Category Archives: Medical Malpractice
Nurse Liability in Malpractice Cases
Can Nurses Be Held Liable for Medical Malpractice? Like physicians, nurses can be held responsible for harming patients. When a nurse harms a patient through improper treatment, disregard for safety or hospital protocol, or other negligent failure, they can be subject to medical malpractice lawsuits. Just like doctors, nurses are tasked with exercising the… Read More »
May is American Stroke Month: Stay Stroke- Free
May is American Stroke Month, and while that designation may not be as well-known as Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October) or other month-long awareness campaigns, it is certainly one that helps spread the word about a serious medical emergency that often can be prevented. In fact, the American Stroke Association reports that up to… Read More »
Freidin Brown, P.A. Lawyers Secure $730,000 Settlement
We are proud to announce that our lawyers have secured a $730,000 settlement with the Public Health Trust (PHT) and Miami-Dade County in a case where the jail’s medical staff failed to provide Pascual Diaz-Plasencia with necessary treatment, resulting in his kidney failure and eventual loss of that kidney. “Mr. Diaz-Plasencia suffered for weeks… Read More »
Pursuing Medical Care Providers for Late or Missed Cancer Diagnosis
All of us know the dangers of cancer. We also understand that early diagnosis and early detection lead to better prognosis with less invasive treatment and much-improved outcomes. Conversely, late detection can result in advanced stage cancer that, though treatable, often has dire medical consequences along with long, difficult treatments, emotional trauma, the risk… Read More »
Woman Sues Hospital After She Accidentally Suffocated Newborn While Sleeping
Monica Thompson of Oregon is suing the Portland Adventist Medical Center for nearly $9 million, according to the lawsuit, after the hospital staff’s negligence led to the suffocation of her newborn son. In early August 2012, Thompson fell asleep in the clinic with her newborn son cradled in her arms. An hour later, she… Read More »
Violations of Patient Consent
In practice of medicine, all doctors are bound to their patients, in that there is an understood relationship that the doctor will treat the patient based on the symptoms or condition. The patient must first consent to the treatment, essentially giving the doctor permission to provide care. this might encompass diagnostic examinations to prescribing… Read More »
Medicare Beneficiaries Die Soon After Discharge
Emergency Departments Treating Healthier Populations Have Higher Rates of Death Recently, research showed that hospitals in the lowest fifth of rates of inpatient admission from the emergency department had the highest rates of early death, whereas smaller increases in admission rate were linked to large decreases in risk. This is a startling fact given… Read More »
New Legislation Seeks to Limit Compensation for Medical Malpractice Victims
Recently, a new piece of legislation was approved by the House Judiciary Committee, which would cap damages in medical malpractice cases for individuals who are insured under programs like Medicare, Medicaid, veterans or military health plans, and the affordable care act. For negligent doctors, this would be a relief, given that it makes it… Read More »
Surgeries Gone Wrong
Surgeries are performed every day, many of which are considered routine and do not warrant much concern. These procedures are anything but innocuous, however, according to the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare, wrong site surgeries occur at least 40 times a week in the United States. Wrong site surgeries involve procedures that are… Read More »
What Factors Lead to a Successful Medical Malpractice Claim?
Patients file medical malpractice claims in many cases involving harm or wrongdoing done by a health care professional. These cases might include patients who have been harmed due to poor medical treatment, become ill due to unsanitary or unsafe conditions, or out of a serious or egregious error. To determine how a medical practitioner… Read More »