Medical Malpractice

• Eight Minute Colonoscopy Misses Tumor That Will Now Kill

  Ben Glass | April 20, 2008 6:10 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  A colonoscopy is one of the best things you can do to prevent colon cancer. Colon cancer is a killer but it is slow growing and very, very preventable. But....the colonoscopy has to be properly...

• Should Malpractice Prevent You from Practicing Elsewhere

  Ben Glass | April 19, 2008 6:04 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Here's an interesting story from Maine--it seems that a neurosurgeon with a serious malpractice claim pending in New York applied for and was given privileges to practice in Maine. The neurosurgeon...

• Nurse Arrested After Infecting Patients

  Ben Glass | March 29, 2008 9:59 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  In an unfortunate case of medical malpractice, a nurse suspected of theft of painkillers during surgical procedures is believed to have infected at least 15 members of military service or their relatives with hepatitis.The nurse, retired Army captain Jon Dale Jones, was placed under arrest in Miami, Florida earlier in March and charged with assault of three of those patients and possession of a...

• Should a Nursing Home Be Required to Carry Insurance

  Ben Glass | March 28, 2008 6:00 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Every so often we see debates in the media about whether hospitals, doctor, even lawyers, should be required to carry insurance. Required, that is, by law. Here's whats brewing in OklahomaAccording to a consumer group based out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, many of the nursing homes in the state appear to be under operation without insurance for medical malpractice.According to Hugh M. Robert, the...

• Those Darn Frivolous Malpractice Cases

  Ben Glass | March 27, 2008 9:51 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Every medical malpractice case is frivolous, right?Some folks can't utter the words "malpractice lawsuit" in a sentence that doesn't include the word "frivolous."How much is this one worth?A retired woman from Germany has filed a medical malpractice suit against a hospital after she went in to undergo a surgical procedure on her leg, but instead was surgically given a new anus, according to U.K....

• $809,000 for Testicle Lost by Delay

  Ben Glass | March 21, 2008 8:14 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  A Superior Court jury in Worcester County, Massachusetts has awarded a New Jersey man over $809,000 in damages and interest after he lost a testicle due to an emergency room doctor's failure to correctly diagnose his testicular torsion, according to court records.Dr. Mohsen Noreldin was ordered to make a payment of $500,000 in damages, to which over $309,000 in interest was added, said court...

• Ritter doctors cleared of malpractice

  Ben Glass | March 20, 2008 8:09 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  On Friday, March 14, a cardiologist and radiologist were cleared by a jury of medical malpractice for the diagnosis and treatment of deceased actor John Ritter. Ritter died of a torn aorta in 2003.A majority of the jurors believed there was no time for the cardiologist summoned to the hospital after the diagnosis of a heart attack to order a chest X-ray which would have discovered the tear.They...

• Mississippi to Limit Damages for Medicaid Patients?

  Ben Glass | March 10, 2008 5:48 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  The Senate of Mississippi has passed legislation that would limit the amount a Medicaid patient could receive from a physician in a lawsuit for medical malpractice.The proposal's supporters say that it will help attract and retain doctors that would serve Medicaid patients. However, critics of the bill say it is unfair to Medicaid patients since it places a restriction on the amount they can...

• Did Endoscopy Center Expose Patients to Hepatitis?

  Ben Glass | March 06, 2008 5:31 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  The Southern Nevada Health District believes that the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada may have exposed up to 40,000 patients to the hepatitis C virus, leading to several medical malpractice suits.Will Kemp, a class action attorney in Las Vegas, says that he received a call on Wednesday, February 27 from a man fearing he'd contracted the virus at the clinic. Kemp said he first believed the...

• Malpractice Caps Get Noticed When Celebrities Are Hurt

  Ben Glass | March 04, 2008 5:27 AM | 0 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA

  Ron Springs, a former player for the Dallas Cowboys who has been in a coma since the fall when he underwent a surgical procedure to remove a cyst, has been listen among the 11 plaintiffs who are challenging the medical malpractice cap of the state of Texas in a lawsuit filed on Monday, February 22.The lawsuit was filed in Marshall, Texas in the U.S. District Court for Texas' Eastern District and...