Available 24/7 | Free Intial Consultation
713-396-3964
Available 24/7 | Free Intial Consultation
713-396-3964
Despite your best efforts to look after your aging parents, you may lack the time, training and equipment they need to grow older as gracefully, and with as much dignity, as possible. As a result, older adults often transition to life in a nursing home facility. You...
According to a report in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, the number of human mistakes increased by almost 20 percent after losing an hour from daylight savings. Researchers used eight years' worth of data to study errors that occurred in the seven days...
From April through June of 2020, emergency actions against doctors' licenses dropped by 59%. This overall drop was driven by declines between 50% and 100% in six states, including Texas. Such a drop caused many patient safety advocates to worry, because many hospitals...
If you are not a licensed medical professional, illness lends itself to turning to your physician for appropriate treatment options, often including the use of prescription drugs. Whether upon admittance to the hospital for supervised care or your return home with...
Last month, an El Paso couple filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking damages over $1 million and alleging gross negligence against El Paso Children's Hospital and a prominent local doctor over the death of their three-year-old daughter. According to the lawsuit, the...
The number of pregnancies medical providers handle each year does not negate the fact that complications occasionally develop. Some conditions can put the lives of both an expectant mother and a developing fetus at risk. Proper prenatal care can help doctors discover...
Five San Antonio hospitals are being penalized by federal regulators for high rates of what they have deemed to be preventable complications, including infections, blood clots after surgery, sepsis, bedsores, and hip fractures after falls. Under the Hospital-Acquired...
Although the increase of social media and reality television make it look easy, getting plastic surgery is not something to decide on a whim. Plastic surgery involves a variety of procedures designed to help people achieve their desired bodies. However, plastic...
Elder abuse is the unsung epidemic of today. Tragically, the World Health Organization estimates 2 out of 3 health care providers in nursing home facilities say they committed acts of patient abuse in 2017. Just to emphasize that point, the majority of health care...
Earlier this year, a Houstonian woman died after giving birth at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital ("LBJ"). The incident was the sixth time this year LBJ hospital has come under federal investigation because of a patient death.According to a report issued by the Centers for...
Nearly 6,900 of Florida's actively licensed doctors do not carry malpractice insurance. This new trend is colloquially called "going bare" or self-insuring. Meaning the doctor alone, rather than an insurance company, is responsible for any fees or awards resulting...
1,182 patients at an Indiana hospital may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C allegedly due to sanitation errors committed by the surgical technicians. Between April and September of this year, at least one of the surgical technicians at Goshen...
Abel Cepeda, then 5-days-old, was the eighth baby since the summer to get sick after being exposed to bacteria in Geisinger Medical Center's NICU. Two infants had died prior to Abel's birth. Geisinger has announced that the hospital's equipment contaminated donor...
Seattle Children's Hospital shut down all fourteen of its operating rooms earlier this year after Aspergillus mold spores infected six children in its operating rooms, leaving one dead. The hospital re-opened its operating rooms in July, telling the public it was...
Results of a recent survey raises safety concerns regarding same-day surgery centers. One-third of doctors at these types of medical facilities are found to not be board-certified according to the Leapfrog Group survey. The number includes anesthesiologists, surgeons,...
According to the Nursing Home Abuse Center, 95% of nursing home residents reported neglect in 2018. It's a shocking statistic. As a concerned loved one with a senior living in a nursing home, you will want to know: What are some warning signs of nursing home neglect?...
Gibran Ruiz, the husband of a 35-year-old Carol Ruiz, who contracted Legionnaire's disease at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in November 2017, has filed suit against the hospital.Legionnaires' disease is a severe type of pneumonia that is caused by the Legionella...
A New York jury awarded $55.9 million to a woman and her spouse in a lawsuit that alleged a spinal surgery left her paralyzed.The woman sought treatment from a surgeon for symptoms of tingling and pain in her arms, hands, and neck. The doctors recommended a surgery to...
On December 8, 2018, a 23-year-old leukemia patient died, two days after receiving a transfusion tainted with a bacterial infection at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas due to the uncovering of systematic safety lapses. The patient had a history of acute...
A Baltimore jury has awarded $229M in what is thought to be one of the largest jury awards for a medical malpractice lawsuit. The lawsuit was brought by a woman who alleged that her daughter suffered a brain injury at birth that now requires around the clock care.The...
Several patients have filed suit against Porter Adventist Hospital and claimed that they went in for surgery, but left with infections. The suit states, "This lawsuit is premised upon allegations of corporate negligence by Defendant Porter and its leadership and...
Kyle Evans, an HIV positive registered nurse in Texas, has been charged with two felonies for tampering with a consumer product and drug conversion. The charges stem from an incident in February 2019 when Evans was caught stealing five vials of hydromorphone, a pain...
A North Texas physician was recently sentenced to twenty years in prison in connection with the death of seven patients from 2012 to 2017. Pain management doctor, Howard Gregg Diamond, is the former principal physician at the Diamondback Pain & Wellness Center in...
Biologics, a short term for biological medication, are typically prescribed to nurse autoimmune skin diseases, joints, and gastrointestinal system. They are one of the few drugs that are not made chemically, but instead are extracted from animal cells in laboratories....
On June 20, 2016, George Walker, then 75 years old, called the VA's American Lake Division and complained of shortness of breath and chest pain. Mr. Walker was directed to go to the American Lake Urgent Care. Mr. Walker went as instructed the following day. The staff...
Last month, a suit was filed against Sharp Grossmont Hospital on behalf of approximately 80 women who have alleged that around 1,800 patients were recorded during procedures such as childbirth and hysterectomies. Dr. Patrick Sullivan, former chief of anesthesia,...
Carla Miller has sued Vanderbilt University Medical Center and alleged the hospital operated on the wrong kidney during surgery. Ms. Miller claims that Vanderbilt doctors were supposed to implant a mesh tube from her left kidney to her bladder. However, physicians...
A report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services revealed a pattern of blood labeling errors at St. Luke's in Houston during the past year. The report followed a yearlong investigation by both the Houston Chronicle and ProPublica that had documented several...
A man in Santa Fe, New Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Pacifica Senior Living for the death of his father, Julian Gaul. In February 2017, the staff found the 83-year-old man lying on the floor between his wheelchair and bed, and transported him to Christus St....
On December 29, 2018, an Arizona woman who had been in a vegetative state for ten years unexpectedly gave birth to a baby boy. The woman was a patient at Hacienda Healthcare, a facility for people in need of long-term medical care, located in Phoenix, Arizona....
A woman representing the estate of her veteran husband filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the United States after her husband died from treatment at the Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia, South Carolina. Ralph Keogh, who had previously been treated for acute...
