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Across many parts of the medical profession, the pressure that clinicians feel in trying to avoid unnecessary tests and keep medical costs under control has led to an increased problem in diagnostic issues. This is the finding according to a leading healthcare expert who was one of the reviewers of the recently released Institute of…

The Supreme Court in New Jersey has ruled that doctors do not have to inform patients as to whether or not they have malpractice insurance for a surgery they are recommending. The high court handed down its ruling after a lawsuit filed by a patient against anesthesiologist, Richard A. Kaul. Dr. Kaul had been performing…

A former Cumberland County couple has won over $7.5 million in damages in a medical malpractice lawsuit against Owen Drive Surgical Clinic of Fayetteville after complications from a colon surgery performed in June 2010. A jury has awarded Melode Dickerson $7.24 million; $3.24 million in economic losses and $4 million for her suffering. Also awarded…

Jurors are now beginning to hear the opening arguments in a Stearns County civil malpractice lawsuit that accuses two Central Minnesota doctors of causing the death of a former Sartell police officer. According to records filed with the court, Joseph Schmitz died in March of 2014 after developing a hemorrhage in his neck while undergoing…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued draft guidelines in relation to the prescription of opioids in the treatment of patients. The agency believes that patients are too often being prescribed these painkillers and causing them to become addicted. The CDC went on to state that such overprescribing of opioids could lead to…

A settlement has been reached in which the North Breward Hospital District has agreed to pay some $69.5 million in restitution for false claims allegations made by the Department of Justice. The government alleges that the hospital district had provided above market value compensation in exchange for physician referrals therefore violating the government’s False Claims…

A Chief District Judge has denied a request for recusal of a judge assigned to a medical malpractice case against Summerlin Hospital. Ruben White, who claims malpractice led to the tuberculosis-related deaths of his wife and two daughters at the hospital asked District Court Judge Joe Hardy, Jr. to withdraw from the case because of…

Edith Gaines filed a malpractice lawsuit on September 9th against Allen M. Putterman, M.D. and Allen M. Putterman, M.D. SC. alleging that on February 15th and 17th, in 2012, the defendant performed several procedures that were related to the eye on Gaines. Gaines’ suit claims that the defendant was aware that the procedures would increase…

A former patient of Hospital Corporation of America has filed a malpractice lawsuit alleging poor trauma care that she received has now made it so that she will never again walk normally. Now, a former patient is suing HCA, claiming the poor trauma care she received means she’ll never walk normally again. Julie Fetcko and…

A Galveston man has named two doctors and a hospital in a malpractice lawsuit filed early last month. According to court documents, Godfrey A. Green of Galveston filed a malpractice lawsuit on August 7 in Galveston County District Court against the doctors, Carlos J. Jimenez and Casey Boyd Duncan and the University of Texas Medical…