$15M Award Jabs Emory Healthcare in Trial over Patient's Paralyzing Fall
May 3, 2016
Jurors Monday found Emory Healthcare liable for $15 million in damages for its role in the fall that paralyzed a patient during a routine blood draw.
Apr 28, 2016
Jurors will determine the amount Emory Healthcare owes a man for a paralyzing fall he suffered during a routine blood draw, as trial opened Tuesday against the healthcare provider.
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Mar 31, 2016
An emergency room doctor acted recklessly in treating a child’s diabetic complications, ultimately worsening brain swelling that led to her death, a pediatric physician told jurors Wednesday as trial continued in the suit against the ER doctor and...
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Mar 24, 2016
Whether an ER doctor recklessly engaged in “cell phone medicine” that caused a girl’s death from diabetes complications ignited a fiery debate between attorneys Wednesday as trial opened in a suit by the girl’s parents.
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VERDICT UPDATE: $1.2M Award Hits Hospital, ER Doc Cleared of Fault in Georgia Med Mal Stroke Case
Feb 26, 2016
Jurors begin deliberations this morning over responsibility for the strokes that left an emergency room patient with permanent brain damage, a day after closing arguments in which attorneys debated whether the ER staff properly treated the woman.
Feb 19, 2016
Attorneys Wednesday sparred over responsibility for the strokes that caused lifelong brain damage to a Georgia woman as trial opened in her husband’s suit against the emergency room physicians that treated her.
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Feb 11, 2016
Trial is scheduled to begin next week in a suit by a man who claims a Conyers hospital’s medical staff failed to properly treat his wife’s brain aneurysm in time to prevent a series of strokes that caused her life-long brain damage.
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Jan 14, 2016
Top defense attorneys won key CVN-covered trials throughout Georgia in 2015. CVN Georgia's 2015 Defense Attorney of the Year earned the honor going undefeated in two major medical malpractice trials in front of CVN cameras.
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As Atlanta Brain Injury Med Mal Trial Opens, Doctors' Response to Patient's Oxygen Loss Questioned
Jan 14, 2016
Whether the catastrophic brain damage an Alpharetta woman suffered during a lung procedure was reasonably preventable became the key question presented to jurors as trial began against the anesthesiologists involved in the surgery.
Dec 22, 2015
Two physicians prevailed Friday against a patient’s claim that she suffered a catastrophic stroke because of their failure to properly treat her.
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Dec 16, 2015
A jury Monday cleared a pain management physician of liability for a patient’s debilitating spinal injury.
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Dec 16, 2015
The surgeon who inserted a blood clot-capturing filter soon after a Florida woman suffered a devastating stroke told jurors Tuesday the filter was not typically the first line of treatment for such clots, as the defense presents its case at trial ...
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