A man filed a lawsuit on behalf of his wife after she suffered a life-altering injury during a surgical procedure. Instead of injecting an anesthetic into the woman for the surgery, they accidentally injected her with tranexamic acid which is a medication used to control bleeding directly into her spine. As a result of the […]
Medical Malpractice
Lawsuit: Hospital Failed To Disclose Mass That Continued To Grow
2004: An Iowa woman goes to the hospital complaining of pain and CT scan reveals an abnormal mass on her right kidney. The patient is not told about the mass and is released. 2006: The woman goes back to the hospital complaining of a urinary tract infection. The mass on the kidney is still visible. […]
Veterans’ Nursing Home Sued After COVID Deaths
During the pandemic, many states, including the most liberal states in the Northeast that were hit hard in the beginning moved to protect hospitals and other healthcare facilities from lawsuits involving allegations of COVID-19. The rules for every state are different, but most of these temporary laws eliminated the possibility of filing COVID-19 lawsuits against […]
LA Hospital Sued For Medical Malpractice/Racism
The husband of a woman who died shortly after childbirth at a well-known hospital in Los Angeles has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the hospital accusing it of providing a much lower standard of care to women of color than white women. The plaintiff said that the racial element of his case took form […]
Doctors Sued After Operating On Wrong Ankle
A patient claimed that doctors asked her twice which ankle they were going to be operating on before proceeding to operate on the wrong ankle. The matter was not corrected until 90 minutes into the surgery when nurses recognized the mistake. The doctors then informed the patient that they had operated on the wrong ankle, […]
