 2009
A jury in North Bay, Ontario has awarded a family more than$1 million following a medical malpractice. The family of Ronald Hotte filedsuit against a registered nurse at North Bay and District Hospital.
The family’s lawyer said in a release that a six personjury, deliberating for less than four hours, found that the registered nursefailed to administer a blood thinner to Hotte who died at the hospital May 8,2003.
The release explained “the blood thinner had been ordered bythe surgeon who performed Hotte’s abdominal surgery on May 3, 2003…Five dayslater, Hotte died of a pulmonary embolism caused by a blood clot that dislodgedfrom the deep veins in his leg and travelled to his lungs.”
The jury awarded the Hotte family $778,000 in damages, andSuperior Court Justice Norman Karam awarded the family another $276,000 forlegal costs.
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Posted on October 12th, 2009
A 31-year-old man from England has died after receiving cancerous lungs in a transplant operation. Matthew Millington mistakenly received the organs from a donor who is believed to have smoked between 30 and 50 cigarettes a day.
Steven Tsui, clinical director of transplant services at the Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, told the North Stafford Coroner’s Court “there were a number of failures. I didn’t feel the team performed to the standard I would expect.”
A lack of communication between radiographers and consultants caused a tumor to go two years without being detected. It’s growth was accelerated by the immunosuppressive drugs Millington was taking to prevent his body from rejecting the organ.
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Posted on October 5th, 2009
The family of a Hollywood man has been awarded a $14 million medical malpractice verdict against a doctor who accidentally punctured the man’s artery during surgery, leaving the man paralyzed and bedridden.
Francis Ziadie was 46 when he first went to Memorial Regional Hospital with slurred speech and dizziness following a stroke. His symptoms subsided when doctors gave him drugs to remove the blood clot that had caused the stroke. According to Crane Johnstone, attorney for the Ziadie family, says that radiologist Dr. Hoang Dinh Doung then surgically inserted a mesh stent to prop open Ziadie’s carotid artery to improve blood flow. But Doung punctured a blood vessel causing heavy bleeding into Ziadie’s brain. Ziadie now needs constant care from his elderly mother.
The jury found Doung negligent, but determined that the operating surgeon, Dr. David Feldbaum, was not responsible for Ziadie’s death.
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Posted on October 5th, 2009
A Texas hospital and physician claim they have been wrongly named in a medical-malpractice suit and are asking appellate justices toreverse a lower court’s ruling denying their motion to dismiss.
The family of the late Laura Sebile filed suit against the Memorial Hermann Baptist Beaumont Hospital, two doctors, and an anesthesiologist, claiming her death was a result of their negligence. The lawsuit claims that Sebile, who was 70 years-old and morbidly obese, died after doctors performed “unnecessary heart surgery.”
The hospital and Dr. Juan Gonzalez, the anesthesiologist, objected to the plaintiff’s allegations calling the accusations vague and broad. Saying that the plaintiff’s allegations “never articulate how (Dr.Gonzalez’s) alleged negligence caused Mrs. Sebile’s death.”
Gonzalez and the hospital both claim that Sebile’s death “can be traced to the surgical complication” she suffered when a surgeon punctured her heart.
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Posted on October 5th, 2009
A Green Bay jury has awarded the family of a deceased farmworker $3.7 million Friday in a medical malpractice lawsuit. GustavoEspinal-Santos died January 1, 2004, after contracting a fungal infectioncalled blastomycosis.
Espinal-Santos visited Bellin Family Medical Center inBonduel twice in December 2003 complaining of illness. He was seen by physicianassistants who determined that he had pneumonia. The lawsuit claimed that thephysicians failed to run basic diagnostic tests, specifically X-rays. When Espinal-Santoswas admitted to St. Vincent Hospital on December 23, 2003, he was diagnosedwith blastomycosis, but it was too late to save his life.
After a four-day trial and almost eight hours ofdeliberation, the jury found Bellin Health System and supervising physician Dr.Peri Aldrich negligent. Attorneys for the Espinal-Santos family said the awardwill be reduced due to award caps in Wisconsin law.
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