Authorities suspect carbon monoxide poisoning killed a family of six in their Fenton Township, Michigan home over the weekend. The home is located in an area that had experienced a power outage due to high winds. It is unclear how long the Quasarano family had…
Dr. Alexander M. Ortolano, an obstetrician and gynecologist who faces at seven medical negligence lawsuits and whose license was restricted by the state last year, has closed his Richland, Washington practice, Arbor Healthcare for Women. Amid allegations of performing unnecessary procedures and subs
Yesterday, I posted an article about a Minnesota verdict and that state’s somewhat pro-citizen approach to medical malpractice reform. I compared Minnesota’s malpractice pay-outs to heavily tort reformed Virginia and North Carolina. As I sit here on a Saturday morning drinking my coffee, it struck…
More than 4,500 former athletes, some suffering from dementia, Alzheimer’s, or depression, accused the NFL of concealing the long-term dangers of concussions and rushing injured players back onto the field while profiting from the kind of bone-jarring hits that where often glorified in slow-motion r
A Florida woman who refused to leave a hospital when she was discharged died after she was forcibly removed by police. Why the staff cleared Barbara Dawson, 57, whilst the patient maintained that she did not feel well is yet to be fully understood. According…
Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) can happen to anyone – a child or professional playing football, someone riding bike, someone who slips and falls or has been in a car accident. Over the past decade, emergency room visits have increased by 70 percent due to some…
HeartBuds, a smartphone based stethoscope was developed by a group pf cardiologists at Orlando Health. The listening device resembles a regular stethoscope, but instead of the Y-shaped tube that feeds into the doctor’s ears, the device is connected to a smart phone. Consumers can even…
Dr. William Hedrick, the founder and president at the Centers for Pain Relief in Northern Indiana has been under investigation since 2012 for allegedly using unsafe drug practices when prescribing medication to his patients. There have been numerous complaints of him mixing uncomplimentary drugs and
Tort reform keeps rearing its ugly head; here is yet another case where a plaintiff was denied full adjudication by a jury of his/her peers because of a legislative capped recovery. A North Carolina jury awarded a woman more than $7.5 million, $3.24 million in…
Although pesticides are intended to harm only the target – the pest – humans are being harmed by overuse, misuse, and even lawful use of these toxic chemicals. Two days after their home was fumigated for termites, the family was told it was safe to…
A family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Houston hospital and doctor alleging a 32-year-old man, and father of three, died because staff was more concerned about getting paid than saving his life. Fighting a fever, on December 26, 2013 the man went…
According to a Missouri Supreme Court ruling, it is too late for families to seek damages against a Missouri hospital which allegedly concealed suspicions that an employee had caused a rash of patient deaths in 2002. Citing the state’s three-year statute of limitations on wrongful-death…