£1.21m settlement for girl following botched birth injury at Croydon hospital
March - 2020, Posted ON March 13, 2020

Croydon, UK – 13th March, 2020: The child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, suffered nerve damage during her birth at Mayday Hospital, now Croydon University Hospital, in 2010.

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BHB concedes $1.9m defeat
March - 2020, Posted ON March 12, 2020

Bermuda – 12th March, 2020: The Bermuda Hospitals Board will not appeal a judge’s decision to award $1.9 million in damages for medical negligence to a man whose wife died after her cancerous tumour was missed by an emergency room doctor.

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Brian Magill's widow facing bill of £800,000 over failed medical negligence lawsuit
March - 2020, Posted ON March 06, 2020

Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK) – 6th March, 2020: A widow is facing a legal bill of nearly £800,000 from a failed medical negligence claim over her husband's death in a Belfast hospital 20 years ago.

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Busia nurse plucks off baby’s head during birth
March - 2020, Posted ON March 04, 2020

Busia, Nigeria – 4th March, 2020: Police in Busia District are investigating circumstances under which a midwife reportedly mishandled a woman in labour and the baby’s head was plucked off.

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Grieving husband 'let down' by Southmead Hospital after wife not given life-saving drug
March - 2020, Posted ON March 20, 2020

Bristol, UK – 20th March, 2020: A grieving husband feels let down by Southmead Hospital after staff failed to administer a drug that could have saved his wife’s life on time. The health board has said it accepted the findings from the coroner - who said the woman’s death was contributed by neglect - and said it was determined to learn from the case.

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Hospital service sued over mother-of-two's death for alleged medical negligence
March - 2020, Posted ON March 25, 2020

Gold Coast, Australia – 25th March, 2020: Less than a day later — and just hours after delivering her daughter Eleanor via emergency caesarean section — the young mother died of bacterial meningitis and mastoiditis because of what her widower John Petrak has alleged in a civil suit were failures at the Gold Coast University Hospital.

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Hythe man died after mistake from doctors, inquest hears
March - 2020, Posted ON March 21, 2020

Kent, UK – 21st March, 2020: A man who died from a life-threatening condition would have survived if doctors had performed a scan to identify it, an inquest heard.

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Little Company of Mary, nurse found negligent in death of Redondo Beach patient
March - 2020, Posted ON March 26, 2020

Los Angeles, US – 26th March, 2020: Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center in Torrance and a registered nurse have been found liable for the 2014 death of a Redondo Beach man who died after a feeding tube was incorrectly inserted into his lungs instead of his stomach.

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Man sues ambulance company
March - 2020, Posted ON March 30, 2020

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – 30th March, 2020: A Bulawayo patient is suing Netstar Ambulance Services for more than $300 000 after sustaining a femoral fracture when he fell off a stretcher bed while being taken out of an ambulance upon arrival at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH).

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Mother files medical malpractice lawsuit against ProMedica physician
March - 2020, Posted ON March 04, 2020

Ohio, US – 4th March, 2020: A Waterville woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in Lucas County Common Pleas Court against a ProMedica physician and several facilities claiming that staff failed to provide proper medical care, leading to the death of her newborn son.

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Nurse knocked unconscious and needed CPR after attack at Adelaide hospital, union says
March - 2020, Posted ON March 01, 2020

Adelaide, Australia – 27th February, 2020: The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) said the assault was part of "rising violence" in the city's hospitals. It said the woman was found on the floor of an elderly male patient's room last Sunday afternoon.

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Patient wins drug overdose case
March - 2020, Posted ON March 23, 2020

Harare, Zimbabwe – 23rd March, 2020: A Harare man has been awarded $20 000 compensation for taking wrong quantities of medicine after a pharmacist at a private clinic negligently mislabelled the sachets of the prescribed medication, resulting in him suffering acute kidney injuries.

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Plymouth student left paraplegic after surgeons operated on wrong vertebrae
March - 2020, Posted ON March 06, 2020

Plymouth, UK – 6th March, 2020: A high-flying Plymouth student was left paraplegic after surgeons operated on the wrong vertabrae.

Peter (not his real name) was a young academic coming to the end of his PhD when he travelled out of the region for planned neurosurgery and suffered serious spinal injuries after it went wrong.

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Trinidad: Woman who caught on fire during C-Section files lawsuit
March - 2020, Posted ON March 11, 2020

Trinidad – 11th March, 2020: Legal action has been filed against the Eastern Regional Health Authority (ERHA) by attorneys representing a woman who caught on fire while giving birth at the Sangre Grande Hospital in 2016.

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