According to federal officials, Dallas Behavioral Healthcare Hospital, a DeSoto psychiatric hospital, will lose Medicare funding for putting its patients in "immediate jeopardy" of harm. The decision was made based on inspection reports which detailed allegations such...
A lawsuit filed by an organ transplant recipient alleges that a Randall's pharmacy misfilled her prescription for several months before it was discovered, which reportedly caused "significant disruption both physically and mentally." The lawsuit, which was filed on...
In 2003, Texas voters narrowly approved a constitutional amendment to allow the Legislature to impose sweeping changes to the medical malpractice law in Texas. The stated purpose was to alleviate a medical malpractice insurance crisis.The centerpiece of the...
The families of Martin Maurer, Linda Paponetti, and Georgia Guzzi-Ozebek have filed suit against two family practice physicians at The Cleveland Clinic and alleged the doctors over-prescribed painkillers that led to accidental overdose and death.Martin Maurer was a...
Staff Sergeant Aaron Merritt died in October 2014, which was nine months after he was honorably discharged and less than ten months after he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at the Nashville VA. Carol and Steven Merritt, Aaron's parents, sued the VA in 2016 and...
A visitor of a nursing home posted a photo on Facebook of an elderly woman alleging that she had been sitting in her own vomit for hours. The person who posted the photo stated that when he arrived to visit his uncle around 7:30 p.m., he noticed the woman sitting in...
An Ohio jury awarded a boy and his family $44.5 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit against an Ohio laboratory. The child's parents brought a lawsuit against Athens Medical Laboratory Inc. alleging that a misdiagnosed and improper treatment of an ear infection in...
A botched knockoff of the drug Tri-Moxi (which is often injected into a patient's eye during cataract surgery) has caused at least 68 people in the Dallas area to suffer partial blindness or worse within days or weeks of being injected in the eye during routine...
In late July, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned consumers that several pharmaceutical companies have initiated recalls of the popular blood pressure drug valsartan after discovering that the medication is contaminated with a potentially carcinogenic...
Ending up in the hospital can often be stressful and expensive, but it shouldn't be dangerous, as well. That's why the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is reducing its payments to 751 hospitals as a penalty for their poor patient safety statistics....
The National Practitioner Data Bank records 2017 as having the lowest number of payments made by physicians' insurers since it began collecting data in 1990. According to the NPDB, payments peaked in 2001 at 19,773 reports of medical malpractice payments, whereas 2017...
More than ten years ago, Amy Williams lost her son, Christian Millare, after he suffered a fatal seizure. Ms. Williams has filed suit against Quest Diagnostics, a genetic testing lab, for allegedly misidentifying her deceased son's condition, which ultimately caused...
Have you ever felt rushed or cut off in conversation by your doctor?Doctors only spend 11 seconds on average listening to patients before interrupting them, according to a new study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. This could lead to...
In 2013, Hermelinda Toro (then 55-years-old) underwent pacemaker surgery at Stronger Hospital. Subsequently, she suffered several cardiopulmonary arrests, which resulted in brain injury and ultimately death. Allegedly, her artery was cut during the pacemaker insertion...
Mary Waters and her three children have sued Baylor Scott & White Hillcrest Medical Center and nursing assistant Felecia Thompson for the wrongful death of Douglas Waters, Sr. The suit alleges that Ms. Thompson struck Mr. Waters on the head, neck, and face while...
Timothy Lewis died of an overdose on May 4, 2017. His mother has filed suit against employees of HOPE Clinic, Cross Lanes Family Pharmacy, and Poca Valu-Rite. She has alleged they operated a pill mill and fatally over-prescribed opioid medication to her...
Each year, 250,000 patients die from medical errors - more than motor and air crashes, suicides, falls, poisonings, and drownings combined - according to John Hopkins published research. Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States, yet a...
Two families filed suit this week against Clear Lake Regional Medical Center over the deaths of their newborn babies. Both allege that the hospital and various doctors were responsible for the "negligent evaluation, treatment, and management" of their infants.The...
Dr. Windell Boutte, a Georgia dermatologist who posted videos on her YouTube channel of herself dancing and mugging for the camera while performing surgery on unconscious patients, has been sued by multiple, both before and after the posting of her videos. The...
According to the autopsy, 93-year-old Rebecca Zeni died of "septicemia due to crusted scabies" while a resident Shepherd Hills Nursing Home, which is operated by Pruitt Health. The family has filed suit. State health officials were notified about the scabies outbreak...
A woman was literally eaten alive by parasitic mites while the staff at her nursing home looked on. In 2015, forensic pathologists found 93-year-old Rebecca Zeni had died from "septicemia due to crusted scabies" after millions of parasitic mites, known as scabies,...
A local newspaper reviewed several public records and lawsuits and found that around half of the psych hospitals in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have had at least one major safety incident since 2011. A major safety incident was defined as a suicide or significant...
According to a recent report, errors related to diagnostic studies were the largest source of medical malpractice claims across a five-year period. The report was prepared by Coverys, a malpractice services provider. In preparing the report, the authors reviewed...
Cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Christopher Stone, was hired to treat patients for the Medical College of Wisconsin. It is alleged that just before he was to start, another physician informed the dean that there were allegations against Dr. Stone that he had performed...
Human Rights Watch published a study finding that approximately 179,000 nursing home residents are medicated with antipsychotic drugs, even though they do not have schizophrenia or other serious mental illnesses.Many nursing home residents have Alzheimer's disease or...
According to a suit filed in federal court, Dr. Michael Livingston began prescribing Beverly Dennis hydrocodone and phentermine around May 2016. In July 2016, Dr. Livingston also prescribed oxycodone to Ms. Dennis without verifying through Prescription Monitoring...
In 2009, Martha Jane Pierce's son took a sock off of his 82 year-old mother's foot. He discovered rotting flesh. According to her daughter, "It looked like a piece of black charcoal," and smelled "like death." Mrs. Pierce was ultimately transferred to the hospital,...
A jury recently awarded $48 million to Gizzell Ford's family, finding that Chicago pediatrician Dr. Norell Rosado was medically negligent in treating 8-year-old Gizzell during a molestation exam a few weeks prior to her tragic murder.The lawsuit alleged Rosado failed...
Last month, the Texas Supreme Court agreed to hear a case in which a Houston-based obstetrics and gynecology practice and one of its physicians argue that there was legally insufficient evidence to support a $9.6 million jury award in favor of a woman who sustained a...
Julie and Douglass Mittleider have operated nursing homes in several states, including Georgia. Court records show complaints of inadequate care, including issues with mold, snakes, roaches and rodents. Residents have also complained of untreated bedsores and not...
