Family members of a Milwaukee man who died at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex in Wauwatosa four years ago have filed a federal lawsuit. The Milwaukee County district attorney rules that the death of a patient at the county mental health complex was not criminal. Brandon Johnson died at the facility in October 2012.
Neurosurgeon J. William Bookwalter was examining a colleague’s patient who had back troubles when he made an unusual discovery: The operation that his colleague billed Medicare for was far more extensive than the one actually done, according to allegations contained in a lawsuit. A review of two more back operations performed by UPMC neurosurgeon Ghassan Bejjani on another patient yielded the …
A state court jury has decided that the University of New Mexico Hospital is liable for not testing surgical patient James Woodard of Roswell for MRSA before his 9½-hour back …
A family is suing a Florida hospital where staff reported finding maggots while examining a 76-year-old woman. The children of Dorothy Mooneyham of Orange Park seek over $15,000 damages from the Orange Park Medical Center. In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Clay County, Mooneyham’s children say the hospital abused and neglected a vulnerable adult and intentionally inflicted emotional distress.
Northwest Hospital & Medical Center fails to properly screen poor patients eligible for charity care, instead sending their debts for collection in violation of state law, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday. The suit, filed in King County Superior Court, seeks damages on behalf of two low-income men who sought emergency services at Northwest, which is operated by UW Medicine. It …
The U.S. Justice Department has joined a whistle-blower’s lawsuit against Prime Healthcare Services alleging the hospital chain fraudulently billed Medicare for beneficiaries admitted as inpatients when they should have been treated as outpatients. The government filed notice in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Monday saying it would partly intervene in the case. Whistle-blower cases often …
Exeter Hospital has filed another lawsuit in hopes of getting others to pay for settlements it reached after a traveling medical technician infected patients with hepatitis C. David Kwiatkowski is serving 39 years in prison for stealing painkillers and replacing them with saline-filled syringes tainted with his blood. Despite being fired numerous times over drug allegations, he …
A lawsuit filed in federal court this month claims a mentally ill man incapacitated by traumatic brain injury wasn’t assessed for mental illness, nor given seizure medication, and was only discharged from the Randall County jail when it came time to pay his hospital bill. The complaint filed on behalf of the estate of Wendell Carl Simmons, now deceased, claims that inadequately trained jailers …
An attorney says the family of a woman who died during a mold outbreak at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has settled their lawsuit with the hospital network. Channel 11’s news exchange partners at TribLIVE reported that James Datillo confirmed the settlement, but not its terms on Friday. UPMC officials didn’t immediately respond to …
DENVER – A health scare at a metro Denver hospital has now resulted in a class action lawsuit against the facility’s parent company. Investigators say what happened inside an operating room at Swedish Hospital has put thousands of people at possible risk for Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV. Surgical technician Rocky Allen is accused of taking a syringe filled with Fentanyl and then putting …