Posted on February 26th, 2010
A couple in Riverside, California have been awarded a $16.5 million verdict in a medical malpractice case brought against a Palm Springs neurosurgeon.
Following an eight-hour deliberation Friday, a Riverside Superior Court jury found neurosurgeon Christopher Pham negligent in his treatment of Trent Huges in november 2003.
Hughes was injured while off-roading in an all terrain vehicle in 2003. Following the accident, Hughes was transported via helicopter to the Desert Regional Medical Center where Pham was on call.
Hughes had a fractured spine, but was not seen by a doctor until the next day. He was not operated on for another two days. The resulting injuries left Hughes a paraplegic.
The $16.5 million verdict is compensation for past and future lost earnings, medical costs, and damages for pain and suffering.
If you or someone you love has been the victim of Philadelphia medical malpractice or negligence, please contact the experienced Philadelphia medical malpractice lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. to learn more about the legal options available to injured patients. Please call 215-238-1130 today.
Posted on February 26th, 2010
The family of a Texas man who died after an angioplasty procedure has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the hospital where he was treated.
In 2002 Santos Salinas was ordered an angiogram at Valley Baptist Medical Center. The test was suposed to examine Salinas' blood vessels. Instead, the family alleges, Dr. Farley Neasman performed an angioplasty on the man. A surgical procedure that widens a blocked blood vessel.
Attorneys for the Salinas family claim that Santos was killed when he was given the blood thinner Herapin before the procedure. The lawsuit claims that the drug caused Santos to hemorrhage and go into cardiac arrest, which eventually killed him.
The hospital has not released a statement.
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Posted on February 25th, 2010
President Barack Obama said he beleives Republicans are overstating the effects of medical malpractice lawsuits on the health care system, but he would like to change how the United States deals with medical malpractice lawsuits.
Obama said on Thursday that he would like to change how the United States deals with medical malpractice lawsuits. He went on to say that he wants to work "across the aisle" and incorporate changes to medical malpractice laws. As republicans rally for changes to malpractice laws as part of the proposed health care overhaul, the President does not agree that malpractice lawsuits are the biggest driver of medical inflation.
Obama said he plans to look at pilot programs.
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Posted on February 19th, 2010
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled in favor of people with medical malpractice claims Thursday.
The court, divided 4-3, reversed a state Court of Appeals decision allowing a claim to proceed against a physician's assistant accused of misdiagnosing a boy's bone infection. 13 year-old Patrick Griesbach went to Walled Lake Medical Center for pain in his right leg on July 2, 2002, where he was examined by physician's assistant Robert R. Ross. Ross prescribed numerous drugs to the child, but failed to diagnose a bone infection. Griesbach later underwent emergency surgey and sustained irreversible cartilage damage in his hip.
Dissenting Justice Stephen Markman criticized the court for taking on powers that belong to the Legislature, saying the court's majority decision "ought to be deeply troubling to citizens of this state concerned about representative government."
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Posted on February 16th, 2010
A jury in Pomona awarded a $12 million verdict Thursday to a woman in a medical malpractice lawsuit.
Prosecutors claimed that 22 year-old Jessica Ramirez's current vegetative state could have been avoided by prompt surgery.
Ofelia Reynaga, Ramirez's mother, brought the lawsuit against Greater El Monte Community Hospital after her daughter waited hours at the facility in 2007 for surgery to remove an air-rifle pellet from her brain. Ramirez was eventually sent to another hospital for treatment. Attorney for Ramirez's mother, Dr. Bruce Fagel, said that "employees of [the hospital] delayed in their evaluation of [Ramirez's] condition and also delayed in transfer to another hospital after an x-ray showed a bullet in her brain."
The jury found the hospital to be negligent and awarded Ramirez's mother more than $10.6 million for future medical care, $373,000 for past medical expenses, and $1 million for pain and suffering.
A Philadelphia medical malpractice claim cannot undo the pain and suffering you and your family has experienced. However, legal action can help you battle the severe financial losses that victims of medical negligence commonly experience as well as prevent damage to future patients by calling attention to flaws in a particular hospital's system.
