Allegedly overaggressive hospital security at North Carolina’s Cape Fear Valley Medical Center resulted in a patient dying, according to the Fayetteville Observer. In April 2011, AlliedBarton security guards at the NC hospital placed a schizophrenic patient in a choke hold after he was taken by ambulance to the emergency room with signs of paranoia. Then, hospital…
Implanting medical devices in patients without first obtaining informed consent to do so has resulted in a Huntington, West Virginia (WV), obstetrician and gynecologist defending himself against two medical malpractice lawsuits at the same time. According to the West Virginia Record, the surgeon, operating at St. Mary’s Medical Center, implanted Avaulta Anterior and Posterior BioSynthetic Support…
Josephine Stone was outside of the Hilton Garden Inn at 5th and Broad streets in Richmond, Virginia (VA), when her life came to an abrupt, tragic end. She was hit by a car being driven by a hotel valet. She was only 23 years old and a few days away from celebrating her second wedding…
A 19-year-old from the Fork Ridge area in Moundsville lost his life in an accident that occurred on Route 250 in Marshall County, West Virginia (WV). He was a passenger in a 1999 Dodge Neon. The driver was operating the Neon erratically and crossed a double yellow line, according to wtov9.com. After leaving his own…
My colleague Jim Lewis has written a new post for our law firm’s the medical malpractice blog site about a jury award in North Carolina (NC). The $25 million verdict was against the Cape Fear Valley Health System for failing to recognize that a boy admitted to the hospital was the victim of child abuse. DM