Maryland Personal Injury Lawyer Blog

The first individual lawsuit filed by a hepatitis C infected patient at a Medical Center was filed in district court naming the hospital and anestesiologist. The patient underwent surgery and believes an operating rooom technician, an intravenous drug user with hep-c, left a dirty needle filled with saline in place of the narcotic intended for her.The patient alleges the hospital and anestesiologist failed to follow internal polices and controlled substance laws requiring that potent drugs be either locked up or closely monitored.
Her lawyer stated we have filed this suit on behalf of the patient because she is unable to undergo medical treatment for her chronic hepatitis C and has already developed liver damage. A class action suit against the hospital has also been filed and at least 18 other patients have been found to have the same genetic strand of hep-c as the operating room technician. The technician was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

If you or a loved one has been a victim of medical malpractice please call me for an initial free consultation at 800 320-0080 or for an appointmnet in Rockville or Baltimore offices.

A man paralyzed in a tubing accident sued a ski resort for 25 million dollars.His lawye said the man zipped headfirst down the tubing course through the rubber mats intended to slowhim down and crashed headfirst into a cement wall. The man is now paralyzed from the waist down.
According to the association 39 skiers and snowboarders suffered fatal injuries during the 2008-09 season in which 10 million people skied. But lawsuits for ski resorts are not unusual. This lawsuit argues that the resort was negligent in setting up and operating the snow tube runs and accuses the resort of "failure to design a barrier wall with sufficient safety protection". The lawyer further states that more advanced technology was available but wasnt in place and the existing barier had some pading but lacked sufficient give to save his client.
The lawsuit asks for 25 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages.The 55 year old victim will need a lifetime of care and medical bills and needs a full time aid also.

If you or a loved one has been a victim of negligence resulting in injury please call my office at 1 800 320-0080 for a free consultation.

St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson is facing lawsuits and two federal investigations related to its cardiac care division has just informed 169 more heart patients received costly and dangerous treatments that were not needed.
These additional cases bring the total to 538 patients notified by St. Joseph's that coronary stent implants they received at the hospital may have been unnecessary. Officials at the Hospital also said more questionable procedures may be uncovered while an internal review continues.
The St. Joseph's announcement is the latest debacle in an issue that has spawned a class action lawsuit, required the removal of a prominent physician and interested the U.S. Senate. It could also result in a multi-million dollar fine for the hospital per court records.
The hospital began investigating its heart catheterization procedures after several warnings last year from federal investigators and quickly focused on stents implanted by a leading cardiologist and senior physician, Dr. Mark Midei.
Stents, which are mesh tubes placed into damaged arteries to open them up are generally implanted in patients with at least a 70% blockage. But hospital officials in their review discovered stents implanted by Dr. Midei had insufficient blockage. And that the amount of blockage was overstated in the medical reports.
"Leaders of (St. Joseph) felt it was their ethical responsibility to notify these patients to allow them to determine if medical follow-up was appropriate." The hospital said in a statement. They reiterated that Midei (who is no longer at the hospital) is the only doctor under investigation.
In 2008 Midei was recruited to lead the cardiac catheterization department at St. Josephs from his former employer MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates of suburban Baltimore.
Last month the U.S. Senate Finance Committee requested St. Joseph to turn over all the records of its financial relationship with stent manufactures and how the $10,000 procedures were billed to federal and private insurers.
"In addition to putting the patients lives at risk unnecessary medical procedures amount to wasteful spending of precious federal health care dollars." Said the U.S. Senate in a letter to the hospital.
If you or a loved one is the victim of a medical mistake please call my office at 1 (800) 320-0080.

In December 2004, a man was severely injured when the tire of his car got caught on a six-inch lip on the roadside and he lost control crashing into a guardrail that impaled the vehicle. The man was left with a amputated left leg and an almost severed left arm. He sued the county that was responsible for maintaining the road, and won a verdict of $31 million.

Days after the verdict, the county's insurer sued the county claiming that it should not have to pay because the county's attorney did not properly prepare for trial or adequately update the insurance company. The county claims that the case was handled properly and that the insurance company only voiced its concerns after the verdict. Meanwhile, the man continues to have pain from the accident and cannot receive the medical treatment he needs until the judgement is paid.

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The parents of two 18-year-old cousins are suing a hotel owner and employee for wrongful death after their daughters were killed in a fire. The suit alleges that a maintenance man, who worked and lived at the hotel even though his work visa was expired, left his room with incense burning for about 30 minutes. When he returned the room was on fire. The employee tried to extinguish the flames with a small fire extinguisher that didn't work and then went to look for another extinguisher. By the time he returned the fire was too big to extinguish. The girls were trapped in their room and died in the fire.

The parents allege that the employee and motel management failed to properly respond to the fire, failed to maintain fire extinguishers at the motel, failed to notify authorities of the fire fast enough and failed to warn guests. The suit also is against other defendants, whose identities were unknown to the plaintiff, including the motel's insurance company, any entity that did maintenance or repair work at the motel and the manufacturer and/or distributor of the fire extinguisher that failed to work.

These types of lawsuits require extensive research and investigation and require the assistance of many experts to determine the causes of the injury and negligence. We regularly employ experts and investigators to fully and appropriately evaluate cases that we take in our office before any action is taken to determine the best and most economically viable avenue to prosecute cases similar to this or yours. If you or a loved one has been injured by negligence of another call for a free consultation.

For all your legal needs or inquiries call my offices located in Baltimore and Rockville, Maryland at (800)320-0080 for an appointment and immdeiate answers.

In 2007, a 17-year-old girl, was refused a liver transplant by her health insurance company. The transplant was denied because the health insurance company said that it was experimental and was not covered. After a storm of publicity, the health insurance company agreed to the transplant nine days later but it was too late and the 17-year-old girl died a few hours later. Ten months later, the deceased' mother went to the insurance company's headquarters and announced at the security desk in the lobby that "You guys killed my daughter. I want an apology." Instead of an apology, she got heckeled by insurance employees looking down into the atrium lobby from a balcony above and one of them gave her the "finger."

The child's parents parents filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the insurance company's for their child's death due to insurance company's refusal to pay for the transplant. A Los Angeles judge threw out the complaint, saying that it was barred by a 1987 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that shields employer-paid healthcare plans from damages over their coverage decisions. Under the 1974 Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA, the only monetary damages that beneficiaries of workplace health plans can sue for is the cost of the treatment of service in dispute, not damages arising out of refusal of the treatment.

Recently, a U.S. District Court Judge ruled that the parents could pursue damages for any emotional distress caused by the incident at the insurance company's headquarters. The parent's of the child are hoping that by bringing the wrongful-death suit the legislature will see that ERISA needs to be revised and that insurance companies need to be liable for their treatment decisions.

If you or a loved one has been injured by delay in coverage by health insurance companies or have been injured by negligence of a third person call my Rockville or Baltimore offices for an initial case review and consultation at 1-800-320-0080.