If you or someone you love has been the victim of Philadelphia medical malpractice or negligence, please contact the experienced Philadelphia medical malpractice lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. to learn more about the legal options available to injured patients. Please call 215-238-1130.
Posted on February 16th, 2010
A New York jury has awarded a $60 million verdict to a Bronx Woman in a medical malpractice lawsuit brought against a Queens County plastic surgeon.
According to court documents, Alison Hugh of Bronx, New York, went to Dr. Ferdinand A. Ofodile for a thigh lift procedure. The surgery left Hugh with significant injuries and a deformity to the labia of her vagina. The deformity sustained during the procedure is permanent and cannot be surgically corrected.
Attorneys for Hugh successfully argued that Dr. Ofodile failed to provide her with informed consent and did not inform her of the risks involved in such a procedure, including the risk of vaginal opening and deformity. The jury also found that Dr. Ofodile failed to use proper surgical techniques by leaving to much tension in the skin of Hugh's groin area.
The jury also agreed that Ofodile deviated from good and accepted medical practices in the surgery.
Hugh was awarded $10 million in past pain and suffering and $50 million in future pain and suffering.
Filing a Philadelphia medical malpractice claim cannot undo the pain and suffering you and your family has experienced. However, legal action can help you battle the severe financial losses that victims of medical negligence commonly experience as well as prevent damage to future patients by raising awareness to flaws in a particular hospital's system.
If you or someone you love has been the victim of Philadelphia medical malpractice or negligence, please contact the experienced Philadelphia medical malpractice lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. to learn more about the legal options available to injured patients. Please call 215-238-1130.
Posted on February 11th, 2010
New Hampshire is asking the state Supreme Court to reconsider a recent claim to a $110 million in surplus from a fund that underwrites medical malpractice insurance.
The court ruled last month, in a 3-2 decision, that policyholders' had a constitutionally protected contractual right to the money. The court said the state could not change law to apply retroactively to the contracts and take the surplus.
On Monday the state asked the court to rehear the case. The state claims that the court disregarded important facts and expanded the definition of vested rights to apply to policyholders, shifting the burden of proof to the state.
The state Supreme Court's ruling adds $45 million to New Hampshire budget shortfall.
If you or a loved one has been the victim of medical malpractice or negligence, please contact a Philadelphia medical malpractice attorney of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. by calling 215-329-3511.
Posted on February 11th, 2010
New Hampshire is asking the state Supreme Court to reconsider a recent claim to a $110 million in surplus from a fund that underwrites medical malpractice insurance.
The court ruled last month, in a 3-2 decision, that policyholders' had a constitutionally protected contractual right to the money. The court said the state could not change law to apply retroactively to the contracts and take the surplus.
On Monday the state asked the court to rehear the case. The state claims that the court disregarded important facts and expanded the definition of vested rights to apply to policyholders, shifting the burden of proof to the state.
The state Supreme Court's ruling adds $45 million to New Hampshire budget shortfall.
If you or a loved one has been the victim of medical malpractice or negligence, please contact a Philadelphia medical malpractice attorney of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. by calling 215-329-3511.
Posted on February 11th, 2010
The family of a young boy who was killed at the Westchester Medical Center in 2001 has reached a $2.9 million settlement with the hospital.
6-year-old Michael Colombini of Croton-on-Hudson was struck in the head by an oxygen tank while receiving an MRI. Colombini was lying in the MRI chamber when a hospital staffer brought a metal tank into the machine's magnetic field. The large magnets attracted the tank, which struck the boy in the head.
The boy's family filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in early July of 2002. According to Colombini's attorney, the case was close to going to trial when the settlement was reached.
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Posted on February 11th, 2010
A jury in Baltimore City has returned a $250,000 medical malpractice verdict against Johns Hopkins Hospital in favor of the parents of a 17 year-old girl who sufferes from a rare disorder which prevents her body from aging.
Brooke Greenberg had been a long-standing patient at Johns Hopkins, requiring regular treatment for her condition. Greenberg was scheduled for surger to replace her feeding tube in March of 2007. Upon his arrival at the hospital, Greenberg's father discovered her unattended in a swing in the hallway. Her body was covered with inexplicable bruising.
Nurses called to testify in the trial gave conflicting accounts of the days events.
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