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Recently Posted Legal Case Studies

 March 2009 Failure to Check Prescription for Morphine at Time of Admission - Woman Suffers Morphine Toxicity and Dies - Confidential Settlement With Nursing Home - $600,000 Verdict Against Hospital Where Order Originated.

February 2009 Failure to Inform Woman That Tests Show Baby Carries a Form of Sickle Cell Disease - Woman Claims She Would Have Aborted the Child If She Had Known of Disease - $2.45 Million Verdict.

January 2009 Failure to Have Proper Assessment of Man's Leg Pain to Diagnose Arterial Occlusion - Above-Knee Amputation Required - $2.4 Million Verdict, but High-Low Agreement Applies.

December 2008 Failure to Diagnose Heart Attack - Woman Found Dead Five Days Later - $280,000 Missouri Settlement.

November 2008 Improper Discharge of Teenager After Septoplasty Surgery - Death Blamed on Excessive Demerol - Confidential Settlement.

October 2008 Failure to Respond to Resident's Complaints of Dizziness and Nausea - Death From Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage With Allegations of Attempted Cover-Up by Facility - $54 Million New Mexico Verdict Includes $50 Million in Punitive Damages.

September 2008 Failure to Refer to Specialist for Continuing Complaints Relative to Nose and Sinuses - Sino-Nasal Cancer Leads to Death of Teenager - $1.5 Million Settlement.

August 2008 Nurse Administers Epidural Medication Intravenously - Death of Teenage Mother - Baby Successfully Delivered - $1.9 Million Present Value Structured Settlement.

July 2008 Failure to Hospitalize Woman Pregnant With Twins and Reporting Pain Thought to be Labor at Twenty-Eight Weeks Gestation - Fully Dilated by Time of Arrival at Hospital - One Twin Suffers Intraventricular Bleeding Due to Prematurity - $2.2 Million Sett

June 2008 Failure to Properly: Diagnose and Treat Asthmaticus, Intubate Patient, Properly Sedate Patient, Administer Oxygen, Administer Correct Amounts of Medication, Follow Hospital's Protocols and Standards of Care - Death - $3,500,000 Verdict.

May 2008 Failure to Remove Sponge During Cesarean Section and Failure to Refer to Other Physicians When Complaints Are Made $375,000 Total Recovery.

April 2008 Failure to Timely Respond to Respiratory Distress Blamed for Death - $2.2 Million Verdict Set Aside on Motion JNOV.

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CONGRATS!!!!!!! . And i guess there's no need to send you this too  http://nursinglink.monster.com/news/articles/6519-nurse-to-stand-trial-in-boys-morphine-death

 I think you should check the state of Nevada.  We have had some whoppers.  Like the Hep C outbreak because of re-using single use vials and double dipping needles in them during colonoscopies.!!  This  is just going to court but has gone on over years.  There are several doctors being sued individually.   

Personally, I had a letter from an out patient surgery center where I had a procedure done that said they had not been sterilizing their equipment correctly so I needed to be checked for Hep C and AIDS!  That was a scary time period.  Fortunately, I'm good and have a clean bill of health.  

Health care in this state is very scary to say the least.