A wrongful death case against a former doctor will have a new trial after the Utah Supreme Court overturned the $3 million verdict. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that the Supreme Court ruled this week that Paul Ray Taylor’s felony …
Playboy Enterprises Inc. claims Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP committed malpractice by not advising it to settle a retaliatory-firing lawsuit. The case is anything but salacious. Catherine Zulfer initially sued Playboy in 2012, alleging she was fired for refusing …
An Arapahoe County, Colo. jury has handed down a $17.8 million malpractice judgment against Children’s Hospital Colorado after finding the hospital’s staff was responsible for giving the wrong dose of medication to a 4-day-old girl. The Denver Post reported Naomi …
Is an insurance agent a “professional” when it comes to whether or not he or she may be charged with malpractice? Not necessarily, a Michigan state appeals court has said. The Michigan Court of Appeals made that determination in a …
Hours after Dallas Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan died, his family called for an investigation into his care as top infectious disease doctors said he may have survived if his treatment had begun earlier. The family cited his initial release …
An Oregon gynecologist who removed a patient’s healthy ovary and left a piece of plastic in her body after a 2007 robotic surgery has been ordered to pay more than $100,000. The Mail Tribune newspaper reported that U.S. District Court …
Attorneys for the family of a 33-year-old Hawaii man who claimed his toe infection turned deadly because of negligent treatment at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center said a $2.5 million settlement has been reached. Attorneys for Chad Kitayama’s fiancee …
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $7.5 million payment to a toddler who was born with a brain injury at a county-run hospital to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit. The lawsuit filed on behalf of the 18-month-old …
When former model and philanthropist Phyllis Harvey died last year at the age of 59, little note was taken. Brief paid obituaries appeared in Los Angeles and her hometown paper in North Carolina. There was no mention of how she …
About 80 malpractice claims that forced an Alamogordo hospital to seek bankruptcy court protection last summer have been settled for more than $33 million. The Albuquerque Journal reported that that settlement lets the Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center, the largest …
