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Created: 03 July 2012 A Maryland jury has awarded $55 million to a local couple in a medical malpractice lawsuit against Johns Hopkins Hospital for events surrounding the birth of their son. According to the lawsuit, the woman was rushed to the hospital for an emergency Caesarean section, but was then forced to wait two hours to have the procedure.…
Created: 04 June 2012 A jury awarded a San Luis Obispo couple more than $74 million against a doctor Friday on behalf of their baby daughter — finding that the physician was negligent in the delivery of the baby girl who developed cerebral palsy. After two days of deliberation, a jury of eight women and four men found that Dr.…
Created: 09 May 2012 A Philadelphia jury has awarded $78.5 million to a local woman whose child suffers from cerebral palsy due to “faulty diagnostic procedures” at the hospital in which he was born. In 2008, the woman went to Pottstown Memorial Medical Center with pregnancy complications. Hospital staff waited 81 minutes to deliver her baby, but the suit contended…
Created: 03 May 2012 A $7.8 billion agreement with BP has received preliminary approval to settle a class-action suit which would resolve more than 100,000 individual and business claims derived from the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The agreement covers economic, property and medical claims, but not ones from the U.S. government or Gulf Coast states. A…
Created: 19 April 2012 A school district in New Jersey will pay $4.2 million to a middle school student who was paralyzed from the waist down after being punched in the stomach by a bully. The punch caused a clot, keeping blood from reaching lower areas of the spine. The suit claims the bully was a known aggressor in the…
Created: 16 April 2012 A 90-year-old Montana woman has been awarded $34.2 million in a lawsuit against her insurance company after the company ended her assisted living benefits. The insurance company stopped payments in 2010 because a doctor found the woman was no longer “severely” impaired, but the lawsuit argued the company misapplied the rules of her policy. Wire Report,…
Created: 13 April 2012 The New York Presbyterian Hospital has agreed to settle a $5.3 million lawsuit with a local family over the premature birth of a child with quadriplegic cerebral palsy. The lawsuit claimed nurses and doctors did not take enough steps “to prevent premature birth” during the woman’s several visits before the child was born. Reuters 04/13/2012
Created: 12 April 2012 A Chicago couple will receive $8.25 million to settle a lawsuit filed against a local hospital over the death of their infant son. The infant, born extremely premature in September 2010, was accidentally given a fatal dose of sodium chloride in an IV.
Created: 02 April 2012 A $4.2 million verdict has been awarded to a Pennsylvania couple in a medical malpractice lawsuit against a physician at the Moses Taylor Hospital. The jury ruled the physician was negligent in the treatment of Sandra J. Powell, who was admitted to the hospital in 2003 after suffering multiple strokes. The suit alleged the doctor should…
Created: 05 March 2012 A Brooklyn woman has been awarded $17.9 million in a lawsuit she filed against the city and the Brooklyn Hospital Center for a failed diagnosis that forced the amputation of both her feet and hands. In 2008, she was diagnosed with kidney stones after a short stint in the ER and sent home. The next day,…