Johnson & Johnson and Bayer were recently ordered by a Philadelphia court to pay $27.8 million in damages to an Indiana couple. The pharmaceutical companies failed to sufficiently warn patients of the risk of internal bleeding associated with the drug, Xarelto....
A Georgia-based non-profit and associated companies have agreed to pay $1.25M for claims that they provided effectively worthless services to residents in a Mississippi nursing home. The lawsuit was filed against nursing care conglomerate owners, Julie and Douglas...
Four residents of Villa Capri assisted living center have sued the facility and alleged that on October 9, 2017, they were abandoned by the facility's staff when a firestorm forced an evacuation. The suit alleges that the residents, along with "other residents in...
A woman in Canada gave birth in March and didn't seem to face any complications. She returned to the hospital the day after bringing her baby home and complained of stomach pains. She was told by her doctors that her stomach ache was a result of constipation, and she...
In 2013, Anthony Gonzales was injured in a car wreck. He was prescribed cyclobenzaprine, a muscle relaxant, for pain. In 2014, Mr. Gonzales had his prescription filled at Walgreens. According to his lawsuit, the pharmacist instead gave him Xanax, which belonged to...
A jury found Dr. Thomas Myers, a neonatologist, was negligent and has caused ongoing health problems for Tinley Parker, now five years old. They awarded more than $23 million to the family. According to the family's attorney, Tinley suffered massive blood loss at...
Monica Thompson has filed suit and alleged that a nurse brought her son Jacob to her hospital bed at Portland Adventist Medical Center to breastfeed in the early hours of August 6, 2012. The nurse placed Jacob next to Ms. Thompson in the bed and left. Approximately...
Stewart Dolin, a 57-year-old Chicago lawyer, committed suicide by throwing himself in front of an oncoming train. He had started paroxetine, the generic form of Paxil, five days before his death. His wife, Wendy Dolin, sued the original manufacturer of Paxil,...
Amidst the disaster and destruction brought about by Hurricane Irma, Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, a nursing home in Hollywood, Florida, lost power leaving more than 150 of its residents without air conditioning. Eight of the Center's residents died from...
Wendy Ann Noon Berner has sued The University of Kansas Health System, Dr. Meenakshi Singh, and Dr. Timothy Schmitt for alleged cancer misdiagnosis. Dr. Singh is the former chair of the hospital's pathology department and Dr. Schmitt is a surgeon who was involved in...
Recently, an Oregon woman filed a lawsuit against Portland Adventist Medical Center and one of the hospital's nurses after the woman's newborn son suffocated in a hospital bed. According to the lawsuit, a hospital nurse brought the newborn to the mother's hospital...
Anna Burkhart, 90, was admitted to Oradell Health Care Center for care after she suffered a fractured hip on October 30, 2014. While a patient, Ms. Burkhart developed a large, painful bedsore, which ultimately caused her death. Her family has filed suit.Martha Anne...
Joshua Jackson was born at home nearly 12 weeks prematurely. He was taken to The Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida. There, according to the lawsuit, nurses improperly inserted a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC), which is a type of...
Mary McCaughan, 83-years-old, has filed suit in Travis County alleging negligence by Regency HIS of Windsor Duval, LLC and Regency Integrated Health Services, LLC. The suit details that Carlos Alberto Santa Cruz, a certified nurse aide at Windsor Nursing and...
In December 2013, Marla Dixon delivered her son, Earl, Jr., at North Shore Medical Center in Miami. At delivery, the baby was blue and his limbs were limp. The medical team revived him, but Earl, Jr. was left with a permanent, severe brain injury due to a lack of...
A Pennsylvania federal judge recently ruled that the federal government pay $41.6 million to a couple after determining that a doctor at a federally funded health clinic negligently used forceps to deliver the couple's baby, causing permanent brain damage. The judge...
A recent study by the Mayo Clinic found that more than 20 percent of patients who sought a second opinion had previously been misdiagnosed by their primary care physician. During the two-year study, researchers examined the records of 286 patients who had seen primary...
A recent study by the Mayo Clinic found that more than 20 percent of patients who sought a second opinion had previously been misdiagnosed by their primary care physician. During the two-year study, researchers examined the records of 286 patients who had seen primary...
Carmen Alexander, a 43-year-old school teacher, died Feb. 21, 2012, just two days after being admitted to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. Her death was connected to a serious bacterial infection known as necrotizing fasciitis (NF), which can spread quickly through the...
In January 2015, the family of Michael Powall filed suit against the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Hillcrest Hospital, Dr. Jack Lissauer, and Dr. David Weinerman. The family has alleged that the doctors caused the death of Mr. Powall, then 78-years-old, during a...
Last June, federal health officials warned U.S. clinics about the hard to spot Candida Auris, a fungal yeast strain that was first reported in Japan. The limited information has painted the strain with a 60% kill rate and with a resistance to all three major classes...
When you seek help for a medical condition, you are reasonable to expect that your doctor/medical professional will administer the right tests, prescribe the right treatment, and generally act in your best interests.Unfortunately, this does not always happen. While...
The parents of Daisy Lynn Torres have filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging their daughter died as a result of anesthesia administered during treatment for tooth decay. Daisy Lynn was 14-months-old when she died.Daisy's mother, Betty Squier, took her child to the...
In late 2011, Steven Cooper, who served nearly 18 years in the Army, went to the Carl T. Haden VA Medical Center. A nurse practitioner found abnormalities during his prostate examination. Eleven months later, Mr. Cooper was told that he had stage IV prostate cancer....
According to a lawsuit Carter filed Thursday in Hillsborough Circuit Court, Dr. Larry Glazerman mistakenly sliced through her small bowel when removing her cyst. Then he sewed her up without noticing the error.That led to the massive infection, internal damage and...
Kathryn Brackett, age 85, died of hypothermia outside Crystal Springs on October 27, 2016. Crystal Springs is a part of Meridian Senior Living, LLC. The family filed suit. Ms. Brackett left the facility around 12:30 a.m. and was not discovered until 5:00 a.m....
Kathryn Brackett, age 85, died of hypothermia outside Crystal Springs on October 27, 2016. Crystal Springs is a part of Meridian Senior Living, LLC. The family filed suit.Ms. Brackett left the facility around 12:30 a.m. and was not discovered until 5:00 a.m. According...
In 2011, about 650,000 people across the United States developed infections after being admitted into hospitals. Of the 650,000, 75,000 patients died as a result. About 5% of those deaths were due to infections from central lines, a direct IV to a person's larger...
Recently, the FDA posted a voluntary recall from Raritan Pharmaceuticals of homeopathic children's remedies containing belladonna extract. Belladonna, also known as "deadly nightshade," is a plant traditionally used in herbal remedies that can be poisonous, and even...
Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine, the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and the Institute of Medical Education Research Rotterdam, Erasmus MC have proposed a pragmatic framework of strategies to reduce errors of diagnosis in hospitalized...
Research published by Jama Internal Medicine found that only half of diagnosed patients with the 3 most common bacterial infections are receiving proper treatment. The study was from the data of a group of 44 million patients, meaning that only around 22 million...
Across America, nursing homes have been using the private justice system of arbitration to quietly deal with practices such as abuse, sexual harassment, or even wrongful death to reduce legal costs at the expense of their patients. Upon entry, patients sign a contract...
Daniel Krieg, 56, died on July 9, 2016. His nephew has filed a lawsuit against UPMC Montefiore alleging "professional negligence" by the hospital. Mr. Krieg died from multi-organ failure due to sepsis approximately one year after undergoing a kidney transplant at UPMC...
Well over half a million people die every year as a result of drug resistant antimicrobials, with as many as 2 million being infected in the United States alone. Last week, a group of normally competing pharmaceutical companies came together to put together a plan for...
We put a lot of trust in doctors and medical providers. When faced with an injury, illness or medical problem, we depend on them for accurate diagnoses and effective treatment plans. Most of the time, doctors are accurate in their diagnoses. Most of the time, they...
A Dallas County jury delivered a $19.7 million verdict against Dr. Jennifer Burris and her employer, Acute Surgical Care Specialists, for the wrongful death of Ms. Katina Clark. Prior to her death, Ms. Clark lived in a permanent vegetative state for a year and a half...
As a society, we put considerable faith in professionals-deferring to their education and citing their professional titles as reliable. To that end, we trust that engineers will properly plan and construct buildings and roadways. We expect that our accountants are...
According to an analysis by the Austin American-Statesmen, between 1999 and 2016, three out of four doctors that were punished for sexual misconduct with patients did not lose their medical licenses and were allowed to continue working as physicians. The Texas Medical...
Every year pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers hire doctors as consultants and endorsers for their products, however an analysis by ProPublica shows that many hundreds of these doctors have various sanctions against them, some which are very...
The parents of Andrea Selby have filed an $8.2 million lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente claiming they refused to admit their suicidal daughter despite her threats to jump off the third story of the hospital's parking garage. In June 2014, Andrea Selby was being...
In April 2010, Michelle Sanchez was seen at the Lovelace emergency room in New Mexico for left leg swelling and infection. She was treated and released with a recommendation for other tests. Later that month, she was hospitalized for about two weeks. In May 2011, Ms....
On May 19, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which oversees Texas and neighboring states, held that the expert report requirements for medical malpractice claims required under Texas state law do not apply to cases filed in federal court....
Every year, an estimated 700,000 deaths are attributed to superbugs, microbials that are resistant to antibiotics due to overuse. These numbers are expected to only grow - towards 10 million a year, or 1 every 3 seconds, with comparisons of medicine being sent back to...
Should the extensive protections afforded to negligent doctors under Texas' medical malpractice laws apply to a hospital's wrongful handling of a corpse? On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court said "yes."In 2003, the Texas Legislature passed a law, commonly referred to as...
If you believe your injury or medical condition was either caused by or worsened due to the negligence of a healthcare professional, you may be able to seek compensation through a medical malpractice lawsuit.Negligence is an important aspect of a medical malpractice...
When you are involved in a car wreck, the police investigate. If there is an injury, by law the officers must prepare and file a Crash Report. That Crash Report is part of the public record. Policymakers and citizens can use it to make decisions to improve safety on...
In December 2014, Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles allegedly discharged a homeless person in Echo Park without obtaining the patient's consent to be transported somewhere other than a residence. Additionally, the hospital allegedly did not prepare a proper...
The FDA has announced the voluntary recall for Reliable Drug Pharmacy compounding products due to mislabeling. Many of these products have been distributed to medical professionals, patients, and veterinarians in California, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Michigan. As a...
Brad Harris, 34, founded Novus Health Care Services, Inc. in July 2012. An FBI agent wrote in an affidavit for a search warrant that Mr. Harris regularly directed nurses to give hospice patients overdoses of drugs such as morphine to speed up their deaths and maximize...
A study found that families may be a source for improving hospital safety and avoiding mistakes, as parents often catch errors that doctors miss. The study involved two pediatric units at a hospital in Boston. Analysis of safety incidents found that approximately one...
The family of a six year old boy has settled a medical malpractice suit for $30 million against a physician who allegedly performed several experimental surgeries. Born in November 2009, the child had a leak in his esophagus, along with other conditions, none of which...
A new study from September has shown that errors in diagnostics are even more rampant than previously estimated. One in 20, or 5%, are effected annually, with 10% of patient deaths attributing to these types of errors. And while there are numerous recommendations by...
When health care providers fail to provide accurate and timely diagnoses, patients are placed at risk. Proper diagnosis is critical to medical care. In September, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report that found diagnostic errors are a persistent problem....
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued another warning in regards to artery clearing tools. The devices are part of a new system used to open constricted arteries to help blood flow via cutting plaque from artery walls. In September. the FDA reported an...
On August 2, 2011, Lewis Ogioba, then 15 years old, felt dizzy during basketball practice. His parents took him to Easton Hospital located in Forks Township, Pennsylvania. He was seen at 7:59 p.m. by Dr. Chiraag Gupta in the emergency room. Dr. Gupta treated Lewis...
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is considered one of the top hospitals in the nation. Researchers discovered about half of the surgeries performed at this institution have administered medications by error or with unintended side effects. These findings are even...
Five years ago, Zoraida Zambrana was diagnosed with thymic cancer, a rare cancer of the thymus gland. Just 41 years old, Ms. Zambrana underwent three months of chemotherapy. Unfortunately, the treatment did not work. Her physicians later discovered that she did not,...
It is clear that hospitals are dangerous places. Sixteen years ago, the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences published a study, "To Err is Human," and concluded that at least 44,000 patients were killed (and many more injured) in hospitals each...
The family of I'Nayah Wright Trussell has filed suit and alleged a medic refused to perform CPR when I'Nayah stopped breathing. I'Nayah, born in September of 2014, was premature. She had been assisted by an oxygen machine before she suddenly stopped breathing....
Every year, well over half a million people come down with infections during hospital visits, with 75,000 dying from them. Part of the problem is the ease at which bacteria can spread at hospitals, with sick people flowing into where compromised people already are....
It doesn't happen often, but some doctors are charged with criminal offenses when they commit medical malpractice. This means that in addition to any civil lawsuits that patients file against them, doctors could also face criminal charges - charges that could result...
