Articles Posted in Medical Malpractice

A three-and-a-half-year-old girl is blind and has cerebral palsy after she was given 100 times the dose of nutrients 15 days after she was born in 2007, claimed the lawsuit filed in Lee County by her parents. The family has been awarded $19.2 million in the suit that could be the first of its kind for Lee County, reports station 2RSWFlorida.

PostStar.com reports a Warren County state Supreme Court has found a doctor should pay $3 million for injuries a now 18-year-old girl suffered during her birth.

The Louisiana Record reports a lawsuit has been filed in federal court in New Orleans against Ochsner Clinic Foundation by a former patient over a surgical sponge left in his abdomen following surgery for rectal cancer.

Florida’s Sun Sentinel reports a 45-year-old man who was diagnosed in 2004 with Lyme disease later learned he was suffering from a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and that the cancer had spread.

Dr. John Henry Fairbanks has been ordered to pay a Natchez man $511,000 for medical bills and suffering caused by his negligence during knee replacement surgery, reports the Natchez Democrat.

A woman formerly from New Hampshire is suing two doctors and St. Joseph’s Hospital in Nashua for $5 million alleging they failed to diagnose and treat her bacterial meningitis which left her permanently disabled, reports The Telegraph.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports a Pilsen woman has been awarded $3.27 million by a Cook County jury in her lawsuit against the Northwestern Memorial Physicians Group and the doctor who delivered her baby.

The family of a 36-year-old woman who bled to death after having her first child by caesarean section has been awarded $4.6 million by a Wright County jury, reports the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

The News-Castle, of central Illinois, reports a Champaign County judge has approved a $12 million out-of-court settlement for a woman who was left severely brain-damaged during her labor on December 27, 2002.

An Indiana woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against a licensed nurse practitioner and The Louisiana Medical Center and Heart Hospital regarding the death of her husband, reports the Louisiana Record.