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"Poisonous" Green Dye Used in Error for Angiogram = Medical Malpractice Suit

The Chicago Sun Times has reported that a medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed against Northwestern Memorial Hospital for using the wrong green dye during a patient's angiogram. According to ...

$22 Million Award for Unnecessary Angiogram that Caused Quadriplegia

In a medical malpractice case, a woman that was seeking migraine relief endured an unnecessary angiogram that caused a stroke, and left her without the use of her arms and legs. In a Menlo County ...

Newborn Breastfed by Wrong Mother Prompts Lawsuit

A hospital mix-up, involving newborns, caused one mother severe anguish upon learning that her baby was breast fed by a stranger, as reported by the New York Post. L.W., 33, of Brooklyn, claims that ...

Blind Veteran Settles Lawsuit with VA Hospital

David E. Woodward Sr., 87, will be paid a settlement of $250,000 by the federal government due to the negligent treatment that allegedly resulted in his blindness in the Palo Alto veterans hospital, ...

$12 Million Malpractice Award for “Locked-in Syndrome”

The News Gazette in East Central Illinois has reported that a settlement of $12 million - that just might be the largest in history for Champaign County - was made out of court for the family of a ...

Tripler Medical Center Settles $11 Million for Disabled Child

On September 21, Hawaii News Now reported that the Tripler Army Medical Center has settled a claim with the McCraw family to compensate for their child's permanent disability. Kayla McCraw, now four ...

First Male Member of Family to Be Circumcised – Without Consent

CBS 4 News in Miami is reporting that a mother from South Florida has sued the South Miami Hospital, and a surgeon on their staff, because her baby boy was circumcised without her consent. Spencer ...

Family Ordeal Not Over as Hospital Appeals

The Swanson family began a medical malpractice suit against Westchester Hospital four years ago as they allege the staff is responsible in an ill-fated delivery of their son on October 23, 2003. A ...

Long Emergency Room Wait Ends Life for Young Woman

An almost six-hour wait in an emergency room is alleged to be the cause for the premature death of 25-year-old graduate student, Martha Barr, as reported by The Register Guard and KVAL News. Thom and ...

Bermuda Couple Files Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

A Bermuda couple is planning on filing a medical malpractice lawsuit against a U.S hospital claiming that the doctors ignored FDA warnings. The woman had known kidney problems and the doctors still ...

270 Overexposed to Radiation in Alabama and Los Angeles Hospitals

Recently, one hospital in Alabama and three hospitals in Los Angeles, California have been reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for over-exposing 270 patients to radiation through CT ...

Baby Missing for 6 Days from California Hospital

In California, it is being reported that a baby's body was finally found after it had been missing for six days. According to sources, the baby was 20 weeks premature and had been delivered at Kaiser ...