Medical Malpractice

• Medicare Refuses to Pay For Medical Mistakes And Doctor's Negligence

  David Mittleman | October 09, 2008 3:46 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  Starting October 1, Medicare announced it will no longer pay for treatment resulting from medical errors which occurred during a hospital stay. What does this mean to the over 44 million Americans...

• Michigan State University Doctors Fail to Timely Diagnose Infection - Patient Dies - Jury Awards $9 million

  David Mittleman | March 25, 2008 8:54 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  The Lansing State Journal recently reported that Patrick Cavanaugh was only 39 years old when he died about two weeks after being admitted to Sparrow Hospital. His chief complaints upon admission were shortness of breath, weakness and a fever that lasted ten days.Cavanaugh was a construction worker and died from a fungal infection, histoplasmosis, to which he had been previously exposed while...

• Denial of transplant by health insurance company leads to death

  Devon Glass | December 21, 2007 4:37 PM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  Nataline Sarkisyan, a 17 year old California resident, passed away on December 20, 2007, due to liver failure. She developed liver complications while recovering from a bone marrow transplant. The most remarkable part of this story is that her health insurance company, CIGNA, reversed a decision to pay for a liver transplant only hours before she passed away.Nataline's doctors wrote to CIGNA...

• Michigan Court of Appeals Allows Woman to Sue Hospital for Negligence

  Chrissie Cole | November 28, 2007 1:52 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  A Van Buren County court decision to dismiss a hospital liability suit filed by a woman who had a sponge left inside her during an appendectomy, was overturned by the Michigan Court of Appeals.In June 2004, the woman had surgery at South Haven Community Hospital. A count of surgical sponges used during the procedure came up short. An x-ray the following day displayed no foreign objects and she...

• Oklahoma Man Files Suit Against Doctor, Alleges Doctor Operated on Wrong Knee

  David Mittleman | August 18, 2009 11:45 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  Tulsa, Oklahoma—William Paul Boykin has filed suit against Dr. Carl Painter III of Bailey Medical Center because he alleges the doctor operated on the wrong knee. Furthermore, Boykin also...

• Failure to Diagnose Leads to $8.6 Million Judgment

  David Mittleman | December 10, 2008 8:36 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  In 2002, the former wife of an Air Force captain sought treatment at an Air Force base hospital for pain and swelling in her right arm. The doctor, who believed the woman was a drug addict seeking...

• Lackawanna County Family Wins $20.5 Million in Medical Malpractice Case

  David Mittleman | November 23, 2008 8:41 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  Earlier this week, a jury in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania awarded $20.5 million to the family of a boy that suffers from lasting medical problemscaused by mistakes made at his birth. The day the...

• Newport News Woman Wins $1.8 Million in Medical Malpractice Case

  David Mittleman | August 06, 2009 9:10 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  A jury awarded a Newport News, VA woman $1.8 million after her doctor misdiagnosed her heart condition, causing her to need a heart transplant. Leslie Thorne, the 25-year-old woman, was originally...

• Equal Access to Medical Records Key to Level Playing Field

  David Mittleman | May 01, 2009 8:37 AM | 3 CommentsLansing, MI

  Most of us have no idea what our medical record contains. We assume our providers keep thorough and accurate accounts of our office visits and medical procedures, yet we rarely ask to see these...

• Drug Companies Now Barred From Giving Doctors Free Gifts

  David Mittleman | January 07, 2009 10:39 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI

  New pharmaceutical industry guidelines will likely stop most drug companies from handing out swag with corporate logo’s. The new rules bar the free distribution of pens, coffee mugs, staplers,...