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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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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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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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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