While texting and driving is almost universally agreed to be one of the most dangerous habits of this current generation, dangerous texting has begun to branch out into other areas of people's lives. Interviews have shown that the medical field has had an increasing...
Coumadin, a blood thinner, can cause death if it is not properly administered and monitored. This drug must be carefully adjusted; if a patient is given too much, bleeding cannot be controlled. If enough is not given, clots can develop. According to government...
A patient in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Reston, Virginia, was just awarded $500,000 by a civil jury after a trial in which it heard evidence of the patient's doctors mocking him during a colonoscopy. The male patient had recorded the doctor's post-operative...
The family of Kristy Stingley filed a lawsuit against Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital, an ER doctor, and a neurologist for medical malpractice. The plaintiffs allege that the hospital committed gross negligence after misdiagnosing Kristy Stingley's brain...
A 2013 lawsuit in Virginia resulted in a man being awarded about $500,000 for medical malpractice and defamation. The case, which is progressively growing notoriety, was brought to light when the anonymous man discovered that he accidently recorded his entire...
David Antoon, a retired Air Force colonel, has tried multiple times to recover from the Cleveland Clinic for complications he experienced after surgery for prostate cancer. A federal appeals court has rejected his lawsuit. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found...
Mickey Murray, a Navy veteran and former Norfolk, Virginia sheriff's deputy, filed a lawsuit against the federal government claiming medical malpractice regarding a surgery performed on his right foot. Mr. Murray is asking for $2.15 million for his injuries. Last...
A study from the University of Michigan was started about 15 years ago to improve the communication between doctors and patients. This study encouraged doctors to talk more with their patients and to apologize for any misunderstandings about their treatments. In...
At St. Mary's Medical Center in Florida, Layla McCarthy had surgery to widen a narrowing in her aorta, which is the vessel that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body. After surgery, Layla stopped moving her legs; doctors could not explain why. Layla was...
In February 2008, Naomi Pressey was scheduled for surgery. On the operating table, Naomi went into cardiac arrest. Doctors were unable to resuscitate her for 33 minutes. She suffered a brain injury, which caused cerebral palsy and other medical problems. Now seven,...
Aaron Young has accused a major healthcare device maker, Olympus Corporation of the Americas, of negligence for selling a medical scope prone to spreading deadly bacteria. According to the lawsuit, Mr. Young was exposed to a contaminated duodenoscope at UCLA in...
Recent news accounts from Dallas report that family members suspect that a 34-year-old woman died after receiving injections to improve the appearance of her buttocks. The incident highlights the rights-or, rather, the sharply curtailed rights-Texans have when a...
Last week, the Fourteenth Court of Appeals ruled in Brazos Presbyterian Homes, Inc. v. Lander that case, an auto accident case involving a nursing home visitor and the home's valet, was a "health care liability case" subject to Texas medical malpractice tort reform...
In 2013, Lourdes Rivera underwent a medical procedure. While under anesthesia, her dentures dislodged and became stuck in her esophagus. Ms. Rivera was injured and has filed suit against Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Jersey City.The lawsuit claims that in...
Lost in the national political dialogue following last November's elections was a ballot referendum in California that sought to protect patients from poor medical care. The referendum, which sought to roll back the tide of "tort reform" demagoguery in state houses...
Patient Safety America's founder John T. James, PhD, published a study on deaths associated with needless complications in hospitals around the country, stressing the need for more health care regulation. In the study, he estimates over 400,000 American lives are...
Despite a 2010 law created to crack down on illegal prescribing, many Texas doctors who violate prescription drug laws have little to fear from prosecutors, even if their patients die of an overdose. In the past three years, less than a third of the 83 doctors...
The federal government utilizes a five-star rating program for nursing homes, a consumer tool that has been criticized for its reliance on self-reported, unverified data. Recently, the government announced it is implementing several changes to that program.Five years...
The general director of the Juárez Health Department, Dr. Hugo Staines Orozco, said the state health department notified the Mexican government that 86 babies may have been exposed to a tuberculosis infected patient care technician who worked with the newborns at...
Three new studies in the field of medical malpractice research have confirmed that "caps" lead to more medical errors, higher health care costs, and no increase in patient care physician numbers. The study analyzed states that enacted caps within the last ten years...
Sabrina Kropp has sued Dr. Robert Walton, a Chicago plastic surgeon, alleging that he posted before and after photos of her facial reconstruction surgery on his website and without her consent. The photos were labeled "cocaine nose." Ms. Kropp's understanding was that...
According to an article from the New York Times, a recent study has found that so called tort reform savings are mythical. Tort reform has been a central plank in the Republican program for healthcare reform for decades. The idea was originally created to stop so...
A recent study found that state nursing homes are over-prescribing antipsychotic drugs. Further investigation found that state investigators cited Texas nursing homes 1,060 times for medication errors in 2011. In 2013, that number rose by nearly 200.The AARP conducted...
Generally, a constitution determines whether a statute is permissible, not the other way around. But, on Friday, the Supreme Court used a finding within statute in order to determine that it was constitutional. And, with that finding, the court protected a doctor and...
One day after celebrating her 73rd birthday, Dalia Hernandez was admitted to Northeast Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas to have a gangrenous toe amputated. What was expected to be a short hospital admission turned into tragedy.According to court documents, Dr....
Russell Means, an American Indian activist, died in 2012. His widow has sued a New Mexico hospital for wrongful death and medical malpractice, alleging her husband's cancer was misdiagnosed.Mr. Means began his activism in the early 1960's by protesting the use of...
Our attorneys have been retained to represent a Houstonian who has been seriously injured by a pharmacist's careless mistake.In June 2012, 65-year-old Houstonian Claudis Alston filled a prescription at a local CVS Pharmacy to treat his pink eye. Unbeknownst to Alton,...
The Sunset Advisory Commission of Texas recently released a report recommending state legislators close down six state supported living centers for people with disabilities. The Sunset Advisory Commission is tasked with identifying and eliminating inefficiency in...
In March of 2014, a psychiatric ER nurse at Parkland Memorial Hospital shoved a toilet paper roll into a patient's mouth while another staff member covered her head with a sheet. A police report noted "blood stains can be seen on the toilet tissue."The incident comes...
Doctors' fears of medical malpractice lawsuits have led to an increasing number of unnecessary repeat cesarean sections. Even where vaginal birth is possibly safer option, obstetricians increasingly choose the surgical procedure as a legally safe alternative. One...
Elizabethtown Hematology Oncology PLC and its owners paid nearly $4 million dollars to resolve allegations that they filed false claims for payment to Medicare, Medicaid, and the military's medical provider for extending the duration of chemotherapy to patients and...
