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A jury in Tennessee returned a verdict of $7.8 million in damages on a lawsuit involving a child who suffered brain damage as a result of improper hospital treatment. The hospital errors included failure to administer proper medications, which led to brain damage. The suit was filed against the Dyersburg Regional Medical Center. The lawsuit, filed by the family of a 12-year-old boy, alleged that the victim received treatment in

The family of a patient waiting for a kidney transplant must have felt great relief when their loved one was about to receive a kidney from a living donor. Unfortunately, the mishandling of the organ by healthcare professionals at the University of Toledo resulted in the cancellation of the surgery as the kidney was judged to be unusable. The living-donor transplant program at the University’s Medical Center was suspended as

Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center agreed to a $1.25 million dollar settlement last week to compensate the family of a Cleveland, Ohio, man left with a brain injury after an apparent hospital error. The suit was filed in 2010 by the victim’s mother, who asserted in her suit that her son received improper medical care during surgery for testicular cancer. She claimed that various hospital errors led to cardiac