Stephen HaskellMalpractice News
| February 11, 2012 |
$3 Million Settlement Reached in Psychiatric Hospital Rape A lawsuit has been settled for $3 million dollars. This is the largest settlement of its kind and was approved Thursday by the U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington. The lawsuit is in... |
| February 9, 2012 |
Dangers Of Anesthesia Used In Cosmetic Surgery In a study based on 6-year data from Alabama and 10-year data from Florida, the Dermatologic Surgery published an article stating that office -based surgery using general anesthesia was connected with... |
| February 8, 2012 |
Malpractice Complaints Go Unlisted The Minnesota Board of Medical Practice denied the request of the News Tribune to release “any and all documents containing or relating to complaints made to them regarding former Duluth neurosu... |
| February 6, 2012 |
Lap-Band Doctors Accused of Gross Negligence Dr. Daniel Shin, an anesthesiologist, has been accused by the Medical Board of California in the connection with the death of Tamara Walter. Walter, 52, died on December 26, 2010, just three day... |
| February 5, 2012 |
Aetna Joins So. California Fraud Division Investigation of 1-800-Get-Thin Surgical Centers Insurance company Aetna has joined the Department of Insurance’s Southern California Fraud Division’s investigations into the surgical centers of 1-800-Get-Thin, a company that advertises ... |
| February 3, 2012 |
Dentist Used Paper Clips in Root Canals Former dentist, Dr. Michael Clair has plead guilty to numerous charges, including defrauding Medicaid of $130,000, illegally prescribing medications, assault and battery, and witness intimidation. ... |
| February 2, 2012 |
Dispute Between Doctors and Insurance Costing Patients A dispute between a hospital and insurance company is hitting patients in their wallets. Emergency Room doctors at Providence Holy Family Hospital no longer contract with Premera Blue Cross, which mea... |
| February 1, 2012 |
Women Gets Used Breast Implant Claiming that it was a “cost effective” move, Dr. Robert Rhodes who is based in St. George, Utah but consults in Los Vegas, mistakenly implanted a beast in the wrong women. He then r... |
| January 31, 2012 |
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruled Physician Can Be Sued For Emotional Distress The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that a physician can be sued for allegedly causing a patients to suffer emotional distress, even when no physical impact led to the distress, Amednews.com r... |
| January 26, 2012 |
Family Awarded $177 Million in Medical Negligence Lawsuit A jury in Jacksonville, Florida has awarded Clay Chandler $167 million in damages for fraud and medical negligence, and added $10 million for punitive damages, after finding Memorial Hospital negligen... |
| January 20, 2012 |
Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Settled A Florida jury awarded $19.2 million to the family of Kiarra Smith after they filed medical malpractice against Health Park Medical Center, alleging Kiarra was overdosed on nutrients which caused her ... |
| January 18, 2012 |
Ohio Family Awarded $13.9 Million in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit over Botched Delivery After a three-week trial, a Trumball County Common Pleas Court jury has awarded the family of now ten-year-old Haley Cobb a $13.9 million settlement over a lawsuit that claims Haley's cerebral palsy w... |
| January 16, 2012 |
Novartis Issues Recall of Excedrin, NoDoz, Bufferin, and Gas-X Prevention Novartis Consumer health Inc., has issued a voluntary recall of all lots of Excedrin and NoDoz bottles with the expiry dates of December 20, 2014 and earlier. The company is also recalling Bufferin an... |
| January 14, 2012 |
14 Drug Makers Facing Lawsuits over DES Breat Cancer Links 14 drug companies who made and promoted DES, or diethylstilbestrol, a synthetic estrogen used to prevent miscarriages from the late 1930s to the early 1970s, are facing lawsuits filed by 53 women acro... |
| January 11, 2012 |
Smigaj Lawsuit against Memorial Hospital Reinstated The pision III Court of Appeals in Spokane has found that obstetrician Diana Smigaj presented enough evidence in her appeal to suggest that Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital misused its peer review proc... |
| January 9, 2012 |
Triple Eight Distribution Bicycle Helmet Recalled The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a bicycle helmet recall on January 6th of 30,400 helmets distributed by Triple Eight Distribution Inc. The recall was issued because the helm... |
| January 9, 2012 |
Yaz Bellwether Trials Halted; Judge Calls in Mediator U.S. District Judge David Herndon has called off a series of bellwether trials involving the settlement of over 10,000 lawsuits filed against drug-maker Bayer over their Yaz and Yasmin birth control p... |
| December 7, 2011 |
Press Release - Estate of Glen Cloninger V. Dr. Kim Chen, ET AL. Stephen Haskell Law Offices filed suit December 1, 2010 on behalf of the estate of a well-known local architect and real estate developer, Glen Cloninger, together with his family. |