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Posted on: Friday, April 23rd, 2010
It’s fairly well-known that a low birth weight may cause health problems. Not many people realize a larger baby may also cause problems. “Birth injuries are one of the most disturbing areas of law in which to practice. The future of that child has been compromised by carelessness or negligence. Things like that tear a family apart emotionally, mentally and physically; the guilt they feel is tremendous and they want justice for their child,” outlined Christopher Mellino, a medical malpractice lawyer, of the Mellino Law Firm LLC in Cleveland, Ohio. Birth injury medical malpractice may happen for a variety of [...]
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Posted on: Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
The last thing anyone expects a doctor to do is illegally write prescriptions. When patients OD on the drugs, this is a serious matter. This is a very bizarre case that came out of Kansas just a while back, involving a doctor and his wife/nurse. Both were indicted for directly contributing to at least 21 deaths and 68 fatal overdoses as a result of writing illegal prescriptions. They evidently also had other illegal methods to generate revenue as well, which included money laundering and defrauding health insurance. The upshot of this case is that the doctor and his nurse/wife gave [...]
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Posted on: Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
Giving birth is dangerous and if the doctor isn’t watching carefully, the baby may suffer. Lack of oxygen at birth may cause cerebral palsy. “The most common form of birth injury to babies may come in the form of three different kinds of palsy that develop over time: spastic cerebral palsy, athetoid (dyskinetic) cerebral palsy, and ataxic cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy usually is diagnosed by 3 years of age. Roughly 800,000 children and adults in the US have cerebral palsy,” explained Christopher Mellino, a medical malpractice lawyer, of the Mellino Law Firm LLC in Cleveland, Ohio. Roughly 80% of those [...]
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Posted on: Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
A football player filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against his coach. The boy had sustained a concussion that turned into permanent injuries. Sports can be dangerous for a lot of reasons, and playing football perhaps best showcases the dangers of sustaining serious concussions. In this case that I read, a football player filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the team’s doctor for mistreating his concussions of two years ago. The injured football player, who was a leading kicker in 2008, attests he received several blows to his head over the course of several games. Raymore, whose name has been changed [...]
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