Medical Malpractice

• Jury Finds Orthopedic Surgeon Committed Medical Malpractice

  Michelle Zeigler | March 13, 2007 9:01 AM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  A Wassau, Wisconsin jury found that an orthopedic surgeon had committed medical malpractice when he failed to diagnose a 67 year old woman's traumatic dislocated shoulder. They awarded $600,000. The plaintiff's attorney was Paul Scoptur, an experienced personal injury lawyer with primary offices in Milwaukee. This case serves to illustrate that juries have the ability to separate...

• New Jersey Hospital Cited by State for Dumping Patient

  Mike Ferrara | March 11, 2007 1:07 AM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  In a clear case of profits over people, The Hackensack Medical Center in New Jersey has been cited by State officials for giving a blind, paraplegic 58 year old man insufficient care upon his release. Within hours of his release he had to be taken by ambulance to Holy Name Hospital, where he was promptly admitted. He remained in the ICU unit for 4 days and then remained at Holy Name for...

• Doctor's Insurance Company Settles A Medical Malpractice Case Where Kidney was Removed by Mistake

  Michelle Zeigler | March 08, 2007 1:50 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  Our firm represented a 59 year old woman in a medical malpractice claim. She was admitted to the hospital to have a routine colostomy reversal. While performing this routine surgery, the surgeon made a medical mistake and removed her kidney. He didn't know it was a kidney. Fortunately for New Jersey residents, the hospital fired this doctor the following day. Despite the cries of...

• 11,239 Confirmed Presciption Errors in Hospitals

  Mike Ferrara | March 06, 2007 3:21 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  In a new study looking at the years between 1998 and 2005, it was found that doctors, nurses and hospital staffs made 11,239 errors in filling prescriptions relating to surgery patients. These were cases of hospital negligence where either the wrong prescription was given or the wrong dosage of the correct prescription was given. The study coved 400 different hospitals over a seven year...

• Woman Sues NJ Abortion Clinic for Medical Malpractice

  Christina Cole | March 03, 2007 2:34 AM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  A Newark woman that spent a month in a coma after undergoing an abortion at a Bergen County clinic sued the facility and numerous doctors on Thursday for medical malpractice.The suit was filed in Superior Court in Essex County against Metropolitan Medical Associates, an Englewood clinic that handles thousands of abortions per year. The clinic was ordered to shut down last Friday by state...

• Office Manager Dropped from Malpractice Lawsuit

  Christina Cole | December 31, 2006 10:39 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  On Monday, the office manager of a former Roanoke pain specialist, Cecil Knox, was dropped from a civil lawsuit.Beverly Gale Boone was named with Knox and Southwest Virginia Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in a $1.5M medical malpractice suit filed in Roanoke County back in 2004. The lawsuit was filed by Tammy Walton, whose late brother, Tracy Akers, was a patient of Knox.Akers, a...