Medical Malpractice

• Treatment Center Settles Lawsuit Related to Teen Suicide

  Robert Wolf | May 22, 2006 10:55 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  A wilderness treatment center has agreed to pay $1.2 million and admit responsibility to settle a lawsuit filed by the parents of a Massachusetts teenager who killed himself while in its care, the parents' lawyers said Tuesday.Paul and Diana Lewis of East Longmeadow, Mass., sued the Aldredge Academy, also known as the Ayne Institute, in 2002 in Kanawha County Circuit Court alleging negligence...

• Man Dies in North Carolina Hospital

  Jeff Rasansky | August 21, 2008 5:36 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  A 50-year old patient died in North Carolina after workers left him in a chair for 22 hours. Nobody helped him to the bathroom or even fed him, they just left him there. This case is alarmingly...

• Painkiller Theft Causes Hepatitis at Military Hospital

  RLF Staff | March 26, 2008 1:32 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Ex-nurse and retired Army captain Jon Dale Jones is believed to have spread Hepatitis C to 15 military service members or their relatives at El Paso's William Beaumont Army Medical Center by diverting painkiller from the patients to himself. Though details are unclear, an outbreak of Hepatitis C was reported at the hospital in 2004, and Jones tested positive for the blood-borne disease. It...

• Dennis Quaid: Medical Mistakes Far Too Common

  RLF Staff | March 17, 2008 1:13 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  While Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly are lucky that their twins are still with them today after a hospital-administered overdose of an adult blood thinner had them fighting for life in November, not all victims of medical mistakes are so lucky. In fact, according to a 2000 Food and Drug Administration article, 44,000-98,000 Americans die each year not from the medical conditions they checked in...

• Woman Left in Vegetative State After C-Section Receives $17 Million

  Clint Gilbert | May 01, 2006 11:32 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Norwalk Hospital, located in Norwalk, Conn has settled a lawsuit involving themselves and a former doctor for nearly $17 million. The lawsuit was filed by the parents of Mia House, who suffered permanent brain damage after her blood-oxygen levels were allowed to drop dangerously low during a routine Caesarean section. Mia House has been in a vegetative state since the procedure.The C-section was...

• $150M Suit Filed Against Naval Hospital

  RLF Staff | February 13, 2007 7:09 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  The claim statesthe child's cerebral palsy was caused by "failures of the physicians and staff of Naval Hospital Jacksonville, due to asphyxiation during birth process, Gavin Alcorn sustained a severe brain injury."The parents of Gavin Alcorn are filing a $150 million claim against Naval Hospital Jacksonville, claiming medical malpractice. The couple said the boy is brain damaged because of a...

• Hospitals Adopting Non-Bill Standards for Medical Errors

  Jeff Rasansky | August 13, 2008 2:55 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Hospitals around the country have come together to say they will no longer bill patients for their medical mistakes. Tennessee is one state out of 23 that has approved the non-payment policies for...

• Drug Mistakes Affect 7.3 Percent of Hospitalized Children

  Jeff Rasansky | April 07, 2008 10:59 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  A new study released in the April edition of Pediatrics found a rate of 11 drug-related harmful events for every 100 hospitalized children - with some children affected by more than one such...

• Teen Dies After Routine Breast Procedure

  RLF Staff | March 26, 2008 9:40 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  About 24 hours after a routine corrective breast surgery on Friday, an 18-year-old Florida teen passed away. Two hours into her surgery, Stephanie Kuleba was rushed to the Delray medical Center to correct asymmetrical breasts and inverted areola, according to the Associated Press news brief. There is little additional information at this time and the family's attorney said Tuesday that it was...

• 1.5 Million Americans Affected by Prescription Errors Annually

  RLF Staff | January 05, 2007 6:24 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  According to a report by the Institute of Medicine, as many as 1.5 million Americans suffer illness, injury or death annually because of mistakes made in prescribing, dispensing and taking prescription drugs.The report states that statistically, a patient will be subjected to a medication error once a day during their stay on average. That means that for every day one person does not suffer from...