The Legalizer

July 24th, 2006 One of Ohio's largest medical-malpractice awards $17.8 million was awarded to the family of Alexis Hayes a 5-year-old girl whose brain was damaged as doctors prepared her for surgery to cover future medical costs, education and pain. The verdicts include $800,000 for each parent and $16,254,000 for Alexis.

December 2nd, 2005 Court awarded 36.5 million dollars to a brain damaged child's family in a medical malpractice law suit in Burlington. This is probably the largest settlement in state history.

May 11th, 2009 Due to surgeons negligence and misuse of a medical device while removal of her spleen a 8 year old girl who had to suffer sever internal injuries and permanent brain damage, will receive a $17.3 million settlement from the Wisconsin medical malpractice compensation fund. The suit alleges that Dr.

September 21st, 2006 A $4.1 million settlement of a medical malpractice lawsuit, filed in Brooklyn State Supreme Court against several doctors who failed to properly perform an abortion of Karen Sheppard, 38, was reached. Karen Sheppard, 38, got $300,000 and her son, Jo'Ell Sheppard-Mobley, 6, received $3.8 million to settle charges that the doctors committed medical malpractice by mishandling the procedure, a misstep that led to Jo'Ell being born with physical and mental impairments, said Sheppard's attorney, Bruce Cohen of Rockville Centre.

August 2nd, 2006 We are writing articles about “medical malpractice” for last few months. Now the following questions can be arisen about the topic: 1) What is medical malpractice? 2) On what grounds one can file malpractice lawsuit against hospital or the concerned doctor? 3) How can one file medical malpractice lawsuit? 4) What are the things that you have to prove if you have filed a malpractice lawsuit? 5) What is the first step a medical malpractice attorney would take to pursue the claim? 6) What are the special medical malpractice statutes? 7) What are Examples of Common Medical Malpractice Cases?

July 24th, 2006 A medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed in Connecticut on behalf of a lesbian couple alleges that an error in cancer treatments damaged not just one partner's health, but the couple's legally sanctioned sexual relationship. Their attorneys say it's the first lawsuit of its kind under the state's civil unions law.

December 7th, 2005 A malpractice suit was decided against Riverside Regional Medical Center with $1 million compansation. A jury decided that hospital nurses didn't properly supervise hte woman who fell and broke her hip at Riverside Regional Medical Center during a stay in 1997.

April 1st, 2009 A 38-year-old pregnant woman Kimberly Monson awarded $6.4 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit last week. Her attorney Gregg Pasquale believes that the finally the amount would be at least 10 million along with interest.