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The Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal refers to a series of allegations of unsatisfactory conditions, treatment of patients, and management at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) in Washington, D.C., culminating in two articles published by The Washington Post in February 2007. Several cases of patient neglect and shoddy ...
Updated August 9, 2024 at 10:44 AM. A California hospital misplaced the body of a 31-year-old woman who died at the facility, leaving her family thinking she was alive and missing for a year, her ...
RaDonda L. Vaught was an American legal trial in which former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse RaDonda Vaught was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and impaired adult abuse after she mistakenly administered the wrong medication that killed a patient in 2017. [1] She was sentenced to three years' probation.
The execution of mentally retarded defendants violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. 8th. 2005. Roper v. Simmons. In a ruling that followed Wainwright (in assessing the nature of cruel and unusual punishments), children may not be given the death penalty. 1st. 2010. Graham v.
The relatives of Jesse Marie Peterson filed a lawsuit in Sacramento County on Aug. 7 against Mercy San Juan Medical Center, claiming that the hospital committed negligence in failing to notify ...
In the lawsuit, filed earlier this month, the family described the hospital’s conduct as “malicious and outrageous” and accused the facility of negligence, the negligent handling of a corpse ...
Jury Verdict Research, a database of plaintiff and defense verdicts, says awards in medical liability cases increased 43 percent in 1999, from $700,000 to $1,000,000. However, more recent research from the U.S. Department of Justice has found that median medical malpractice awards in states range from $109,000 to $195,000.
Updated August 20, 2024 at 6:14 PM. A couple has filed a lawsuit against an Atlanta hospital after they say staff members lost a piece of the husband's skull following his brain surgery. Fernando ...
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