My law partner Rick Shapiro wrote about a recent sexual assault in a Chesapeake, Virginia (VA) nursing home. Such deplorable, disgusting acts need to stop but, unfortunately, they are not uncommon in Virginia (VA). Please click here to learn more about this terrible nursing home abuse situation.
I have written a series of articles focusing on simple methods of preventing injuries/medical malpractice in the hospital operating room setting, involving surgical sponges/towels left inside a patient’s body. The medical field calls this “retained sponge” situations, but patients suffering this malpractice just find out that they have a major infection and need to have…
A great result in a medical negligence case was recently achieved in the Spotsylvania Circuit Court of Virginia in a wrongful death case about a doctor’s error in treatment. According to an article that appeared in Virginia Lawyers Weekly, a jury awarded $7.5 million to the husband of a registered nurse who died from breast cancer. Eleanor Browder had noticed a lump in her breast
and had gone to see her family practitioner from Lee’s Hill Medical Associates in May 2003.
My law partner Rick Shapiro wrote about the necessity to remain aware of nursing home abuse. Three nursing homes were listed as some of the worst in the country according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. Please click here to read an article about the signs to look for if you believe nursing home…
As an injury attorney living in North Carolina’s Outer Banks (OBX) and regularly practicing in North Carolina, I know how difficult it is to win medical malpractice cases. Only lawyers who are dedicated to handling the complicated cases have a good chance of helping their clients get compensation for a serious injury or wrongful death…