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Two women died on the operating table at Harborview Medical Center in Washington state. Their families are suing the surgeon and the hospital itself, claiming medical malpractice. According to reports that have been released, Reba Golden was building an addition on her home in Honduras. She fell two floors to the ground, hurting her back…

Last week, a jury in Alabama returned a $20 million verdict against a local rehabilitation hospital. According to reports, an Etowah County jury determined that a woman had received an overdose of opiates while a patient at HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital. Even though the opiates were non-prescription, the overdose caused the woman to suffer with decreased…

On May 11, 2016, an appeals court in Pennsylvania upheld a $3 million verdict against Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson was found liable in a birth injury case filed by a mother who had taken Topamax during her pregnancy. Parents Kelly and Brian Anderson sued the pharmaceutical company in the Court…

Harvey Hospital is being sued by an estate administrator who is claiming that the hospital was negligent and caused a relative’s death. The independent executor of Gwendolyn Davis’ estate, Lynn M. Hubbard, filed the lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court on May 4. Named in the lawsuit is Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey. The suit…

Melissa Rivers, daughter of the late Joan Rivers, has settled the medical malpractice lawsuit she filed after her mother’s death in 2014. Rivers had sued Yorksville Endoscopy Center in New York. It was at the center that her mother had been undergoing surgery when she went into cardiac arrest. The elder Rivers died a week…

Russel Farnsworth was fired from his job for using too many sick days. Every morning, when he could, he went to work with a pounding headache. He worked through the pain while sitting at his desk, only to stand and feel as though he had pinched nerves in his back. According to Farnsworth, he began…

The University of Pennsylvania has been hit with a $44.1 million verdict after a court found that hospital staff failed to recognize a patient’s adverse reaction to heparin, an anti-coagulant medication. As a result of the reaction, the female patient suffered a brain hemorrhage. The verdict came down last month, with the jury finding the…

A man in California is suing a Fremont nursing home, claiming that staff ignored his needs and withheld necessary care. According to reports, Mark Sandholdt is claiming that Windsor Country Drive Care Center did not meet his medical needs and continuously harassed him for money he didn’t owe. The home is being sued for financial…

When you trust the care of an elderly loved one to a nursing home or assisted living facility, you do so with the assumption that they will be kept safe and as healthy as possible. Unfortunately, that isn’t what always happens as a family in Florida recently discovered. On April 30, police were called to…

A jury recently awarded a $4 million verdict to a woman from Troy, Texas. The woman had filed suit against Noland Hospital after her father suffered a fall and died while in the care of the medical facility. According to reports, Thomas Doster, 77, was in the care of Noland Hospital’s long-term care facility. He…