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• Florida Jury Awards Stroke Victim $3.82 Million Dollars

  Staff Writer | August 14, 2006 10:17 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  A Florida jury has awarded more than 3.8 Million Dollars to a woman who suffered a brain injury after having a large intravenous tube removed before she was about to be released and sent home. Kathleen Leer, 54 years of age, was a chronic pain patient who had been admitted because of a dislodged catheter in her lower back. After an operation to replace the catheter, she developed complications...

• Meritorious Medical Malpractice Claims

  Staff Writer | August 03, 2006 2:55 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  A study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine by the Department of Health Policy and Management, establishes that the vast majority of expenditures associated with medical malpractice litigation are expended on cases where preventable medical mistakes occurred and payments are made to the injured claimant. The study examined 14,052 closed malpractice claims from five...