Medical Malpractice

• The Dangers of Coumadin

  Halli Brownfield | January 05, 2009 9:37 AM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH

  Spangenberg partners, Rhonda Baker Debevec and Stuart Scott, recently handled two separate malpractice cases for clients who suffered severe bleeding complications related to a commonly prescribed...

• Nurse to Patient Ratios and Quality Health Care in Ohio

  Nick DiCello | July 30, 2008 10:43 AM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH

  In 2004, California passed a law setting minimum nurse to patient ratios for hospitals. The law was passed in response to studies and data suggesting that the more patients a nurse has to care...

• Hospital Acquired Infection Lawsuits on the Rise

  Halli Brownfield | December 02, 2008 11:30 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The Wisconsin Law Journal reports that a new type of medical malpractice lawsuits are on the rise. These suits allege hospital negligence in failing to prevent hospital acquired infections....

• Apologies from Doctors for Medical Errors Reduce Lawsuits

  Nick DiCello | May 21, 2008 9:26 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  People who believe they have been injured by another's negligence or reckless conduct often want an apology from the responsible party. Too often, however, as a lawyer, I have to advise clients...

• Medicare, Others Won't Pay for Medical Errors

  Nick DiCello | October 03, 2008 2:59 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will no longer pay for care resulting from certain medical errors widely seen as preventable, including certain never events. For example,...

• How do I know if I have a medical malpractice case?

  Halli Brownfield | May 23, 2008 2:23 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Determining whether someone has a case for medical malpractice can be a complex and costly process. Some medical errors are obvious. Examples of these obvious mistakes are surgical instruments...

• Class Action Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Over Human Tissue Samples

  Jack Landskroner | April 07, 2007 10:41 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  Previously I have blogged about the cases we are handing on behalf of recipients of transplanted human tissue stolen from cadavers without authorization from the deceased or consent from their family members. In these cases, the billion dollar a year human tissue industry shortcutted required screening processes which would have revealed that many of the unwitting tissue donors were not viable...

• Patient Abuse Leads to Probation for University Hospitals of Cleveland

  Jack Landskroner | May 26, 2007 9:35 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The pyschiatric unit of University Hospitals of Cleveland was placed on probation by the Ohio Department of Mental Health after a grand jury indicted Herman Brown, a UH employee since April of this year, on multiple counts of rape, kidnapping, gross sexual imposition and sexual battery. "The hospital on May 18 acknowledged the rape of one patient after Brown's arrest. But the Ohio Department of...

• Doctors Get Immunity - Victims of Medical Malpractice Get the Shaft

  Jack Landskroner | December 14, 2006 9:19 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  The Ohio Supreme Court issued its opinion this week in Theobald .v University of Cincinnati, granting blanket immunity from liability to physicians for their negligent acts when the medical malpractice occurs while the physician is teaching medical students or residents of a state medical school. It makes no difference whether the doctor is being paid privately or whether the doctor is acting...

• Prosecution of Body Parts Snatchers Moving Ahead

  Jack Landskroner | August 11, 2006 5:20 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH

  For those recipients of allograft tissue transplants taken illegally from cadavers in NY and NJ, you'll be happy to learn that one of the target criminal defendants has apparently entered into an agreement to cooperate in the investigation and prosecution of the other defendants including the alleged mastermind behind the scam, Michael Mastromarino. Mastromarino and three other defendants...