Posts tagged malpractice

• Funeral Home Negligence: CA Mortician Loses License

  Laura Blatt | May 17, 2007 12:32 AM | 0 CommentsNovato, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A mortician's license was indefinitely suspended for improperly storing bodies, allowing them to decay in a warehouse without proper refrigeration. Anthony Villeggiante is co-owner of Abby Chapel of the Redwoods in Rohnert Park, California. The mortuary has now been shut down. When state inspectors checked the warehouse in March, they found nine bodies. A swamp cooler and baby powder did nothing...

• Do Doctor's White Coat and Tie Cause Infection?

  Randy Walton | September 19, 2007 5:36 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  It was reported, hospitals are banning neckties, long sleeves and jewellery in an effort to stop the spread of deadly hospital-borne infections. The campaign is aimed at ambulances, primary care, mental health and care trusts, and care homes and hospices.In England, it was reported, hospitals are banning neckties, long sleeves and jewellery in an effort to stop the spread of deadly...

• Louisville Funeral Director Charged with Improperly Storing Body

  Laura Blatt | June 06, 2007 9:33 PM | 0 CommentsNovato, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Former Louisville funeral director Nathaniel Anderson has his troubles. Although his license was suspended in 2006, he was arrested last February for storing a corpse without refrigeration at his business, Anderson Funeral Services. A customer identified the deceased as her mother, and said that the body was supposed to have been cremated, according to Channel 32 News, WLKY, in...

• Effects of Medical Malpractice Caps Doubtful

  Randy Walton | October 08, 2007 1:25 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Texas is seeing the greatest influx of medical doctors it has seen in a very long time. At last count, the state has climbed to 42nd in the U.S. rankings of physician's per capita, up from a raking of 48 in 2001. Some attribute the growth to a voter approved constitutional amendment, proposition 12, which was narrowly approved by voters in 2003. Under the new law, any pain and suffering...

• Funeral Directors Charged in Human Chop Shop Case

  Clayton Kent | October 09, 2007 9:02 PM | 0 CommentsNovato, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Three funeral directors in Philadelphia were charged last week with the illegal taking and selling of body parts. Bones, skin, tendons and spines were taken from bodies without the permission of the families, and most of the "donors" were not suitable due to their age, physical condition, or because of disease. Once the body parts were taken, the bodies were then sent for cremation. The...

• Skin Cancer Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Settled for $5.7 Million

  Christina Cole | May 23, 2007 5:07 PM | 0 CommentsChico, CA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A bedridden man who filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against his doctor claiming he failed to diagnose his skin cancer was awarded $5.7million in damages by a Suerpior Court jury.The verdict is the largest medical malpractice award in California so far this year. But, the award will be cut down to $1.9 million under a state statute that limits damages in malpractice lawsuits.The man claims...

• Fatal Head Injury--$12 Million Verdict for Hospital Negligence

  Claude Wyle | February 21, 2010 6:02 AM | 0 CommentsSan Francisco, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  As a San Francisco brain injury lawyer, I was extremely satisfied by a jury’s award of $12 million for hospital malpractice on Thursday to a Southern California woman who was left in a...

• Medical Malpractice: Waiting In E.R. Can Be Deadly

  Randy Walton | October 31, 2007 7:05 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego, CA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  When 33-year-old Christopher Jones experienced pain in his chest and left arm he did what most people would do, he went to the hospital. When arrived at the Emergency Department he was told to wait until it was his turn.Mr. Jones waited and waited, for more than three hours, the he stepped outside and collapsed on the pavement. A few minutes later he was dead. Is this a wrongful...

• Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Settled for $1.6 Million

  Randy Walton | September 27, 2007 2:48 PM | 0 CommentsSan Diego County, CA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  An Illinois hospital and one of its doctors have settled a malpractice lawsuit for $1.6 million. The suit was filed after an infant died of severe constipation.Will County Circuit Judge Gerald Kinney approved the settlement Wednesday, more than three years after Shequetta Wilson filed the suit.Her son, Noah Wilson, was 5 months old when he died Sept. 26, 2002, of septic shock from untreated...

• Abby Mortuary Funeral Director Loses License

  Clayton Kent | August 31, 2007 5:19 PM | 0 CommentsNovato, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I have previously written about the allegations against and conduct of the funeral director of Abby Mortuary in Rohnert Park, California. As you may recall, this was the incident where the mortuary was storing bodies in a rented warehouse, and, in some cases, storing them without refrigeration. The State Cemetery and Funeral Bureau, which regulates funeral directors, mortuaries, embalmers, and...