The MedLegal Times

Issue : August - 2016

Doctors In China Get Attacked So Often They Now Need Armed Police Guards
August - 2016, Posted ON August 16, 2016

12th July, 2016 – China: Like most people, Chen Zhongwei knew his killer, though not terribly well. The 60-year-old retired dentist had treated him 25 years previously in China’s southern city of Guangzhou. The patient, who had a history of mental illness, became enraged when, all those years later, his teeth began to discolor. Chen was found in his home riddled with stab wounds. The patient killed himself by jumping from Chen’s balcony immediately after the attack.

Dodgy doctor jailed for sexually assaulting patients and filming them changing
August - 2016, Posted ON August 18, 2016

15th July, 2016 – London – UK: A doctor who sexually assaulted patients and secretly filmed them on hidden cameras has been jailed for four and a half years.

The creepy chiropractor used a concealed camera to film his patients undressing in the changing room of his practice.

Dr. George Gough loses medical malpractice suit
August - 2016, Posted ON August 24, 2016

16th July, 2016 – Belize City: Belizeans can be tolerant and forgiving in so many areas of life that many times professionals, who should know better, take advantage, but one woman who has been through pain and suffering because of two botched surgical procedures decided that the best route of redress to follow was through a medical malpractice lawsuit, an unusual area of civil claim in Belizean litigation.

Goshen couple wins $4.25 million in medical malpractice case
August - 2016, Posted ON August 26, 2016

24th July, 2016 – Michigan – US: More than 10 years after a Goshen man became paralyzed from the waist down from an undiagnosed infection, a local court has ordered him and his wife to receive more than $4 million in compensation.

Jury awards siblings $1.75M in malpractice lawsuit with UCLA doctors
August - 2016, Posted ON August 30, 2016

24th July, 2016 – Los Angeles – US: A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded $1.75 million on July 15 to two siblings who alleged UCLA doctors committed medical malpractice that resulted in the death of their mother.

Jury hits U. of C. hospital with $53 million malpractice verdict
August - 2016, Posted ON August 03, 2016

1st July, 2016 - Chicago – US: A Cook County jury has awarded $53 million to a 12-year-old Hickory Hills boy and his mother in a 2013 lawsuit filed against the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was born with a serious brain injury.

The jury's award to Lisa and Isaiah Ewing includes $28.8 million for future caretaking expenses, according to a copy of the jury verdict form provided by their lawyers, Geoffrey Fieger of suburban Detroit and Jack Beam of Chicago. Isaiah has severe cerebral palsy, is in a wheelchair, and needs his mother to feed and clothe him.

Lake County jury awards $1.67 million in medical malpractice suit
August - 2016, Posted ON August 13, 2016

11th July, 2016 – US: A Lake County jury has awarded an 84-year-old woman $1.67 million in damages from a Waukegan hospital for a botched knee replacement surgery in October 2009.

Medical malpractice case settled for $6 million
August - 2016, Posted ON August 06, 2016

8th July, 2016 - Mercer, Atlanta – US: Leigh A. Isaacs initiated the action in response to the death of her husband, Harold D. Isaacs Jr. of New Wilmington, who died at age 41 on June 21, 2013.

A notice of intent to sue was filed June 19, 2015, in Mercer County Common Pleas Court against Dr. Joseph J. Wizorek, UPMC Horizon in Greenville and University of Pittsburgh Physicians, but the parties reached the settlement in May without a formal complaint being filed.

Medical malpractice lawsuits nearly impossible to win in Wisconsin
August - 2016, Posted ON August 10, 2016

9th July, 2016 – US: Seven hundred deaths a day from medical mistakes. New research shows that's how many Americans are dying due to medical errors. The I-Team looked into malpractice deaths in Wisconsin and talked to victims who say state laws make it nearly impossible to right the wrongdoing.

Medical Malpractice Settlements Reached Against Michigan Cancer Doctor
August - 2016, Posted ON August 19, 2016

15th July, 2016 – Michigan – US: Patients who filed medical malpractice claims against Detroit-area oncologist Farid Fata and three Michigan hospitals will receive settlements totaling $8 million.The settlements were approved July 20 in Oakland County Circuit Court. They will be distributed by an arbitrator later this year to about 40 people.

Reinsurer not liable for medical malpractice award
August - 2016, Posted ON August 22, 2016

15th July, 2016 – US: A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that an XL Group P.L.C. unit was not obligated to defend nor indemnify a medical malpractice insurer under an errors & omissions clause in its reinsurance policy in a case involving the med mal insurer's refusal to settle litigation.

Doctors In China Get Attacked So Often They Now Need Armed Police Guards August - 2016, Posted ON August 16, 2016

Dodgy doctor jailed for sexually assaulting patients and filming them changing August - 2016, Posted ON August 18, 2016

Dr. George Gough loses medical malpractice suit August - 2016, Posted ON August 24, 2016

Goshen couple wins $4.25 million in medical malpractice case August - 2016, Posted ON August 26, 2016

Jury awards siblings $1.75M in malpractice lawsuit with UCLA doctors August - 2016, Posted ON August 30, 2016

Jury hits U. of C. hospital with $53 million malpractice verdict August - 2016, Posted ON August 03, 2016

Lake County jury awards $1.67 million in medical malpractice suit August - 2016, Posted ON August 13, 2016

Medical malpractice case settled for $6 million August - 2016, Posted ON August 06, 2016

Medical malpractice lawsuits nearly impossible to win in Wisconsin August - 2016, Posted ON August 10, 2016

Medical Malpractice Settlements Reached Against Michigan Cancer Doctor August - 2016, Posted ON August 19, 2016

Reinsurer not liable for medical malpractice award August - 2016, Posted ON August 22, 2016