Recently, 950 plaintiffs settled with Medtronic a company that manufactured the "Infuse Bone Graft" for $22 million. A further $140 million is estimated to also settle about 3,800 additional claims.Medtronic "continues to stand behind INFUSE bone graft" and does not...
In March of 2013, Katherine Wagner presented to Carolina Community Maternity Center in South Carolina for her 39 week checkup. At that time, she was experiencing contractions. She was told to "relax, take a walk, and eat some food" according to court documents. Mrs....
According to the New York Times, a VA hospital in Jackson, Miss. has been accused, by a retired doctor who worked at the VA for over 30 years, of misreading or failing to read X rays and CT scans. This VA has also been accused of failing to maintain proper...
AlloDerm is a type of skin graft used mainly for reconstructive breast surgery and hernia repairs. Patients are reporting adverse effects on their health including infection, abscesses, pain and soreness, and inflammation and swelling. These side effects are extremely...
GranuFlo a product used in dialysis causes a high risk for cardiac arrest when not prescribed properly. A judge in Colorado, dismissed some claims against DaVita Healthcare partners because the company did not manufacture the products, they simply added water to the...
A lawsuit was recently filed in a Texas court alleging a nursing home failed to provide appropriate health care for three different residents. The families of the three victims sued Parklane West Healthcare Center for negligence in the management and staffing of the...
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) was ordered by a Texas jury to pay $1.2 million to a woman who alleged one of the company's lines of vaginal-mesh implants to treat incontinence was defectively designed, in the first verdict against the company over those devices. Jurors...
On November 9, 2010, Thomas Haskell, then 63 years old, underwent cardiac bypass surgery at Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) in Ellsworth, Maine. Due to complications, Mr. Haskell died four days later.Postoperatively, Mr. Haskell experienced significant blood loss....
On March 13, 2014, the Florida Supreme Court issued a 5-2 ruling that invalidated Florida statutes that place caps on the recoverable non-economic damages in medical negligence (malpractice) cases. In 2003, then-governor Jeb Bush called a special session of Florida...
According to a report released by the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, roughly one-third of nursing home patients released from hospitals were harmed by their caregivers. National Public Radio further reports that...
The prescription drug Paxil has been used by many doctors across Texas and the United States to treat depression, anxiety disorders, stress disorders, and other mental conditions. Unfortunately, this drug has had adverse side effects for many people including birth...
According to the Associated Press, two West Virginia agencies have joined the lawsuit against drug company Cardinal Health alleging its negligent practices have helped fuel the state's pain pill abuse epidemic. The Department of Health and Human Resources and the...
Every year pharmaceutical companies bring to market a vast numbers of new drugs. With these new drugs the pharmaceutical industry is hoping to provide the next cure to a disease or health problem, but sometimes it is to just have the most marketable product to sell....
In 2003, the state of Texas passed tort reform. This legislation created special considerations specific to medical malpractice claims, which includes the notice letter, medical authorization, and a tolling of the statute of limitations. Before a plaintiff can sue a...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a recall of automated external defibrillators after learning that they may fail to deliver a shock in the event of an emergency. This recall includes devices that are used by first responders (such as EMS...
It is well known that there are often risks involved with medical procedures. Infection and bleeding are two complications that come to mind. But can a complication of a procedure turn into medical malpractice? For example, suppose a patient undergoes a surgical...
According to government data, more than 465,000 spinal fusions were performed in the United States in 2011. Some experts say that a portion of them, perhaps as many as half, were performed without good reason. The government study of Medicare billings showed that...
According to the New York Times, Johnson & Johnson has tentatively agreed to a settlement that could reach up to $4 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuits filed by patients injured by a flawed all-metal replacement hip implant.The tentative plan, which must win...
According to the New York Times, Americans spend an estimated $5 billion a year on herbal supplements that promise everything from fighting off colds to curbing hot flashes. But now there is more reason for supplement buyers to beware. DNA tests show that many pills...
It is always difficult when you or a loved one is hurt by medical malpractice. Unfortunately, in addition to losing your health, your remedies are limited by legislation that was passed in 2003. Medical malpractice is brought forward under a legal theory called...
New reports surrounding the sports supplement Craze have caused concern throughout the athletic arena. Tests by scientists in the United States and South Korea have found, what they report to be, a chemical similar to methamphetamine in the popular sports supplement....
A new study just released in the Surgery journal reveals that prevalence of "never events" in hospitals is much higher than previously thought. The analysis was done in hospitals looking at national malpractice claims, and examiners observed that over 80,000 "never...
Generally, patients seeking to sue a hospital or healthcare provider have two years to bring forth a claim of medical malpractice. This is known as the statute of limitations. The two year statute begins running on the date the malpractice occurred. However, that date...
In a recent Bloomberg analysis, it was determined that the number of deaths associated with the implantation of cardiac stents has risen as statistics suggest doctors are overusing the stents. The article actually opened up telling the story of Bruce Petersen, a Texas...
A new study conducted by NASA toxicologist John T. James has estimated that between 210,000 and 440,000 deaths are caused each year by medical errors. This number is a dramatic rise from previous estimate in 1999 that reported up to 98,000 people died from hospital...
Johnson & Johnson, who has in the past experienced some serious concerns and questions with regards to its quality control, has again announce two recalls of popular consumer products in the space of one week - liquid Motrin for infants and Risperdal Consta. These...
According to Bloomberg, payouts on medical malpractice cases for VA claims is at an all-time high. Christopher Ellison went to a veterans medical center in Philadelphia to get eight teeth extracted in 2007. What should have been a routine dentist visit left him...
Based on the National Observational Study of Prescription Dispensing Accuracy and Safety in a 50 pharmacy test, an estimated 6.5% of all medical prescriptions are filled incorrectly to a point to be of clinical importance. The same study shows that there are roughly 4...
Ten years ago, Texas passed tort reform, which capped damages in medical malpractice suits, as reported by the Houston Chronicle on September 1, 2013. Specifically, damages for pain and suffering, or non-economic damages, were limited to a maximum of $250,000.00 in...
According to a recent article by Bloomberg, Johnson & Johnson has discussed paying more than $3 billion to settle lawsuits over its recalled hip implants. J&J seeks to resolve as many as 11,500 lawsuits in the U.S. and has considered paying more than $300,000...
In a new study released by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), researchers believe that traditional malpractice reforms enacted by states, such as caps on damages that we have in Texas, do not actually change how physicians practice. In the August...
In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court of Texas overturned a decision issued by the court of appeals in favor of a nursing home patient who alleged that a nursing home had retaliated against her after her family complained about its conditions. The Court treated the...
