Medical Malpractice

In a case of possible medical malpractice a surgeon operated on the wrong eye of a 4-year-old boy who was supposed to undergo corrective surgery. The parents and young boy will have to wait at least five weeks before the...

A woman who had plastic surgery on her eyelids is no longer able to fully close them because of the surgery. The woman filed a medical malpractice suit against the plastic surgeon who performed the surgery, and a jury awarded...

Conducted to prevent medical malpractice exposure, an audit of the Excela Health hospital system revealed that 141 patients in 2010 received 149 coronary stent implants that may not have been medically necessary. As a result, the hospital system is providing...

Some hospitals in the United States are restricting the use of cameras in the delivery room because of safety and privacy concerns. The move has frustrated patients who say the policy infringes on their rights to record one of the...

A hospital in Bend, Oregon is being sued for medical malpractice because hospital workers failed to fully sanitize a colonoscopy scope between multiple patients' colonoscopy exams. The hospital has recognized that it did not employ every step in a six...

The case of a teenager who died as a result of contracting rabies from a transplanted kidney went before a state appeals court for argument last Tuesday. The parents of the teenager filed their medical malpractice suit against the hospital...

Ever wonder if you will have a worse quality of life after a surgery because of medical malpractice. Most people think that a surgery is undertaken to improve quality of life but surgical instruments sometimes literally get in the way....

The mother of a woman who died while in the care of the Ebensburg Center has filed a lawsuit claiming the center's medical staff and the Department of Public Welfare are responsible for the woman's wrongful death. The Ebensburg Center...

A woman from Plymouth, in northeast Pennsylvania, has brought a lawsuit against two doctors and the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital alleging that their medical malpractice resulted in, among other things, pain, anxiety, depression, and infertility. In total, she is seeking $550,000...

The family of an elderly dementia patient recently settled a medical malpractice and wrongful death suit with UPMC Montefiore for a reported $900,000. The settlement was apparently reached in a mediation session late last May and finalized just recently.The deceased...

A lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania state court alleges that a neurosurgeon performed a riskier than necessary procedure due to an inaccurate laboratory report, ultimately resulting in the death of a 14-year-old girl. The lawsuit was filed in Dauphin County and...