Posts tagged malpractice

• Infant Son's Death Case Settled With Naval Hospital

  Eddie Farah | July 05, 2007 11:19 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Thomas and Jessica Hugaboom say they just didn't want to go to trial.Instead, the couple has settled their 7-month old son's death with the Jacksonville Naval Hospital for $900,000.The court records show the Hubagooms visited the hospital's emergency room three times with their infant son, Michael, while Thomas was stationed at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station.While the baby's condition...

• Majority of Medical Malpractice Cases Close without Compensation Payments

  Evan Rosen | June 29, 2007 6:46 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Contrary to all the hype we hear in the news about a Medical Malpractice crisis, a recent report done by the US Department of Justice found that the majority of medical malpractice cases get resolved without a doctor or insurance company having to pay a dime. In Florida, two-thirds were closed out with a payout of less than $250,000 and only 10% resulted in a payout over one million.For more...

• Man Sues Naval Hospital After Wife's Death

  Eddie Farah | June 19, 2007 6:23 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  "My life has changed- my wife is gone."That what Archibal Coaile says about his wife of 30 years, Rosario, who died after doctors at the hospital failed to recognize and treat a brain aneurysm, which he alleges killed her in December, 2005.In announcing a $17 million lawsuit, Coaile said his 58-year old wife should be alive today and would be if emergency room doctors had properly evaluated her....

• Florida Ranks 35th in Discipline of Bad Doctors

  Eddie Farah | June 15, 2007 1:18 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  It's not a very good record by any definition. Florida's Board of Medicine has a poor showing in efforts to crack down on doctors who harm patients.The survey comes from Public Citizen, the watchdog group founded by Ralph Nader and based in Washington, D.C. Florida ranks 35th in serious disciplinary action per 1,000 physicians, as surveyed from 2004 through 2006. That below-average ranking is...

• Doctor Shortage is a Myth

  Staff Writer | June 06, 2007 12:41 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A trial attorney recently published an article in the Arizona Republic calling the alleged doctor shortage a myth and backing his claims up with some interesting facts. Here is an exerpt. It's an interesting read.This deception is not an accident. It is part of a coordinated effort by industry giants to mislead and deceive the public. In 2003, what then was called the General Accounting Office...

• Stronger Suicide Warnings Urged For Youth on Antidepressants

  Eddie Farah | May 02, 2007 1:58 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Add a new word to your vocabulary.Suicidality. That is the thought of wanting to commit suicide. And it's not news to hear about young people on antidepressants entertaining the thought of suicide. Some are even successful.Now, for the second time in two years, the FDA is asking manufacturers to toughen up their "black box" warnings on labels, this time to specifically warn about suicidality...

• House Awards Millions in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

  Christina Cole | April 26, 2007 5:41 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A Broward family and a girl left paralyzed after spinal cord surgery, may soon be able to claim their medical malpractice award.Following surgery in 1989, the girl was left paralyzed from the waist down after an operation on her spine when she was only six months old. She was born with spina bifada, a congential defect in which the spinal cord fails to properly close.In 1999, a jury found the...

• Medical Malpractice Insurance Companies, Not Lawsuits Cause High Rates

  Evan Rosen | April 12, 2007 3:24 PM | 0 CommentsFort Lauderdale, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  It seems the Insurance Industry is running out of excuses. They blamed the trial lawyers and so called frivolous lawsuits. They lobbied the legislature to change our "unfair" laws and got those changes passed but after years of change, capping both lawyer fees and pain and suffering damages for injured victims of medical negligence, medical malpractice rates still haven't gone down. This...

• Woman with Flesh-Eating Illness Files Medical Malpractice Suit

  Christina Cole | April 02, 2007 12:50 AM | 0 CommentsCentral Florida, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  After developing a flesh-eating bacteria following childbirth that caused a Central Florida woman to lose her arms and legs, she is suing Orlando Regional South Seminole Hospital alleging medical malpractice.The woman, 23, went to Orlando Regional South Seminole Hospital to deliver her son. After giving birth, doctors told her she had contracted a flesh-eating bacteria and amputation was her...

• Study Finds Most Angioplasties Unnecessary

  Eddie Farah | March 26, 2007 5:01 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  You are having chest pains and emergency room doctors believe it's a heart attack.Most commonly they turn to angioplasty - a procedure that inserts a tiny balloon into a block heart artery and inflates it so a stent can be permanently placed there.A new landmark study says about half a million of these procedures are unnecessary--the results could be as easily achieved with drugs. The findings...