Hospital

Lawsuit Over Bible in Veterans Hospital Can Move Forward, Judge Says

MANCHESTER, N.H. – A lawsuit over a Bible on display at a memorial for POWs at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center can move forward, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Vice President Pence sent a firm message to the Manchester VA hospital in remarks he made last month at The American Legion’s national convention in Indianapolis. “You might’ve heard even today that there’s a lawsuit to remove a …


Hospital Giant Sutter Health Faces Legal Reckoning Over Medical Pricing

If the case is successful, he predicted, healthcare prices could drop significantly in Northern California. Those higher prices trickle down to consumers in the form of higher premiums. Altogether, the plaintiffs allege, such tactics are anti-competitive and have allowed Sutter to drive up the cost of care in Northern California. “All the other hospitals want to emulate [Sutter] to get those …


Sage Settles Lawsuit for $200 Million

Sage Memorial Hospital in Ganado, Arizona, has settled its lawsuit against the Indian Health Service for $200 million, according to a press release from Razaghi Health Care, the hospital’s management company. Entrance to Sage Memorial Hospital. (Times file photo – Donovan Quintero) The hospital had sued the IHS in 2013 after the government agency terminated its PL 93-638 contract, citing an …


Woman Launches $1M Lawsuit Against Hospital After Nurse Allegedly Used Her File to Get Drugs

A two month stay at Brampton Civic Hospital has turned into a traumatic ordeal that Valerie Darrah says she can’t forget, so she’s suing the William Osler Health System — the organization that operates the hospital. Last June, Darrah’s friend brought her to the hospital where she fainted. The 78-year-old then remembers waking up a few days later in the intensive care unit attached to machines.


Lawsuit Claims Prescription Dog Food Contains No Medicine

Some of the largest pet food suppliers in the country have been overcharging pet owners by charging more for prescription dog food when it doesn’t actually include any medicine, according to a Greenville lawyer who is working on a class-action lawsuit against those pet food manufactures. Lynwood Evans, a lawyer at Ward and Smith P.A.’s Greenville office, is working on the lawsuit along with …


Hood Lawsuit Settlements Bring $34.4 Million

Attorney General Jim Hood announced Thursday that $34.4 million recovered mostly from a lawsuit settlement with the Moody’s Corporation was delivered to the state treasury. Hood had announced in January the state would receive more …


Jury Awards Woman $13.75 Million in Lawsuit Over Care

An Aiken County jury returned a $13.75 million verdict Wednesday against Aiken Regional Medical Centers in a case in which a woman lost both legs above the knee, her left arm below the elbow and the tips of her fingers on her right hand. The jury found the hospital was “grossly negligent or reckless, willful or wanton in its acts or omissions” in the case of Seletha Gartrell, a 54-year-old …



Calwell Woman Settles Lawsuit Against Canberra Hospital, Doctors for $12m

A Calwell woman who was suing the Canberra Hospital and two doctors over alleged failures stemming from migraine drug treatment has settled the case for $12 million. It had been alleged that as a result of the alleged failures, Stacey Louise Cave, 40, suffered a stroke and brain damage, and was left dependent on a wheelchair. The case stemmed from Ms Cave’s use of the drug Deseril over many …


Great-Grandma Killed by Allergic Reaction to Antibiotic at Hospital: Lawsuit

An allergic reaction to an antibiotic administered at a Sycamore hospital killed a Plainfield great-grandmother, according to a lawsuit filed in Will County court. Brian Pickle, the son of Lydia Pickle, is suing Kindred Hospital, three doctors and Fox Valley Medical Associates. Lydia Pickle was admitted to Kindred Hospital on Jan. 10, 2015, “for treatment related to her diagnosis …