A jury in Fairfax, Virginia (VA) ruled in favor of a plaintiff seeking medical malpractice damages from a dermatologist who failed to diagnose melanoma. David M. Kopstein, the attorney for the plaintiff, took the case even after it had received a prior hung jury decision. These types of cases are difficult due to the issue…
Virginia families who lost loved ones due to medical malpractice and negligence gathered together to profess their desire to see a preservation and expansion of patient’s rights in the new healthcare reform bill, according to Fox Business.com. Patient’s rights have been under attack disguised as a call for major “tort reform.” This is such a…
Five wrong-site surgeries in two years have provoked a $150,000 fine from the Rhode Island (RI) Department of Health against Rhode Island Hospital. The hospital serves as the training facility for students, interns and residents at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School, which makes repeated documented failures to follow safety procedures such as completing a presurgery…
There has been a $450,000.00 settlement of a wrongful death claim arising from the Portsmouth Naval Hospital due to a doctor’s failure to reinsert a breathing tube, according to published reports. A 43-year-old wife of a retired U.S. Navy petty officer had a boil on her thigh which became infected and was referred to Portsmouth…
The Hampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center may undergo its third review by VA inspectors in less than a year if agency heads grant Virginia Sen. Jim Webb’s request that the VA Inspector General follow up on nearly 150 recent complaints of medical malpractice, patient abuse, medication errors and wrongful deaths. The Virginian-Pilot reported on Thursday,…