Medical Malpractice | InjuryBoard Stoughton / Canton

In todays Wall Street Journal, it was reported that a lawsuit has been brought by a former Medtronics attorney that alleges that the company(a medical device maker), provided surgeons with...

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In a spectacular decision this week affirming victims rights, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that damages are recoverable where a physicians negligence reduced the decedents chance...

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Why should anyone fall seven times in a nursing home??Seems like a reasonable question...one asked by a client of ours when his mother died after seven falls from her wheelchair. Unfortunately, the decedent had never been evaluated as a fall risk, nor had the client been consulted about a possible safety restraint, known as a "lap buddy" that could have prevented the death.When you admit a...

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My own personal experience this weekend served to remind me how and why it is so difficult to get jurors in medical negligence cases to appreciate and acknowledge the concept of preventable medical error.My mother in law is battling an agressive lymphoma and received last chance chemotherapy treatments over the weekend. The care she received from her caregivers was compassionate and remarkable....

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A Worcester Superior Court jury awarded $2.5 million in damages to a Massachusetts woman misdiagnosed with HIV. She was given a powerful array of drug treatments for nearly nine years before discovering she was misdiagnosed.The malpractice lawsuit alleged the doctor, at University of Massachusetts Medical Center, failed to order the proper tests to confirm the diagnosis even after several blood...

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