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A Pennsylvania appeals court upheld the decision of a malpractice lawsuit win for law firm Willig Williams. The suit was brought, accusing the firm of stymieing a hospital worker’s plans to bring a medical malpractice claim against his employer for an injury he said he sustained during treatment for a previous injury suffered on the…

Media personality and Fox News reporter, Geraldo Rivera, appeared in a Manhattan Civil Court on Thursday for settlement talks for a medical malpractice lawsuit. Rivera, 72, is suing the Hospital for Special Surgery on East 70th Street after he went in for back surgery in 2010 and came out with a crippled right foot when…

The legal counsel for the plaintiff in a medical malpractice case against a physician and his employee has petitioned to be excused from his responsibility of counsel. Derek R. Layser of Layser & Freiwald in Philadelphia, motioned to the Court to be removed as attorney of record for Linda Hydro, citing “irreconcilable differences” related to…

Physician Farid Fata, MD will serve 45 years in prison and pay over $17 million after he told numerous patients that they had cancer and administered medically unnecessary chemotherapy drugs. Prosecutors were pushing for a much heavier sentence for Fata, 175 years behind bars for the Hematologist-oncologist. Prosecutors say that Fata used his medical degree…

Sometimes patients and their families will have questions as to whether or not the standard of care that they have received from a doctor, hospital or other medical facility was according to the standard of care or if the incident constitutes medical malpractice. One such example was written in to an advice column by a…

The survivors of a woman who died as a result of a methadone overdose in 2008 have been awarded $512,000 by a jury in New London Superior Court. According to court documents, Jill Procaccini, 32, died just hours after she was treated and released from the Lawrence + Memorial Hospital emergency room. Procaccini’s estate has…

A woman whose husband died as a result of gastrointestinal issues is suing the Tulane University School of Medicine and a physician employed there for medical malpractice. The lawsuit was filed by Heather Leeming, individually and on behalf of her minor child, Kobe Leeming, and her deceased husband, James D. Leeming. The lawsuit names The…

A woman whose grandson died after a diagnostic procedure that allegedly perforated his colon is suing for malpractice. According to 24th Judicial District Court documents, Emily Mae Dobard has filed a malpractice lawsuit on behalf of Terril Dobard against Ochsner Clinic Foundation, Ochsner Medical Center Westbank, Dr. Rebekah Lemann, Dr. Travis Hill and Dr. Emery…

The potential dangers surrounding a widely used blood thinning drug have again come under scrutiny in patients, doctors and families with loved ones who are on the medication. Patients, mostly those who are elderly, often are prescribed the drug Coumadin, or its generic version, Warfarin, as a blood thinner that is used to help reduce…

A patient who went to his doctor for a colonoscopy wanted to make certain that he got the instructions his doctor would give after the surgery. So he activated the record function on his smartphone. The device ended up under him and what was recorded during the procedure, he got far more than he bargained…