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The results can be disastrous when a hospital or medical professionals act improperly when it comes to treating a patient’s medical condition; a patient can sometimes even lose their life as a result of such negligent conduct. A verdict was recently reached in a wrongful death case that involved alleged negligent treatment at an…

Congressional hearings are underway this week to investigate how long General Motors knew about the ignition switch problem before it initiated the first wave of recalls earlier this year. Documents obtained by media outlets reveal that GM learned of the defect as early as 2001, during the pre-production testing of the Saturn Ion. The following year,…

At health care facilities, such as hospitals and rehabilitation centers, nurses have a vital role in the care of patients. Thus, when nurses engage in negligent conduct when caring for patients or facilities fail to provide their nurses with proper training, patients can suffer greatly. Losses of life sometimes even occur as a result of…

Spinal cord injuries can alter a person’s life forever; they can sometimes cause a person to become paralyzed or to suffer other serious disabilities. One of the things that sometimes leads to a person suffering a disabling spinal cord injury is when a doctor makes a mistake when operating near a person’s spinal cord….

Recently, in another state, a verdict was reached in a wrongful death case involving a misdiagnosis. The case involved a man who died while he was sleeping in his home in August 2006. According to medical examiners, the man died of the heart ailment myocarditis. Not long before his death, the man had visited…

Last month, General Motors Corp. recalled more than 1,000,000 Chevrolet Cobalts and certain Pontiac and Saturn vehicles to repair an ignition switch problem. The defect can allow the key to slip from its “run” position under certain foreseeable operating conditions. This defect can cause an engine shutdown and loss of power steering, brakes, and…

During some medical and surgical procedures, doctors will provide patients with an oxygen supply. Given the rather combustible nature of oxygen, it is very important for hospitals and medical professionals to make sure to not commit any negligence that could create a fire hazard when performing procedures in which an oxygen supply is being…

Even in the best of circumstances, fighting cancer is a harrowing thing. Thus, the last thing cancer victims need is for their challenge to be made even more difficult by negligence by doctors. One type of doctor error that can be very impactful on cancer victims is a diagnosis error. One important thing for…

A woman who went in for an abortion died as a result. Since the woman’s death, a lawsuit was filed against Illinois Planned Parenthood for hospital negligence. A settlement was reached in this case, and the company agreed to pay the family $2 million. Back in 2012, the woman was in her second trimester…

One type of harm that sometimes results from errors by medical professionals or hospitals during a surgery is nerve damage. Nerve damage can have many impacts on the life of a surgical patient; for example, it can sometimes impair their mobility. Mobility impairments can cause a person to face many costs, including costs for…