Articles Posted in Medical Malpractice

A woman suing a doctor, a physician’s assistant (“PA”), and a surgical center for malpractice, as a result of receiving an operation on the wrong knee, is entitled to partial summary judgment on the issue of liability, according to a Bronx judge. Following an automobile accident, the plaintiff sought treatment from Dr. Hostin, an orthopedic…

In a rare instance in the state of Wisconsin, two large medical malpractice claims have been paid. The settlements came, however, after significant legal hurdles. In Wisconsin, because of laws that are designed to limit who can sue for malpractice and how much they can collect if their case is won, it can be hard…

The attorneys for Dr. Abubakar Atiq Durrani have filed motions requesting that the hundreds of malpractice lawsuits filed against him be moved from Hamilton County to U.S. District Court. Dr. Durrani has been accused of having botched the spinal surgeries of more than 500 patients that were performed between 2007 and 2013. Dr. Durrani performed…

No doctor or medical professional wants to find him or herself the object of a medical malpractice lawsuit. However, even with the best of intentions and a commitment to the profession and art of medicine, it’s possible for anyone to have an off day or to make mistakes. Medscape recently released its Malpractice Report for…

An Atlanta psychiatrist has been arrested after 36 of his patients died. Twelve of those patients died as a result of overdosing on medication that he prescribed to them. According to the Clayton County District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson, Dr. Narendra Nagareddy’s office in Jonesboro was raided by DEA agents on Thursday. Dr. Nagareddy has…

A patient in Cook County has filed a lawsuit against a podiatrist, alleging that the physician chose the wrong course of treatment, causing the man to suffer persistent pain and limited mobility as a result. According to documents filed in Cook County District Court that were filed on January 5th, Robert Ford-Reynolds, the plaintiff in…

A dentist, like any other medical professional, has a duty to provide you with a certain standard of care. If that standard of care is not upheld, or is violated, you may have a case for medical malpractice. To have a case, you must satisfy four requirements: Duty, breach (or negligence), causation (why did it…

A couple in Evansville couple is continuing their decade-long legal fight over their claims of medical malpractice in their daughter’s birth that left her a quadriplegic and unable to speak. A Vanderburgh County jury awarded the family $15 million in damages in in 2013 for their lawsuit against a doctor and St. Mary’s Medical Center…

When it comes to the things that kill people in the United States, several causes come to mind. Drunk driving, cancer and heart disease tend to top the list in peoples’ minds. What many don’t think about is doctors. Doctors help and heal us, don’t they? In most cases, the answer is yes. But doctors…

When someone says “medical malpractice,” what comes to your mind? If you are like most people, your mind immediately jumps to misdiagnosis or even surgical errors. What many people don’t consider is that medication errors comprise a large majority of medical malpractice cases. A study conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital, a Harvard affiliate and one…