Posts tagged malpractice

• Indiana Jury Awards $3.7M in Botched Birth

  Chrissie Cole | March 09, 2008 12:55 PM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A Marion County jury awarded a woman and her daughter $3.7 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit from the girl's botched birth.The lawsuit claimed that her daughter, now 6, will live with cerebral palsy for the duration of her life due to delays during delivery that deprived her brain of enough oxygen. She was born in October 2001, in St. Vincent Hospital, in Indianapolis.Indiana caps medical...

• Indiana Doctors and Hospitals to get Payment Break for Malpractice Fund

  Chrissie Cole | February 18, 2008 11:05 PM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Starting next month, Indiana hospitals and doctors will receive a break on the rates they pay out to support a medical malpractice payout fund. It is unlikely that patient bills will decrease due to the reduction.On March 1st, Patient's Compensation Fund rates will be reduced by 19 percent for doctors and 1 percent for hospitals, according to the State Department of Insurance. The fund was...

• Indiana Department of Insurance Announces Lower Medical Malpractice Rates in 2008

  Chrissie Cole | December 15, 2007 12:07 AM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The Indiana Department of Justice (IDOI) recently announced, effective March 1, 2008, the Patient's Compensation Fund (PCF) surcharge rates will be lowered by 19.1 percent for doctors and 1.3 percent for hospitals.This is the first medical malpractice insurance reduction for hospitals and doctors since the PCF's launch in 1976. The recent reductions are attributed to an increase in efficiencies...

• Opposing Laws may Determine Medical Malpractice Case

  Chrissie Cole | November 12, 2007 10:35 AM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Conflicting laws may decide if the estate of an Allen County woman can sue a Fort Wayne nursing home for medical malpractice that resulted in her death. The arguments went before the Indiana Court of Appeals on Monday.The woman, 68, was living in the Bethlehem Woods Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, in September 2001, when workers at the facility allegedly left her on a bedpan for over six...

• Jury Awards Mother $8M in Medical Malpractice Suit

  Chrissie Cole | October 25, 2007 5:12 PM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A jury awarded almost $8 million to a mother and her 5-year-old son, Thursday, in a medical malpractice suit against Central Maine Medical Center and one of its midwives.The mother claimed her midwife and the hospital should have recommended an emergency cesarean section, in April 2002, when her baby appeared to be in distress. The baby was born with cerebral palsy due to lack of blood and...

• Jury Awards Mother $13 Million in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

  Chrissie Cole | September 12, 2007 4:57 PM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A Polk County jury has awarded the mother of a four-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, over $13 million dollars, in a medical malpractice agreement reached yesterday. The mother claims doctors at Broadlawns Medical Center are the blame for her son's condition.While preparing the woman for a caesarian birth, she says the doctors stopped monitoring her baby's heartbeat. A spinal anesthetic used...

• Jury Finds Against Weis in Medical Malpractice Suit

  Chrissie Cole | July 27, 2007 12:22 AM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A jury found against Notre Dame Coach Charlie Weis in a medical malpractice lawsuit against two doctors he alleges botched his care following a gastric bypass surgery procedure he had five years ago.The jury deliberated for three hours on Tuesday before deciding two Massachusetts General Hospital surgeons were not negligent.Weis accused the surgeons of negligence for allowing him to bleed...

• Study Shows Pediatricians Rarely Lose Malpractice Lawsuits

  Chrissie Cole | July 02, 2007 9:49 AM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A new study by Indiana University researchers says pediatricians rarely lose medical malpractice lawsuits.Despite concerns about the increase in lawsuits, the study found that claims against pediatricians have remained stable across two decades. Additionally, these types of cases tend not to make it to trial.Sixty-eight percent of the cases brought against pediatricians in the last two decades...

• Student Cleared in Surgery Case

  Christina Cole | May 22, 2007 10:54 PM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  A University of Saint Francis student in the emergency medical technician program at Parkview Hospital, cannot be sued for participating in a botched procedure, ruled the Indiana Supreme Court, on Wednesday.However, a medical malpractice lawsuit can proceed against the two doctors and their individual practices.The patient proceeded with a lawsuit after the student tore her esophagus during a...

• "Liability Crisis" Survey fares well for Indiana

  Christina Cole | January 02, 2007 12:58 PM | 0 CommentsBloomington, IN Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The American Medical Association says that Indiana is relatively doctor-friendly in comparison when it comes to state laws that govern malpractice suits and medical liability.The AMA says the Hoosier state is among eight other states in "stable" condition in what it describes as the country in a "medical liability crisis."The survey claims excessive malpractice awards are forcing doctors out of...