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Created: 22 April 2016 Mahoney Law, PLLC in Boise settled a birth injury case against the United States for $7.2 million. The case involved negligent care provided at a local, federally funded clinic, hence the case was brought against the clinic via the United States under the provisions of the Federal Tort Claims Act. The case involved mishandled prenatal care…
Created: 21 October 2014 Mahoney Law is pleased to report that we recently obtained a $500,000 insurance policy limits settlement in a case involving a 4-wheeler ATV rollover accident. Our client’s pelvis was crushed in the ATV 4-wheeler rollover. We were able to obtain the insurance policy maximum from the at fault driver by thoroughly documenting and presenting our client’s…
Created: 18 March 2014 The New York Daily News has reported that a 34 year old Brooklyn mom who lost her legs in a botched procedure was awarded $62 million. The patient went in for what should have been a routine procedure (a laparoscopic removal of an ectopic pregnancy), but developed a catasrophic infection resulting in the amputation of both…
Created: 11 December 2013 $50M awarded over birth defect; test said baby would be OK The Seattle Times is reporting that a King County jury awarded $50 million to a couple whose son was born with profound mental and physical disabilities after concluding that Valley Medical Center and LabCorp mishandled a genetic test. View the full article at The Seattle…
Created: 09 October 2012 This summer, a Maryland jury awarded $20.9 million in a case involving a negligently handled shoulder dystocia during labor and delivery. In this case of obstetrical malpractice, a six year old boy had suffered permanent paralysis in his left arm when the obsterician pulled on his head during delivery. The young boy’s arm is now described…
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…