A Pittsburgh jury awarded the estate of 24 year old Michael Rettger $2.5 million for wrongful death damages, but refused to award any money to his brothers for survival damages after stating on the jury form that “no amount of money will adequately punish” the hospital for Mr. Rettger’s death.…
I recently filed a Medical Malpractice Complaint against Beebe Hospital on behalf of a woman who was declared dead, left on a guerney waiting to be taken to the morgue and then noted by a nurse (almost an hour later) to be breathing. In this case, Judith Johnson initially went…
Delaware has become the third state in the nation that will not bill patients or their insurance companies for certain medical errors. Delaware hospitals identified 9 serious mistakes for which they will no longer bill: (1) performing surgery on the wrong body part; (2) performing surgery on the wrong patient;…
A new study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that the likelihood of patient survival after cardiac arrest (when the heart stops) in a hospital is significantly impacted by the time of day the attack occurs. This study follows earlier studies that demonstrated that patients fare…
Evidence showed that poor nursing care at Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, including failure to contact a physician as ordered when the patient’s blood pressure dropped below 100 and the absence of documented nursing care for a 16.5 hour period after surgery, resulted in the death…
The Estate of 77 year old man was awarded $1.7 million by a Philadelphia jury after he slowly suffocated on Ventilator with a mucus plug that went untreated. Simple proper suctioning by his nurses would have prevented his death. Temple University Hospital was found negligent through the failure of its…