Galveston Bay Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Medical Malpractice

A new study published in this month’s Pediatrics magazine suggests that our children may be at much more of a risk of hospital errors than we ever could have imagined. The study claims that...

The parents of 15-year-old Alex Koehne wanted their son to live on after passing away from what they were told was bacterial meningitis. After careful consideration Jim and Lisa Koehne decided to...

A Rhode Island hospital has been fined $50,000 and reprimanded by the Department of Health after a doctor performed brain surgery on the wrong side of a patient's brain. While this sounds terrible it gets even worse. This is the third time this has happened this year at this hospital alone. Last Friday marks the most recent occurrence when the chief resident began operating on the wrong side of...

The estate of a West Virginia woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in response to a leg amputation she received. The woman lost her right leg above the knee due to complications during surgery. The suit was filed in a circuit court on August 6th against Edmund E. Figuero, M.D.According to the suit, Rosa Griffith underwent a left heart catheterization via the right groin artery June 13,...

The Food and Drug Administration issued a health alert on September 27, 2005, to medical professionals and that GlaxoSmithKline changed the labeling on their popular antidepressant Paxil to reflect growing concerns about birth defects. Women that took Paxil during their first three months of pregnancy were one and a half to two and a half times more like to have a baby with a serious heart...

Since 1992, when the FDA first gave its approval for the release of Paxil in the U.S. market, it has been one long rollercoaster ride for the drug manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, GSK. Generating annual sales of up to 2 billion dollars, Paxil has been prescribed for the treatment of depression, and a large variety of other "disorders", many of which the American public had never heard of before...

A Texas woman has settled a medical malpractice lawsuit against Belvidere Bariatric Clinic to the tune of $1.2 million. The claimant alleged negligence by the clinic led to her husband's death. On Tuesday she agreed to a settlement of 1.2 million with the Bariatric Treatment Center, Northwest Suburban Community Hospital and the surgeon involved.Another doctor, a defendant included in the case,...

Parents of twin boys have filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit alleging one of their sons will never have a normal life and the blame is pointing to a military hospital.The parents are filing a suit for $150 million against Naval Hospital accusing the staff and doctors and staff of medical malpractice. The parents say the boy is brain damaged from a birth injury during delivery.The hospital...