Jury awards $1.45 million in damages against Hospital 
Published: March 5, 2012
Tags: hospital, Kentucky, medical negligence, patient dumping, wrongful death
A Fayette Circuit Court, Ky. jury has awarded the estate of James Milford Gray $1.45 million in punitive damages from St. Joseph Hospital on Harrodsburg Road for its role in Gray’s 1999 death.
Medical conglomerate settles FCRA class action
Published: February 24, 2012
Tags: failure to protect, Fair Credit Reporting Act, FCRA, hospital, Illinois, information security, personal health information
The parent company of Christ Medical Center is paying $1.8 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it violated a federal law that safeguards consumer financial information.
County told to pay $7.6 million for hospital retaliation
Published: December 15, 2011
Tags: gender discrimination, hospital, Illinois, racial discrimination, retaliation
Cook County, Ill. and its former chairman of pathology have been told to pay a physician $7.6 million for retaliating against her after she filed a federal lawsuit claiming racial and gender discrimination.
Woman wins $2.5 million suit against hospital
Published: December 6, 2011
Tags: hospital, medical malpractice, Michigan
A jury awarded a Novi, Mich. teacher $2.5 million in a medical malpractice verdict, after suffering permanent injury during a medical procedure.
Hospital patient wins $67.4M for nurse’s sexual assault
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: December 5, 2011
Tags: California, hospital, negligent retention, nurse, sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual harassment
A California jury has awarded $67.4 million to a woman who claimed that a male nurse sexually assaulted her following a surgical procedure.
Winning attorney Michael Piuze suggested in closing arguments that the jury award $10 million in punitive damages. It came back with $65 million.
Jury awards $7.6 million to paraplegic after misread MRI
Published: November 7, 2011
Tags: California, failure to diagnose, failure to treat, hospital, megical negligence, MRI, paraplegic
A Sacramento County, Calif. jury has ordered UC Davis Medical Center to pay $7.6 million to a woman left paraplegic after personnel misread an MRI exam.
Hospital negligent in child abuse case
Published: October 17, 2011
Tags: child abuse, hospital, negligence, North Carolina
A Cumberland County, N.C. jury has awarded a boy and his father $25 million, ruling that a hospital was negligent when its employees didn’t notice the boy was a victim of child abuse.
Doctor found negligent in heart attack death
Published: September 30, 2011
Tags: heart attack, hospital, medical negligence, West Virginia, wrongful death
An Ohio County, W.Va. jury awarded more than $4 million to the family of a Tiltonsville, Ohio woman after finding a Wheeling Hospital emergency room doctor’s negligence contributed to her death.
County pays $1.4 million in fatal shooting
Published: September 9, 2011
Tags: California, hospital, police shooting, wrongful death
Contra Costa County, Calif. has agreed to pay $1.4 million to the children of a hospital patient who was shot dead by sheriff’s deputies after wielding a knife.
Medical center settles unnecessary stent case for $1.8 million
Published: August 12, 2011
Tags: hospital, Maryland, medical malpractice, stent, unnecessary procedure
Peninsula Regional Medical Center has agreed to pay $1.8 million to settle an unnecessary stent case, the U.S. Department of Justice has announced.
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