Posts tagged medical malpractice

• Compulsive Gambling and Mirapex Verdict $8.2 Million

  Eddie Farah | August 02, 2008 1:33 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A drug given to treat Parkinson’s disease and restless leg syndrome is the focus of a number of trials underway in the District Court of Minneapolis. More than 200 plaintiffs are taking their case...

• Orange Park Medical Center Sued

  Eddie Farah | December 01, 2006 7:47 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  An Orange Park, Florida family intends on filing a"> lawsuit against the Orange Park Medical Center for a do no resuscitate order.Hector Soto-Velez, age 82, went to the OP Medical Center hospital with complains of ankle pain. On Christmas morning 2005, three days later, he died of acute respiratory failure. Hospital records reflected he heart rate dropped slowly after given pain killer or...

• What Happened Before Man Jumped Off The Carnival Sensation

  Eddie Farah | September 04, 2009 1:34 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Martha Jackson, a passenger on the Carnival Sensation, returning from four nights in the Bahamas, heard the splash. A 34-year-old unidentified man from Philadelphia jumped from his sixth-deck suite...

• Dirty Surgery Instruments

  Eddie Farah | January 13, 2007 7:35 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Last November Jennifer Backman, a Navy wife gave the government a notice of intent to file a $5 million suit against the government. The allegations allege Navy surgeons at the Naval Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida used unsterilized instruments during an operation. The hospital's commanding officer, Capt. Raquel Bono, denied such claims, stating, "We would never use dirty or contaminated...

• Medical Malpractice Payouts Don't Add Up To "Crisis"

  Bob Carroll | July 08, 2006 7:06 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  All of us have experienced the unbelievable increases in homeowner's insurance premiums over the last 10 years. We would all probably agree it is a crisis. The insurance industry responds by citing the increased payouts over the same period which have made the higher premiums necessary. Meanwhile, during the same period, the medical profession has also been experiencing large increases in...

• "Patients for Fair Compensation" -- Who Do They Really Care About?

  John Hopkins | December 16, 2011 10:25 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It’s the newest fad. Form a group. Name the group something that sounds very, very consumer friendly. Draft a message that sounds like the group is out to protect consumers and regular...

• MRSA Infection Lawsuits

  Bob Carroll | October 25, 2006 6:28 PM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  As hospital-acquired infections continue to kill patients in the U.S. it is the threat of lawsuits which may force steps to find and eradicate the organisms.The biggest push for search and destroy may come, sadly, from the threat of lawsuits. Several large ones have been settled with hospitals where patients died of infections.This is the way Slate reports the largely unchecked spread of...

• UF Shands Admits Guilt in 3-yr-old's Death

  Eddie Farah | October 27, 2007 6:48 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  If an apology would be forthcoming when a hospital does wrong- I'd have less business. And that would be okay because it's the right thing for a hospital to do. When UF Shands gave medication to a 3-year-old that was ten times stronger that what was originally prescribed, the boy died. This happened October 10, 2007.Instead of running for cover, getting their ducks in a row, hiring lawyers and...

• Undiagnosed Pneumonia In The ER

  Bob Carroll | February 08, 2007 6:24 AM | 0 CommentsPinellas, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A failure to diagnose and treat pneumonia caused a softball-sized hole in a lung and the death of a Rhode Island woman.The ER doctor missed the signs of bacterial infection and sent the patient home without any treatment.Family awarded $21.5 million in malpractice casePROVIDENCE -- A jury on Tuesday awarded $21.5 million to the family of a Newport woman, concluding that the 34-year-old mother of...

• Old Surgeons Not a Problem

  Robert Blanchard | December 04, 2006 10:05 AM | 1 CommentPensacola, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  When you need complex cardiovascular or cancer surgery, you have to choose a surgeon and many patients may select an older physician, assuming his experience may be needed. New research says they are right - experience helps. A study designed to address this issue used approximately 461,000 Medicare records to assess the association between age of the listed operator and surgical mortality. For...