Posts tagged malpractice

• Magna Bank Finishes Presenting Evidence in Legal Malpractice Lawsuit

  Chrissie Cole | March 07, 2008 2:35 AM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Magna Bank has finished highliting evidence in a legal malpractice lawsuit against Thompson Coburn after four weeks of testimony.The trial, which was on a three-day hiatus so presiding Judge Daniel J. Stack could attend a judicial conference in Chicago, resumed March 6. And in an odd twist Magna's lead lawyer, Rex Carr, was called to testify as a witness for the defense.Carr was asked several...

• Man Awarded $24 Million in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

  Chrissie Cole | March 01, 2008 3:17 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A Streator man was awarded nearly $24 million in a medical malpractice case for brain damage he suffered while in the hospital to have a kidney stone removed, according to court records regarding the case.In 2001, the man, who is now 34, was in St. Mary's Hospital to have a kidney stone removed. While in the hospital's care he suffered cardiac arrest which cut off the flow of oxygen to his...

• Doctors are the Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S. according to JAMA Article

  Tedford Taylor | May 24, 2007 5:45 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Liability reform to stop medical malpractice junk lawsuits, the subject of a Courier-Journal opinion piece, fell on deaf ears last week in light of an article printed in the Journal of the American Medical Association which reports doctors are the third leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for more than 250,000 deaths annually. This flies in the face of the myth that tort...

• Doctor must Pay $9M for Patient Death

  Christina Cole | December 13, 2006 1:33 AM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A Miami-Dade Circuit Court jury has held a Miami Doctor liable for $9 million dollars in damages in the death of a patient. The case involves Dr. Carmel Barrau. Jessie Sturdivant was his patient in 1999. On Thursday, Jay Cohen, of the Miami firm of Grossman and Roth won the judgment on behalf of Sturdivant's wife. The attorney said his next step is to file a bad faith claim against Barrau's...

• A Shocking Report Relating To Medication Errors

  Tom Methvin | October 10, 2006 2:24 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  I was shocked to learn that medication errors harm 1.5 million people and kill several thousand each year in the United States, costing the nation at least $3.5 billion annually. While I knew that the error rate was fairly high, I certainly didn't realize how bad it actually was. The Institute of Medicine, the nation's most prestigious medical advisory organization, released a report,...

• Widespread Medication Errors Affect Millions

  Staff Writer | July 23, 2006 2:16 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The Institute of Medicine performed a research study that found approximately 1.5 million people are harmed from errors in prescribing, dispensing, and taking of medication. The report stated that errors could be prevented with improved prescription technology, disclosure of drug information, and packaging. Over $3.5 billion is spent treating drug-related injuries annually, according to report...