Medical Malpractice
$2.25 Million Verdict Against Fairfax Surgeon
According to published reports, a Fairfax Circuit Court jury has awarded the estate of a former employee of Inova Fair Oaks Hospital nearly $2.25 million dollars following and operation to repair a failed Nissen fundoplication.
The verdict, awarded against Barry Walter, M.D. and Virginia Surgery Associates, was later reduced to $1.85 million to comply with Virginia’s [...]
Many Doctors Don’t Always Report Errors, Incompetent Colleagues
A survey in the December 4 issue of the journal Annals of Internal Medicine found that while most doctors believe in the tenets of medical professionalism, there’s a gap between these standards and doctors’ actions. According to the survey, almost half of all doctors say they have witnessed medical mistakes but have not reported them.
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Virginia Doctor Gets Year in Prison for Prescription Scam
A Virginia doctor who wrote tens of thousands of prescriptions for muscle relaxants and other drugs over the Internet without meeting or examining the patients has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison.
Dr. Torrino Jennings of Mechanicsville, Va., was also sentenced in federal court in Boston on Wednesday to three years [...]
Parents of girl who died during breast surgery call for change
The parents of an 18-year-old suburban Boca Raton cheerleader who died last year during breast-augmentation surgery called Wednesday for a ban on the use of general anesthesia at outpatient surgical centers.
Such centers are not equipped to deal with emergencies such as the one that killed their daughter, Stephanie, both Joanne and Thomas Kuleba said during [...]
Ad aired to fight caps on medical malpractice
Personal injury lawyers still cringe when they recall 2004’s eye-catching television ads of doctors walking out of town along the highway, fleeing from high malpractice insurance costs.
A congressional study and a national consumer advocacy group found at the time that the health care industry had spent millions of dollars exaggerating the malpractice crisis in Nevada [...]
Significant Medical Malpractice Risks Associated With Gastric Bypass Surgery
The summer sun is almost upon the North Carolina and Virginia coast and so is bathing suit season. Many of those battling with obesity and trying to get slimmer have also opted for gastric bypass surgery, also known as stomach stapling, when they have exhausted all other options. Gastric bypass is a procedure where the [...]
Compromise Medical Malpractice Bill Passes Senate
A bill that would make it harder to win a medical malpractice lawsuit against an emergency room physician garnered widespread support as it passed in the Utah Senate this morning. Bill co-sponsor Senator John Valentine said the stakeholders interested in the bill came to the table and hashed out some compromises last week, then created [...]
