Sales of Four Pelvic Mesh Products Being Dropped Following More than 600...
When you go into a hospital for surgery, you expect to go home in better condition than when you arrived. Sadly, that’s not always the case because sometimes the very products that are supposed to help...
View ArticleLegal Update: What You Need to Know About Medical Mistakes and How They Can...
Sometimes the serious injuries that medical patients undergo happen after they’re admitted to the hospital. Medical mistakes, the kind that happen when a doctor accidentally treats the wrong patient in...
View ArticleEmergency Room Treatment Delay Leads to $55 Million Verdict in Birth Defect Case
With the birth of her son imminent after several hours of labor at her home, a Waverly, Maryland, woman was rushed to a Baltimore hospital by ambulance for an emergency Caesarean section in March of...
View ArticlePost-Tonsillectomy Complications Led to Child’s Brain Injury, Jury Awards...
With their 11-month-old son regularly having breathing problems while he slept, his parents took him to a doctor for help. After a detailed sleep study to learn what was ailing the baby, the doctor...
View ArticleSurgical Items Left inside Patients 4,000 times Each Year: What You Need to...
Each year, some 4,000 surgical patients in the United States are seriously injured when items used during their procedures, from sponges to medical instruments, are accidentally left inside their...
View ArticleVaginal Mesh Case Yields $11.1 Million Award Verdicts to Seriously Injured...
The case is the first jury verdict in a backlog of several thousand such vaginal mesh injury cases across the United States. A former nurse who endured multiple vaginal mesh implant surgeries which...
View ArticleFailed Colon Surgery Results in Woman’s Death and a $19.5 Million Medical...
During a routine colonoscopy in 2008, a non-cancerous polyp was found inside the colon of a Bucks County, Pa., woman. But instead of removing the polyp through a minimally-invasive colonoscopy or an...
View ArticleDoctor’s Delay in Medical Treatment After Victim’s Auto Accident Leads to...
After being severely injured in an automobile accident on April 17, 2004, victim Randy Green of Marion, S.C., was rushed to Grand Strand Regional Medical Center, where he was to be prepped for surgery...
View ArticleLehigh Valley Family Awarded $4.1 Million Verdict After Daughter’s Severe...
As an Easton woman prepared to give birth to her daughter in August 2009, she discovered through a sonogram test that the fetus in her womb already weighed some 10 pounds. The woman shared her concerns...
View Article$2.4 Million Settlement in Death of Woman After Missed Cancer Diagnosis
When Sandra L. Berry of Juniata County, Pa., went to Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey complaining of persistent pain and discomfort back in October 2008, she and her husband...
View Article$3.34 Million Med Mal Verdict Awarded to Former Athlete
A 27-year-old man who was scheduled to play professional soccer in Colombia after college has received a $3.34 million medical malpractice verdict from a Philadelphia jury to compensate him after a...
View ArticleParalyzed After Spine Surgery, Woman Awarded $4.88M Jury Verdict
A former school bus driver who underwent spinal surgery in July 2008 has been awarded a $4.88 million verdict in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas after a post-surgical infection left her...
View Article$2.8M Verdict to Pa. Woman in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
Image credit © iStockphoto.com/courtneyk A Susquehanna County woman who underwent hip replacement surgery in April 2014 and was subsequently unable to return to work following the procedure has been...
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