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A widow has initiated a lawsuit against two Buffalo-area hospitals after the death of her husband. According to court documents filed in Monroe County,. Tammy Cleveland says her husband, Michael, was still alive when an emergency room doctor declared him dead last year. Cleveland claims in her suit that if the medical staff had listened…

A medical malpractice lawsuit has been brought by a Colinsville, IL couple against an area hospital and a medical supply company in what they claim was a botched hip surgery. According to court documents filed in Madison County Circuit Court on September 19th, Ronald and Stella Vivoid have filed their medical malpractice lawsuit naming Hoemedica…

A malpractice lawsuit has been filed by a Cook County patient against her health care providers alleging malpractice. Cook County court documents indicate that Jane Filip filed a lawsuit on September 16 in Cook County Circuit Court naming Dr. Scott Glaser, Pain Specialists of Greater Chicago, Dr. Anthony DiGianfilippo, West Suburban Neurosurgical Associates, Adventist Hinsdale…

A jury has sided with the defendant in a dental malpractice trial, Lacalamita v. Magid, that took place this week in Kings County Civil Court. In the court documents, the plaintiff, Jeanine Lacalamita suffered from severe headaches, vertigo and dizziness before visiting the offices of dentist Michelle Magid, DDS, in May 2010 for a cracked…

A Jefferson County jury has awarded the plaintiff in a medical malpractice suit the sum of $3.7 million. This may be the largest settlement that has ever been granted in the county in such a lawsuit. The plaintiff, Marie Clayton alleged both wrongful death and medical malpractice for her husband, Robert Clayton, who died December…

A Texas physician is currently looking at a potential decade in jail and having to pay $2 million in fines after a recent lawsuit. According to court records, Robert Hadley Gross, MD, a licensed psychiatrist based out of San Angelo, Texas, has pleaded guilty last week to one count of healthcare fraud in association with…

A patient has filed a malpractice lawsuit against a doctor and two related health care businesses following a cervical spine surgery. Rita Vazquez filed a lawsuit last month on September 21 in Cook County Circuit Court, Law Division. The lawsuit names Dr. Michel H. Malek, the Illinois Spine Institute and United Surgical Assistants Inc., also…

A man whose sister died 12 years ago after undergoing breast implant surgery at a doctor’s office is driven to try to make medicine safer for patients by putting cameras in operating rooms. Wade Ayer lost his sister, Julie Ayer Rubenzer, 38, when she died in a Brookfield nursing home on Dec. 26, 2003. Her…

The widow of a military veteran who died as a result of kidney failure after having been prescribed a medication has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Charlie Norwood Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The plaintiff, Janice L. Allen, filed the suit in U.S. District Court on September 15 on behalf of her husband, Lional…

A woman has been awarded $1.2 million after being injured at an Edwardsville surgery center. Also named in the malpractice suit is Granite City Illinois Hospital Co., which operates the surgery center. Connie Duft of Maryville, along with her husband, Ronald Duft, allege that Connie Duft became disabled after a back pain procedure was performed…