A jury in Washington County, West Virginia awarded a couple $564,000 last week in a medical malpractice lawsuit that was filed against a Hagerstown, Maryland surgeon for complications after breast reconstruction surgery. The jury stated that Dr. Aryeh Herrera was negligent when he deviated from standards of care when he did the surgery on Feb….
A Lincoln County, West Virginia woman is suing Michael Spindel, M.D., in Huntington for allegedly botching her breast augmentation surgery. The surgery was performed in May 2013, and the plaintiff states that Spindel was negligent and reckless in her surgery and follow up care. The lawsuit documents state that Spindel did not inform the woman…
The parents of a 24 year-old man from Virginia Beach, who committed suicide in 2012 after being prescribed large doses of Adderall, recently settled a $2 million lawsuit for $200,000. The wrongful death lawsuit involved former psychiatrist Waldo Ellison, who prescribed the 24 year-old man Adderall to treat his attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder when he was…
Rick Shapiro and Kevin Duffan obtained a $825,000 jury verdict in a medical malpractice case.
In a frightening and eye-opening piece in the New York Times today, reporter Robert Pear wrote that 94 percent of nursing homes across the country have violations, and that a full and staggering 100 percent of Washington, DC, elder care facilities have violations.