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Posted on May 18, 2011 By Lanier Law Firm
A juror in a medical malpractice case attempted to bribe the victim's family in the hopes of fixing the verdict. However, court officials realized what was happening and quickly detained Deonarine ...
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Posted on Apr 28, 2011 By Lanier Law Group
The Erie County Courthouse has seen the second of two medical malpractice cases won in a span of a few days. Last week a jury awarded $1.8 million to the family of a woman who died of lung cancer back ...
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Posted on Apr 6, 2011 By Lanier Law Group
Bittersweet victory came to a woman in Burbank this week when she was awarded $4.5 million for the death of her husband. According to the Pasadena Star-News, Suzanne Whatley-Miller was awarded $3.5 ...
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Posted on Mar 24, 2011 By Lanier Law Group
A new bill regarding medical malpractice suits is actively being opposed by medical groups that hope to avoid frivolous and excessive lawsuits. Under current law a medical malpractice lawsuit can be ...
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Posted on Mar 3, 2011 By Lanier Law Group
Authorities found a former pediatrician shot near his home last week by his own hand. Melvin Levine, 70, was at the center of an investigation for medical malpractice in which he had been accused of ...
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Posted on Feb 17, 2011 By Lanier Law Group
A hospital faces a serious medical malpractice suit after one family blames them for the loss of their daughter's feet and hands. The parents of 2-year-old Malyia Jeffers state that doctors were ...
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Posted on Feb 9, 2011 By Lanier Law Group
After finding him guilty of medical malpractice a court has determined that Dr. Stephen Serlin pay $3 million to a woman who suffered injuries during childbirth eighteen years ago. The Supreme Court ...
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Posted on Jan 5, 2011 By Lanier Law Group
After a liposuction procedure is believed to have claimed the life of a 28-year-old woman, the family is now suing the doctor responsible in a medical malpractice suit. When Aura Javellana went to the ...
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Posted on Dec 30, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
Luckily for one doctor in Arkansas his medical malpractice suit was dropped when he treated an ill juror in front of the other jurors. Dr. Stephen Eichert was being sued by Christina Renee Chaffin for ...
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Posted on Dec 16, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
The family in West Richland won their medical malpractice suit this week against Kadlec Regional Medical Center. Their case involved a 4-inch-long piece of plastic tubing that was found inside their ...
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Posted on Nov 12, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
A man in Victoria, Texas was awarded $4 million this week for a surgical sponge that was left inside of him during gallbladder surgery. Ronald Molder, 45, went in for a routine gallbladder surgery in ...
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Posted on Nov 3, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
A medical malpractice case in Wright County, Minneapolis was closed this week when a jury found the New River Medical Center negligent. The center, formerly known as the Monticello Big Lake Community, ...
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Posted on Oct 29, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
New River Medical Center (formerly big Lake Community) was found guilty by a Wright County jury of medical malpractice it was reported. The case stems from the death of a 36-year-old wife and mother. ...
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Posted on Oct 13, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
A Jacksonville, FL man claims he was the victim of medical malpractice at Naval Hospital Jacksonville and has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. government. Early last November, Alex Medina ...
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Posted on Sep 15, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
In West Palm Beach, Florida, a third civil lawsuit has been filed against Dr. John Christensen. The recent lawsuit accuses the doctor of killing a patient by prescribing lethal doses of very powerful ...
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Posted on Sep 8, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
Recently, it has been reported that Botox manufacturer, Allergan, will have to pay out $600 million in monetary fine for illegal marketing practices. Countless women and men in the United States want ...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
In the state of Nevada, doctors are on the edge because the state's cap on medical malpractice damages has been challenged. Recently, there has been a measure introduced which questions limited ...
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Posted on Aug 17, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
Recently, it was revealed that 33 veterans were overlooked in 2009 when the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in downtown Augusta told its patients about possible exposure to bodily fluids that ...
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Posted on Jun 30, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
According to a recent survey, over ninety percent of doctors say that they overtest and overtreat as a way to protect themselves from medical malpractice lawsuits. The findings of the survey aligned ...
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Posted on Jun 24, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
In Orlando, Florida, a woman that became infected with HIV after receiving a kidney transplant is planning to file a medical malpractice lawsuit against Lee Memorial Health Systems. According to the ...
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Posted on Jun 17, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
If you have been injured by a medical professional, you may be wondering how you can take legal action. However, what you must realize before proceeding with your claim is that medical malpractice ...
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Posted on May 3, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
Many advances in the medical field occur on a regular basis, but the hospital infection problem is one that seems to be resistant to change. Per recent hospital statistics, the rates for bloodstream ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
Beth Hippely died from a medication overdose in January 2007. In August 2007, her family went to trial and won a $33.3 million verdict in a wrongful death lawsuit against Walgreens Pharmacy. Walgreens ...
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Posted on Feb 15, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
A medical malpractice lawsuit filed against a Texas hospital has resulted in a $1.3 million jury verdict for the victim's family. The lawsuit was filed against Christus St. Mary Hospital in Port ...
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Posted on Feb 10, 2010 By Lanier Law Group
After experiencing complications following a transplant surgery, two brothers are suing both UMPC and the hospital’s chief of transplantation for medical malpractice . The brothers, 45-year-old Peter ...
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