Charlottesville Jury Awards $825,000 in Virginia Medical Malpractice Case
Rick Shapiro and Kevin Duffan obtained a $825,000 jury verdict in a medical malpractice case.
Rick Shapiro and Kevin Duffan obtained a $825,000 jury verdict in a medical malpractice case.
In a frightening and eye-opening piece in the New York Times today, reporter Robert Pear wrote that 94 percent of nursing homes across the country have violations, and that a full and staggering 100 percent of Washington, DC, elder care facilities have violations.
Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Virginia has been the focus of a $3 million wrongful death lawsuit in the case of a man who died from lung cancer in 2011. This case recently was settled for $2 million. The lawsuit alleged that doctors for the clinic failed to act after they took two chest x-rays in…
A physician in Asheville, North Carolina is currently being investigated by the medical board for the state for deaths of three infants just after home births he performed. He also was sued in a birth injury lawsuit in 2007. The child in question in the latter case was born in October 2005 and her parents…
Beauty may only be skin deep, but many people who have opted for cosmetic surgery have paid the ultimate price. A young beauty queen died in Ecuador after undergoing liposuction surgery that she had received as a prize, her family said, calling the operation a case of medical malpractice. Patients seeking to reduce deposits of fat that…