Legal and Malpractice Corner

Clinic and Doc Must Pay Millions After Faulty Hernia Surgery A patient sustained a perforated bowel and other serious complications after a flawed hernia operation; also a patient’s sister claims lack of knowledge of morcellator risks.
News, September 22, 2022
Missed Diagnosis Leads to $111 Million Award for Damaged Leg Jurors award a record verdict to a patient after treatment of his broken leg goes wrong.
News, June 16, 2022
Anesthesiologist Is Punished for Standard of Care Lapses The Florida Board of Medicine fined and imposed other obligations on a physician accused of medical malpractice in the death of a patient.
News, May 24, 2022
Doctor Accused of 'Fraudulent Concealment' Can't Be Held Liable Claim against hospital is halted as well.
News, May 18, 2022
Doc Fails to Order Crucial Tests; Paralyzed Pt Wins $17M Jury cites failure to order crucial pre-op and post-op tests; provider-to-provider disputes not time sensitive, state high court says; paralyzed patient seeks millions.
News, April 13, 2022
Single, Childless Adults Worth Less Than Married With Children? Neurologist and ophthalmologist are both sued; game show star dies following colon surgery; wrongful-death law up for debate once again.
News, February 16, 2022
Doctor's Illegal Opioid Prescriptions Lead to 5 Deaths: Officials Alaskan family physician sentenced to 34 months in prison, probation; Texas hospital CEO and seven docs settle kickback allegations; practice administrator sentenced for fraudulent prescriptions.
News, January 26, 2022
Doc's Botched Surgery Leads to Incontinence and $10M Lawsuit Care departed from 'good and accepted medical practice,' jury says; troubled physician finally surrenders his license; delayed diagnosis prompts med-mal suit.
News, January 19, 2022
Pill Mill Psychiatrist Gets Prison; Must Forfeit Cash, Cars Doc gave undercover 'patients' unnecessary opioids; internist pleads guilty to unlawful prescriptions leading to patient's death; former pharma CEO charged with embezzlement; more.
News, December 20, 2021
Mistake: Doc Does Vasectomy Instead of Circumcision; More Appeals court tosses out one claim, retains another; jury exceeds state cap in infant head-trauma case; university's negligence caused them unnecessary suffering, women claim.
News, December 15, 2021
Neurologist Guilty of Overprescribing Thousands of Painkillers
News, November 22, 2021
Pharma Rep Admits to Money Laundering, Obstruction of Justice New Jersey man set up side business to distribute unnecessary compounded medications; pair charged with selling fraudulent nursing diplomas, certificates; more.
News, November 03, 2021
Accused: Doc Enhances Patient's Penis With Improper Fillers; More Charges include multiple breaches of proper medical conduct; doctor's failure to diagnose results in an award of more than $6 million; botched outpatient procedure leaves woman disfigured.
News, October 27, 2021
Patient Loses Prostate After Biopsy Slide Switched; More Biopsy slides mistakenly switched; fertility specialist uses own sperm to impregnate patients; parents say daughter's stroke wasn't identified.
News, October 19, 2021
Groups Challenge Antitrust Charges Against DaVita Inc, Former CEO DaVita and former CEO Kent Thiry face federal labor market collusion charges; record Medicare fraud scheme involved kickbacks, bribes from DME suppliers; more.
News, October 13, 2021
Fraudulent Misbranding of PPE Nets $22 Million Settlement Company sold $9 million in mislabeled surgical gowns; medical device company to pay nearly $39 million for allegedly selling defective diagnostic devices; more
News, September 28, 2021
Doctors Preyed on Homeless for Slip-and-Fall Schemes; More Physicians and lawyers together recruited homeless people and drug addicts to scam insurance companies. Do sales reps belong in the operating room? This high-risk specialty lowered its claim rates.
News, September 21, 2021
Whistle-blowers Lead to Multimillion Dollar Fraud Settlements Cleveland Clinic–owned facility to pay $21 million after fired employee raised issues with physician arrangements; contractor reports kickback arrangement against Florida clinics; more.
News, September 08, 2021
Discharged Snowboarder Dies of Internal Bleeding; Hospital Sued A hospital discharges an injured snowboarder who then dies of internal bleeding; a toddler dies when his rare disease is not diagnosed; actions against docs who lie about their vaccination status.
News, August 31, 2021
After Five Fatal Overdoses, Doctor Sentenced for Unlawful Prescriptions; More Doctor fled Tennessee to avoid state punishment, but faced federal charges; judge approves $15M settlement over rape of incapacitated patient; more.
News, August 26, 2021

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