Milwaukee Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Medical Malpractice

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel has recommended bolstering the warnings of the dangers of Lasik eye surgery, reports the Associated Press. The article explains that although Lasik...

Once again today, I had to turn down a potential medical malpractice case for a young adult because there was no survivor of the victim who had the legal right to pursue the claim. Under Wisconsin...

Methodist Hospital in Minnesota acknowledged that their medical staff accidentally removed the wrong organ from a patient. Dr. Samuel Carlson, chief medical officer for Park Nicollet Health Services, stated that one of the surgeons removed a patient's healthy kidney and left the cancerous one in place.The surgery was performed last Tuesday, but it wasn't until the next day that a pathologist...

After a month long trial, John Ritter's doctors were found not liable by a California jury for medical malpractice in the actor's death in 2003. The lawsuit alleged that a cardiologist misdiagnosed an aortic dissection as a heart attack, and that a radiologist failed to perform an x-ray that might have revealed the dissection, thus causing Ritter to lose the chance for surgery that might have...

Another story today adds to the mounting evidence that medical malpractice suits are in decline and that medical malpractice insurance costs are headed downward. In Baltimore, Maryland, a consent order settlement has been reached between the State and the largest medical malpractice insurance carrier, Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society, which will result in the return of excess medical...

Froedtert Hospital has issued a warning to nearly 100 patients who underwent surgery this week that they may have been exposed to a rare, fatal brain disease spread by surgical instruments. It was discovered that another patient who had surgery this week may have Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, part of a family of prion diseases, which include mad cow and chronic wasting disease. It is thought that...

A recent U.S. District Court ruling may help shed some light on doctors' experience levels in their respective disciplines. The L.A. Times has reported that the ruling, which resulted from a consumer group's lawsuit to open up the Medicare database, may result in the release of files and billing information for 700,000 doctors. This information could be used to track doctors' performance and...

A story in the Merced Sun-Star reports that a California jury has awarded $2.5 million to a patient who lost control of his bowels due to medical malpractice during routine surgery to remove a cyst from his buttocks. The patient alleged that his surgeon negligently cut a nearby muscle while attempting to remove the cyst. But this medical malpractice victim will likely face another painful cut...

A $4.1 million judgment awarded against a Tennessee nursing home is generating debate in that state over the rights of abused residents to compensation versus the costs to insurance companies and nursing home operators.The jury heard evidence that the resident developed bedsores, and had an undiagnosed hip fracture and other problems, all of which were ignored by the nursing home because of...

It is always a challenge for the malpractice victim to find a qualified doctor willing to stand up in court and point the finger at another member of the profession who has committed malpractice. Most potential experts are specialists who depend on referrals from general practice doctors and others in the same community. Testifying against a colleague in the community can be the death knell...

Pregnant woman are being urged to avoid taking the antidepressant Paxil because of the risk of birth defects. A committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has issued the warning based on two separate studies showing that children born to women taking Paxil during their first trimester have experienced nearly twice the incidence of heart defects.In December 2005, the...

My colleague Jeffrey M.Goldberg, a nationally-renowned trial attorney who is an expert in birth injury cases, has filed a medical malpractice suit in Illinois on behalf of a child born with cerebral palsy and severe brain damage as the result of a mismanaged labor and delivery. The suit seeks fair compensation for the child and his family, but argues that fair compensation can only be provided...

Stephanie Menciimer, author of the blog The Tortellini, cautions in a guest editorial posted in TomPaine.com that victims' rights remain at risk despite the Democratic Party's victory in the mid-term elections. The business lobby, led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is not going away. As Mencimer observes, So long as Americans continue to exercise their right to sue when they've been injured,...

A Pennsylvania jury has awarded a 6-year old boy $20 million in a medical malpractice case after he went blind almost immediately following his birth. Those held responsible by the verdict included the hospital, the head of the neonatology unit, the hospital's pediatric opthamologist, and the boy's pediatrician. The boy was born premature and developed retinapathy of prematurity, an eye disease ...

A Michigan court jury has awarded $15.8 million in damages for a child born with cerebral palsy allegedly the result of medical malpractice. The family's attorneys alleged that the doctors managing the birth were negligent in failing to perform a cesarean section delivery when the fetus experienced difiiculty during prolonged labor.Unfortunately, this type of tragic error occurs all too often....