A man’s botched heart surgery at Community Regional Medical Center located in Fresno County has led a jury to award his family $55.6 million in general damages. Some of the most shocking allegations include the victim, Silvino Perez, having been left on the operating table with an open chest cavity so that the surgeon, Dr. Pervaiz…
October 18, 2017 In August 2017, a family won what might be the largest wrongful-death lawsuit for medical malpractice in Minnesota after a jury awarded them $20 million when a woman died on Aug. 26, 2013, days after giving birth. After the birth of her baby, the mother went home but then complained of nausea…
June 30, 2017 On March 23, 2017, Robbin Smith, a paralyzed woman from Colorado, was awarded $14.9 million after The Surgery Center at Lone Tree, a medical-care facility that focuses on same-day surgical care, was found to commit medical malpractice. According to her attorneys, this was the second-largest malpractice verdict in the state’s history. A…
May 31, 2017 The family of Daisy Lynn Torres took legal action against Austin Children’s Dentistry, Dr. Michael Melanson, the on-site anesthesiologist and the Texas Anesthesiology Association for the wrongful death of their 14-month-old daughter who died following a dental procedure. The lawsuit asserts that Daisy Lynn’s death was tied to a corporate scam to…
April 30, 2017 Steven Harold Cooper received an award for $2.5 million dollars after U.S. Magistrate Judge Michelle Burns concluded that the substandard care Cooper received at the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center led to his stage-IV prostate cancer, unnecessary physical and mental suffering and loss of dignity and life satisfaction. Cooper, now 46…
Jun 20, 2016 Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles agreed to a settlement of $450,000 after they left a homeless patient in the street upon discharge while the patient still needed medical help. While the hospital did not admit fault, they are the fourth hospital since January 2014 to reach a settlement regarding the improper…
May 16, 2016 On March 15, 2016, a Texas federal court awarded five plaintiffs $502 million after DePuy Orthopaedics and Johnson & Johnson, its parent company, were found liable, negligent and responsible for their chronic pain and physical problems. The court heard testimony from the plaintiffs and expert witnesses on both sides for 37 days. After…
January 13, 2016 Terry Corso, one of the founding members of the band Alien Ant Farm, claims that a botched surgery brought turmoil to his life four years ago. In February 2013, the former rocker filed a lawsuit against Riverside Community Hospital of California alleging medical malpractice negligence. The lawsuit claims that hospital personnel failed…
October 19, 2015 An orthopedic surgeon delegated hundreds of operations to a medical assistant and scammed insurance companies to the tune of $150 million in a huge fraud conspiracy, according to Los Angeles prosecutors. Fifteen people were charged in a case that involved 10 years of unnecessary surgeries, scarring many of them for life. In…
July 30, 2015 Few people can fathom why any doctor would purposely lie to a vast number of patients about their health conditions just to receive huge profits. Yet that’s exactly what Michigan’s Dr. Farid Fata did – he told some patients that they had cancer when he knew they didn’t and prescribed extremely high…