A former Eugene woman is trying to keep the state of Oregon from claiming more than $200,000 from a medical malpractice settlement she received after suffering a stroke at age 27 that left her with only limited use of her …
An eastern Kentucky jury cleared a doctor in a civil trial over a patient’s death. The Daily News reported that jurors found Dr. Uyi Idemudia not liable in a lawsuit brought by the family of James K. Gross after he …
A jury in eastern Alabama has awarded a widow $850,000 after her husband was given three times his normal dosage of medication and died Christmas Day. AL.com reported Wednesday that a jury spent hours deliberating before delivering the verdict against …
A Clovis, Calif., hospital and doctor are defending themselves against a lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who bled to death after a common surgery. The family of 40-year-old Nicole Caruso filed the medical malpractice suit after she …
A Dane County judge has upheld a $250,000 malpractice cap for University of Wisconsin-Madison doctors. The case involves a Verona woman who won a $1.8 million jury award in her husband’s death, as the jury found a UW doctor was …
A University of Iowa doctors’ group paid $60,000 to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit just weeks after The Associated Press reported that the surgeon involved may have given incomplete or misleading testimony about his messy resignation, the settlement shows. UI …
A southwestern Indiana jury has sided with an Evansville couple who accused a local hospital and a doctor of causing their 9-year-old daughter’s severe brain injury and cerebral palsy. The Vanderburgh Circuit Court jury ordered St. Mary’s Medical Center and …
A judge has awarded $15 million to the family of an 8-year-old girl who was left with permanent brain damage after taking a nasal decongestant recommended by a University of Washington doctor at Seattle Children’s Hospital. The family of MacKenzie …
A Long Island family has been awarded $130 million in a malpractice lawsuit. The parents of Shannon Reilly of Bayport had sued St. Charles Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in Port Jefferson. They claimed her delivery there in 2002 resulted in …
A Maine woman who sued a doctor for malpractice because she said he overprescribed her methadone has been awarded $1.9 million by a jury. Charlene Whalen of Corinth sued Dr. Steven Weisberger, alleging the dosage of the prescription he gave …