Recent Posts in Doctor Error Category

Participant in Medical Study Files Malpractice Suit Against ER Doctors

The Telegraph Herald has reported that a judge has denied a request to dismiss a medical malpractice lawsuit filed against Iowan physicians, that alleges that a medical study they conducted has left a ...

Methadone Overdose Survivor Awarded $1.9 Million in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

From Bangor Maine's Daily News is the report of a woman that sustained brain damage after the methadone her doctor prescribed caused her to stop breathing during her sleep, and that she has been ...

Hospital Lawsuit: Child's Finger Severed and Nerves, Veins, Too Small to Reattach

My Fox, from Tampa Bay Fl., has reported that the mother of a child that lost part of her finger due to a nurse’s mistake, has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Heart of Florida ...

Bad Medicine and Medical Malpractice

Reports are coming out about how big a problem bad medical care is in regard to medical malpractice. According to reports, it is being commented that doctors often do unnecessary things in order to ...

New Parents Sue MD for Vasectomy Failure

A Eugene, OR. physician and his medical partners are being sued by a local couple for $650,000, due to a “wrongful birth” that didn’t allow them the chance at avoiding pregnancy, as reported by The ...

Fostoria Couple Receives Justice, Prefers Former Life

As reported by the Fostoria Review Times in Ohio, Jack and Sherry Reinhart, both in their mid-sixties, were awarded nearly $4 million due to the negligence of a Toledo doctor that has left Sherry ...

Overdose Deaths May Equal Life Sentence For Couple

As reported by the Associated Press for KansasCity.com, Dr. Stephen Schneider, and his wife, Linda Schneider, may receive four twenty-year consecutive sentences for running a clinic that has been ...

Medical Malpractice Turns to Manslaughter in Death of Abortion Patient

Obstetrician and Harvard research associate, Dr Rapin Osathanondh, has been charged with manslaughter due to the death his patient, Laura Hope Smith, as reported by the Associate Press in Boston, ...

Guilty by More than a Nose

The Post-Tribune is reporting that the attorney for Dr. Mark Weinberger, an international fugitive on trial for medical malpractice, stated that the civil lawsuit is all about money. James Hough, ...

Football Medical Team Criticized

The Bengals medical staff is being criticized for how they handled linebacker Rashad Jeanty during the offseason. Jeanty had fractured his fibula in playoffs and the team medical staff said that he ...

Half Million Dollar Suit for Causing Infertility

The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, PA has reported that Michelle Hebda, of Plymouth, has filed a $550,000 medical malpractice suit against doctors that allegedly caused her infertility and performed a ...

Widow of Actor Bernie Mac Sues Dermatologist

Bernie Mac, actor and comedian, died two weeks after being improperly treated by his long-time dermatologist in what his widow, Rhonda McCullough, believes caused his untimely death. McCullough has ...