In late April 2012, jurors in San Luis Obispo, California (CA), ordered a doctor to pay a family $74 million in compensatory and punitive damages after finding that negligence by the physician during their daughter’s delivery created a situation that allowed the child to develop cerebral palsy. The medical malpractice lawyer for the family, Nicholas…
Relatives say the air conditioning in the Easley, SC, long-term care facility has insufficient and not working in the areas were it was normally available.
In a new post to our firm’s VA-NC Medical Surgery Malpractice Blog, attorney Mark F. reports on a study showing that 20 percent of patients experience a fall within the first month of being admitted to a long-term care facility. He notes that nursing homes employing fewer certified nursing assistants had the highest number of…
A VA medical center has shut down its endoscopic program after one veteran suffered a perforated bowel due to a medical mistake during a routine colonoscopy.
In his latest post to our firm’s VA-NC Medical Surgery Malpractice Blog, my colleague Mark F. reports on a record award to a Maryland (MD) family whose son was born with cerebral palsy. Civil trial jurors found that doctors and nurses were negligent for not performing an emergency c-section in a timely manner. To read…