Studies reveal post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a symptom after a patient has experienced an intensive care unit (ICU) stay. Often doctors, nurses, and caregivers overlook the psychiatric symptoms which may develop in patients after an intensive care unit...
Contrary to popular intuition, surgical errors are not the basis for the majority of medical malpractice lawsuits, but in fact the leading causes of malpractice lawsuits are diagnostic issues. There are several diagnostic issues such as misdiagnosis, delayed...
In a recent unanimous decision, the Texas Supreme Court made it clear that the 120-day clock for filing those reports stops when plaintiffs nonsuit their claim. The decision, CHCA Woman's Hospital D/B/A The Woman's Hospital of Texas and Woman's Hospital of Texas v....
A USA TODAY study found that tens of thousands of times each year unnecessary surgeries are performed. Thousands of people each year fall victim to the wrong doctor, one that lacks the knowledge or competence to consider alternatives to surgery, or one who takes...
Every year, tens of thousands of patients undergo surgery that they do not actually need. Patients around the country need to reconsider the unconditional trust they place in their doctors, especially when facing an operation. Unnecessary surgeries may account for up...
In 2009, at the age of 54, Jed Grisham began taking Plavix for the treatment of blockages in his arteries. Approximately two years later, Grisham suffered from a large left brain hemorrhage and died from his injuries.The wife of the deceased Huntington man has filed a...
The parents of a disabled North Carolina girl won a victory over the state's subrogation interest, as the Supreme Court struck down a law allowing state officials to seize one-third of a medical malpractice settlement.In a 6-3 ruling that affects numerous states, the...
According to the New York Times, North Shore University Hospital on Long Island uses motion sensors every time someone enters an intensive care room. The sensor triggers a video camera, which transmits its images halfway around the world, where workers are checking to...
The orthopedic unit of Johnson & Johnson recently announced that it was phasing out production of all-metal hip replacement, a move reflecting an industry wide trend to abandon the once widely used implants because of high early failure rates.In 2010, the company,...
In the wake of a recent deadly meningitis outbreak, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee will consider ways to strengthen regulation of drug compounding.The issue is on Congress's radar as a result of the meningitis outbreak that has...
The New York Times recently wrote on a blog report identifying what kind of medical error accounts for most malpractice payments. As it turns out, it is not surgical mistakes, medication errors or labor and delivery mishaps. Looking at the most common cause of paid...
On April 16, 2013, a twelve person jury Cook County, Illinois jury rendered a verdict in favor of DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary, in a lawsuit brought by Carol Strum for personal injuries. This is the second case to go to trial regarding...
Once again the controversial diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia) will be the subject of a 2 day Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hearing. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking the unusual step of re-evaluating the evidence of safety risks from the once...
The Supreme Court has agreed that it will hear a case regarding whether a generic drug maker can be held liable in product-liability lawsuit claiming a design defect.The hearing follows a federal court's upholding of a $21 million award to Karen Bartlett, a New...
On March 8, 2013 a Los Angeles jury awarded $8.3 million in compensatory damages to the Plaintiff, Loren "Bill" Kransky, in the four week jury trial against Johnson & Johnson's DePuy subsidiary. The jury concluded that DePuy was liable for the design defects in...
According to a new warning from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a popular antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections can cause abnormal changes in the electrical activity of the heart that may lead to a potentially fatal irregular heart rhythm. The drug,...
A recent article highlighted the significant number of medical malpractice incidents when foreign objects are left in patients following surgeries. Peter Eisler, on behalf of USA Today, wrote the informative article discussing how these medical mistakes cost victims...
Last week, a South Dakota jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a woman $3.35 million for failing to adequately warn her doctor of the potential dangers of a vaginal mesh implant and for misrepresenting the product in brochures. The verdict marks the first among...
A Massachusetts family has recently been awarded $63 million against Johnson & Johnson after a young girl suffered severe side effects from taking Children's Motrin. The family of Samantha Reckis will ultimately receive $109 million with interest as the injury...
On February 22, 2013, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) posted that it notified healthcare professionals regarding a Class I recall of the LPS Diaphyseal Sleeve. The LPS Diaphyseal Sleeve is a component in the DePuy LPS System, an end-stage revision knee...
According to a recent study, hip replacements are more likely to fail in women than in men. Researchers found that although the overall risk of implants failing is low, women were 29 percent more likely than men to need a repeat hip replacement surgery within the...
The Texas Supreme Court clarified an expert report question in medical malpractice cases on Friday, February 15, 2013 in the case of Certified EMS, Inc. d/b/a CPNS Staffing vs. Potts. Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson wrote the opinion which involved a patient who...
On January 25, 2013, opening statements began in a trial that will likely have major implications on more than 10,000 lawsuits filed against Johnson & Johnson. The case of Kransky v. DePuy, et.al. is the first of many impending claims against Johnson & Johnson...
Once again, the Texas Supreme Court has disregarded a jury's verdict in a health care case and ruled against the loved ones of a psychiatric patient. The decision came in a suit entitled Rodriguez-Escobar v. Goss, ___ S.W.3d ___ (Tex. 2013).In the Goss case, Dr....
In an article published just yesterday by The New York Times, we learned that newly disclosed court records show that Johnson & Johnson, and its subsidiary DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc., were aware of an alarmingly high failure rate in their metal on metal hip implants...
I recently read an article that gave several tips about medical care that may be helpful. The publication was from the Bottom Line - Personal, and it was in the January 15, 2013 edition. The first tip was for the patient to check out the experience of the surgeon....
According to the Los Angeles Times, a heart surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center inadvertently infected five patients during valve replacement surgeries earlier this year, causing four of the patients to need a second operation.The infections occurred after tiny...
In a recent ruling, the Texas Supreme Court ruled in support of a patient's jury verdict against a chiropractor. The case is Felton v. Lovett, ___ S.W.3d ___ (Tex. 2012).In Felton, the patient had sought treatment for neck pain from a chiropractor. After two...
Dozens of lots of the generic version of the cholesterol drug Lipitor have been recalled because they may contain tiny glass particles. Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. is operating under increased scrutiny from the United States Food...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that two additional drugs made by the New England Compounding Center (NECC) were contaminated. The new drugs that have been found to be infected with multiple strands of bacteria are preservative-free betamethasone,...
Pradaxa is a prescription drug taken by many as a blood thinner (anticoagulant). This blood-thinning medication lowers the chance of blood clots forming in the body. It is commonly used for individuals who have an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation (AFib)...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported six new cases of fungal meningitis in an outbreak tied to contaminated steroid injections that has led to 25 deaths in the United States.The CDC reported three new cases in Florida, two in Ohio and one...
