A federal district judge in Washington, DC has granted a pharmaceutical company’s motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit brought by a patient alleging the failure to warn of certain risks associated with the company’s drug. In Patteson, et al v. AstraZeneca, L.P., et al, the plaintiff allegedly suffered debilitating…
The family of a woman killed by her husband can sue the husband’s doctor, the Utah Supreme Court held in February. In B.R. and C.R. v. West, et al, the children of Kristy Ragsdale sued the doctor and nurse practitioner who treated the children’s father, David Ragsdale, alleging that the…
As medical devices grow increasingly sophisticated, disputes have begun to arise between doctors and medical device manufacturers over who bears the responsibility when a patient is injured by a device. In some instances, manufacturers try to hold doctors liable for using a device improperly, and in others doctors try to…
A Washington, DC-area dentist recently warned about the importance of protecting children’s teeth and jaws from injury as they participate in fall and winter sports, noting the potential for serious damage and complications from fairly common sports injuries. The dentist, of course, recommends obtaining a custom-made mouth guard with the…
A jury in a federal lawsuit in Cheyenne, Wyoming has awarded $9 million to Louis and Rebecca Prager. The suit against Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Gillette, Wyoming and Dr. Brian Cullison alleged medical negligence during treatment of Mr. Prager in 2008, leading to permanent disabilities. The award may be…
According to an article published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, most doctors will face at least one medical malpractice lawsuit as a defendant by the time they turn 65. Their findings come from looking at the files of a national malpractice insurance carrier. The five most-sued…
An appeals court isn’t letting a deceased doctor off the hook for his share of a Washington DC medical malpractice settlement owed to a woman who sustained serious injuries because anticoagulants were improperly administered to her. Per the court, the estate of Ronald Kurstin, MD must pay $1 million of…
11 years after he was mistakenly diagnosed with HIV, an appeals court has said that Terry Hedgepeth’s $20 million Washington DC medical malpractice lawsuit against the Whitman-Walker Clinic can proceed. His original complaint was dismissed on the grounds that he did not sustain any physical injuries from the medical mistake.…
According to a report issued last week by the city’s Office of the Inspector General, the paramedic who told Edward L. Givens to take Pepto-Bismol for acid reflux hours before the 39-year-old suffered a fatal heart attack was either unaware of or failed to follow a number of department protocols.…
According to a new study by UC Davis Health System, not all children who sustain minor blunt head trauma need to undergo CT scans. Yet, about half of those who do end up in hospital ERs for this type of injury get a head computed tomography scan. More about the…