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PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania Hospital is seeking to dismiss litigation from the estate of a man who claimed negligence on the part of hospital doctors led to the amputation of the decedent’s legs.
HARRISBURG – The failure to request an itemized verdict slip has cost the defendants in a medical malpractice lawsuit $3.8 million, per a ruling from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
One of 350 lawsuits against a Jacksonville surgeon claims a woman died while in surgery under Dr. R. David Heekin at Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside Hospital
Patient’s terminal illness does not give rise to wrongful death claim they would have lived longer had life-extending treatment begun earlier, high court says.
Any death is a tragedy. Perhaps more so when it is unexpected, compounded further by another’s negligence, neglect or inattention. While the law certainly cannot raise those sadly taken, what it can do is help...