Following 57-year-old, Bogdan Kaniewski's, death from a heart attack, his daughter, Alexis, filed a lawsuit against Glenview fire and police departments, Cook County, and the Cook County Forest Preserve District. Mr. Kaniewski died in early September when he sustained...
Most people comparison shop when it comes to car insurance, homeowners insurance or even where the best weekly deals are to buy groceries. But how many comparison shop as carefully when it comes to choosing a doctor or a hospital?A surgeon at John Hopkins Hospital in...
It is estimated that there are 4,000 cases of "retained surgical items" reported in the United States on an annual basis. And many think that this number is way too low. In a recent article, the New York Times analyzed the method used by surgical teams to avoid...
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Michele Pelter has filed suit against 1-800-GET-THIN (a marketing firm) and the health care providers who performed a 2011 Lap-Band surgery on her sister, Paula Rojeski. Rojeski was 55 years old when went in for the Lap-Band...
Recently, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that the claims of two female patients against a doctor who fondled them may be entitled to the protections provided by the statute that governs medical malpractice cases.The Court's opinion was issued in Loaisiga v. Cerda, ___...
According to a Wolters Klewer Health poll, which surveyed 1,000 American adults, nearly three-quarters of patients say they are concerned about the potential for medical errors. Three in ten patients said they had experience with a medical error, either personally or...
According to a recent article in NaturalNews, pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has admitted to hundreds of millions of dollars in payoffs to doctors. Eli Lilly, founded in Indiana, makes billions of dollars every year off the sale of their patented drugs, which...
A Jefferson Parish jury has awarded a woman $24.2 million in damages in a medical malpractice lawsuit against Abbott Laboratories and Hospira, Inc. Jurors found that her toddler son, 3 years old at the time of surgery, was left with irreversible brain damage after an...
The Supreme Court of Missouri issued an opinion rejecting medical malpractice caps, which are limitations on the amount of money that can be awarded in a medical malpractice lawsuit. Deborah Watts filed a medical malpractice suit alleging that her son, Naython Watts,...
The family of a special-needs teenage girl who died earlier this year while in the custody of the Jackson County juvenile detention center filed a wrongful death lawsuit last week. The suit names the Jackson County Family Court's detention center, Children's Mercy...
According to a recent article in the Austin American Statesman by Andrea Ball, 36% of complaints received by the Texas Department of Family & Protective Services filed by psychiatric hospital patients are not investigated. Those in charge of the agency claim the...
NuvaRing is a popular internal birth control device, which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2001 and marketed and sold by subsidiaries of Merck, Organon USA Inc. and Schering-Plough. Currently, over a thousand NuvaRing lawsuits have been filed...
A doctor accused of performing unauthorized research at a public psychiatric hospital recently resigned after being accused by stated officials of making a DVD in which patients were videotaped against their will and identified without permission as part of an...
In a recent small study, it was determined that bodybuilding and weight loss products are the types of dietary supplements that are most likely to cause liver injuries. The study, funded by the United States Drug - Induced Liver Injury Network, reviewed 109 cases of...
Families entrust the care of their loved ones to nursing homes, assuming that they will be cared for and protected from injury. When an elderly or otherwise incapacitated individual suffers a wrongful death, family members will naturally be left wondering what went...
Last Friday, the Texas Supreme Court ruled against a patient, even though the trial court's instructions to the jury may have been in error. The case is Venkateswarlu Thota, M.D. v. Young, ___ S.W.3d ___ (Tex. 2012)(5/11/12).In Young, the patient sought care from Dr....
Fox 4 in Dallas/Forth Worth has conducted a recent investigation into the Texas Board of Medical Examiners. Fox reported that the state board that is supposed to be policing doctors and protecting the public has its critics.In 2003 Texas lawmakers put caps on medical...
Victoria Upsey, a pregnant 34-year old single mother, went to a Philadelphia hospital three years ago experiencing complications with her pregnancy. Upon checking in to the hospital, Ms. Upsey was examined by a physician without the assistance of a trained ultrasound...
Aliskiren-containing medications-including Amturnide, Tekturna, Tektuma HCT, Teamlo, and Valturna-are direct renin inhibiters used to treat hypertension. These drugs work by decreasing chemicals that cause the blood vessels to tighten. Often these drugs are used in...
New York birth injury attorneys reached a settlement agreement in a birth injury lawsuit for an amount of $4,320,000. The claim alleged defendants failed to deliver the injured infant in a timely manner, resulting in serious birth injuries.The case centered on a child...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced plans to hold a two-day expert advisory panel meeting in June to address mounting concerns about the safety of metal-on-metal hip implants. Hip replacement surgery is a common surgical procedure intended to...
In a recent editorial piece, the New York Times articulated what injured victims and plaintiffs lawyers have been saying for the last year - Congress should not allow generic drug manufacturers special protections when those manufacturers fail to warn patients of the...
According to a recent Bloomberg article, a study found that the recalled St. Jude Medical Inc. ("St. Jude") wires, still in use to connect life-saving defibrillators to the hearts of 79,000 patients, had multiple defects that led to melted conductors, electrical...
The United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has announced an urgent recall of Brilliant Blue G, distributed by Franck's Compounding Lab in Ocala, Florida. The recall has issued on March 9, 2012. According to the recall notice, Brilliant Blue G has been...
A new book written by Joe and Teresa Graedon concludes that 500,000 people are killed in the United States every year from errors that occur in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions. Their book, "Top Screwups Doctors Make and How to Avoid...
In our last blog post, we wrote about how a recent report revealed that autopsies in hospitals have virtually disappeared. And it is believed that many autopsies are not being performed because the healthcare facilities and their physicians are concerned that open up...
ProPublica recently published a widely-read report about the declining use of autopsies in hospitals. Many medical experts say action to correct this problem is long overdue.The facts are startling. On average, hospitals conduct autopsies on only 5 percent of...
A recent report published by NBC News opened with Rambha Gaijre who became desperate as her family faced eviction from their cramped, tin-roof hut if she did not repay loans soon that she used to cover life-saving medical treatment for her son. To make the money they...
According to an article published in the New York Times, ear doctors are performing face lifts. The Times reported the case of Joan, now 59, who after moving from New York to Los Angeles in 2010, believed she needed to freshen her look. As a result, she got a...
A newly released study indicates that as many as 90 percent of hospital errors may go unreported using the current method of tracking medical mistakes. This systemic under-reporting of hospital errors may have a number of detrimental effects on the quality of health...
Heart diseases are the leading cause of death in the United States and account for a large proportion of acute medical care provided by doctors across the country. But a recent study raises concerns that the majority of the doctors writing practice guidelines for...
VIRTUAL OFFICE TOUR
Take a virtual tour of our office online!
