Retired Army captain Jon Dale Jones is being sued for personal injury by several people who claim that he infected them with hepatitis. He was arrested in March on federal charges of assault and possession of a controlled substance by fraud. Staff Sgt. Ivan James Westrick and at least seven…
The Drug Enforcement Administration says that two doctors who gave movie star Heath Ledger prescription drugs have been cleared of any wrongdoing related to the movie star’s death. Ledger was found dead in his New York apartment of a prescription medicine overdose on January 22. An autopsy concluded that Ledger…
Jury selection in the wrongful death of actor John Ritter began in Los Angeles County Superior Court today. Ritter died at age 54 in September 2003 after he was treated in a Burbank emergency room for a heart attack when he actually had an aortic dissection. His family claims that…
In Maryland, the surviving family members of Nicole Letrice Smith,22, filed a medical malpractice complaint saying that the improper medical care that Smith received at Union Memorial Hospital following a 2006 car accident was the cause of her death. The complaint was filed with the state’s Health Care Alternative Dispute…
Movie star Dennis Quaid says that Cedars Sinai Medical Center was not forthcoming about its role in the accidental Heparin overdose of his newborn twins. . Quaid’s allegations follows the California Department of Public Health’s release of a 20-page report regarding the medical center’s handling of pediatric patients. In the…
A divided Maryland Court of Special Appeals says there is insufficient evidence to show that medical malpractice caused the death of Sherri Schaefer, who died of uterine cancer in 2005. She was diagnosed with the disease in 2001. Schaefer’s husband, Charles Marcantonio, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Dr. Melissa…
In Washington D.C., Howard University Hospital and Daniel and Dorothy Rosenbaum, the adult children of deceased New York Times reporter David Rosenbaum, have reached a settlement in the medical malpractice and negligence lawsuit filed against D.C. emergency workers and the hospital. The 63-year-old reporter, who had just retired after 30…
A woman infected with HIV and hepatitis from the kidney she received from a donor says she was not notified that her donor was high-risk. She also says that she previously turned down another donor due to his “lifestyle.” Her attorney in Illinois asked the Cook County Circuit Court to…
Donda West, the mother of record producer and rapper Kanye West, died on Saturday night at Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center in Marina del Ray, California due to what may have been surgical complications. Donda West, 58, had just undergone plastic surgery performed by Beverly Hills Dr. Jan Adams. Adams…
The family of a 12-year-old boy that died from a staph infection is going to sue the city of New York with a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit. Omar Rivera’s mother, Aileen Rivera, says she will sue the city because doctors at Kings County Hospital Center misdiagnosed his illness. Omar…