Sentences with phrase «negligence during surgery»

A Fresno Superior Court jury awarded $ 68 million (including $ 12.39 million in punitive damages) to the family of Silvino Perez, ruling that Dr. Pervaiz Chaudhry was responsible for putting Mr. Perez into a coma as a result of his negligence during surgery.

Do you have questions about a possible medical malpractice claim resulting from medical negligence during surgery?

Medical negligence during surgery can cause catastrophic injuries, permanent impairment and wrongful death.

For example, if a patient's chances of experiencing a known complication is 9 out of 10 regardless of whether or not there was negligence during the surgery, the patient can not sue if the complication occurs.

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Anesthesia errors are often the result of negligence on behalf of a medical professional performing a surgery, and can lead to serious complications during surgery, or, in the worst cases, death.

The insurance company took the position that, because Conners had failed to follow medical advice during his recovery from the first surgery, his negligence (and not the accident) was the cause of the nonunion, the revision surgery, and the resulting drug reaction.

Negligence by a medical professional could include an error in diagnosis, treatment or illness management, and could happen during a medical procedure, test, evaluation or surgery.

In a recent review of Ontario and British Columbia cases during the 2007 calendar year for a 2008 CLE paper we were doing on expert evidence, we found experts had testified in approximately 300 cases, and their expertise covered an astonishing array of issues - computers, chemistry, motor cycle gangs, the drug trade, mental health, weapons, alcoholism, psychiatry, orthopedic surgery, occupational therapy, appraisals, internal medicine, valuations, legal fees, negligence in relation to fires, anthropology, linguistics, demography, ecology, ethnobotany, custody and access, vocational testing, and marine surveying.»

The lawsuit alleged negligence against McKesson Medication Management LLC for failure to provide training of the nursing or medical staff regarding obtaining information about medications used during surgery, as they were required to do under their contract wit Mt. Sinai.

Medical malpractice and professional negligence can occur during surgery.

While they occur rarely, bile duct injuries can in some cases be attributed to Medical Negligence, and often the problem is worsened if it is not identified and treated during or after surgery.

After suffering negative effects from over-sedation during a knee surgery, appellee sued multiple defendants including appellant, a hospital district management contractor for negligence.

Medical negligence can also occur after the surgery during post-treatment care.