The New York Attorney General’s Office has announced the arrest of a former Director of Nursing Services of a Queens nursing home for falsifying facility records to cover-up that a 74 year old resident, who suffers from dementia and high blood pressure, was missing from the facility. The 43 year old female Mount Vernon, NY…
Lately because of the extreme weather coming out of Oklahoma, news has been grim but thanks to the Oklahoma Supreme Court there is a bright spot on the horizon for victims of medical malpractice. The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that tort reform laws passed in 2009 are unconstitutional. The court invalidated the entire bill including…
Regina Turner, 53 years-old, entered the hospital for a “left-sided craniotomy bypass” operation. The Missouri woman, a former paralegal, began suffering from strokes five years ago and the surgery was supposed to prevent future strokes. But the neurosurgeon operated on the wrong side of her brain, performing a “right-sided craniotomy surgical procedure”. Once the operating…
We recently discussed the dangers associated with medical errors, specifically how a recent study discovered that diagnostic mistakes are the most common and most costly forms of medical problems. The following article contains some important background information for those who may have suffered harm from medical malpractice. First things first, if you’ve been injured at…
A jury awarded a family whose child suffered severe brain damage as a result of a birth injury 78.5 million dollars. The injured child now has severe spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy and will require a lifetime of care. This horrific injury was the result of an 81-minute delay in performance of an emergency cesarean section…