Medical Malpractice

• MRSA - Is patient health being risked for the sake of a hospital's reputation?

  Steve Lombardi | October 17, 2007 1:34 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  It's about time the blue suits running your hospital took a back seat to the doctors who know about health. If you were a patient in a hospital and the hospital staff knew that other patients had contracted an infectious disease called MRSA, before you checked in would you want to be warned about what you could do to protect yourself? MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus is an...

• Iowa Malpractice Verdict Against Hospital

  Steve Lombardi | September 23, 2007 12:00 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  A jury awarded $13.5 million in damages against Broadlawns Hospital. Young Nathan Gardner has a terrible condition that will be with him the remainder of his life. And his parents will be strapped with the cost of time and money to take care of his cerebral palsy. Depriving a fetus of oxygen can cause cerebral palsy and in this case the jury saw the light of day finding liability against those...

• Woman Claims Doctor Caused Her Cancer to Spread

  Jenny Albano | September 21, 2007 9:04 PM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Lavonne Schroeter is suing her doctor for medical malpractice. Allegedly her gynecologist accidentally cut open a tumor he removed from her ovary and never told her of the mistake. The tumor the doctor cut open spilled cancerous tissue in her abdomen and caused her cancer to spread.The lawsuit, filed in Polk County District Court by Lavonne Schroeter, alleges that Dr. Curtis Hoegh's negligence...

• Florida Couple Awarded $21 Million For Birth Defect Case

  Steve Lombardi | July 26, 2007 9:11 AM | 0 CommentsDes Moines, IA

  Daniel and Amara Estrada sued Dr. Boris Kousseff for failing to correctly diagnose the birth defect in their first child. They claim that if their first child had been correctly diagnosed with Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (the inability to produce or synthesize cholesterol), they would have tested their second child for the same defect before he was born. The couple says that if their unborn...