A Livingston High School student who suffered nerve damage during a biopsy to her leg and was forced to attend her prom in a wheelchair has been awarded a $1.2 million by a jury in her medical malpractice lawsuit, her lawyer said. Samantha Alpert, now 22, had been an all-star tennis player at…(Read More)

A Bluefield woman was awarded nearly $5.8 million last week, after a jury found that a doctor damaged nerves in her throat and caused her “permanent, severe and debilitating” injuries that required a tracheotomy. One of Dominique Adkins’ lawyers said the jury award was one of the largest in the state since 2003, when…(Read More)

Capital Health lost a medical malpractice lawsuit on Tuesday when a civil trial by jury ordered the health system to pay over $6 million in damages to the estate of a Trenton woman who died as a direct result of paramedic misconduct.  A week after giving birth to a premature baby, 20-year-old Toniquea…(Read More)

The estate of a man who died of a brain bleed has been awarded $2.6 million as the result of a medical malpractice lawsuit, the New London Day reported. The case was set to go to trial this summer. Attorney Kelley E. Reardon said Gary Wheelis, 63, died at the William W. Backus Hospital…(Read More)

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A jury has awarded more than $20 million to the family of a woman who died days after giving birth to her son at a Minneapolis hospital. The verdict in Hennepin County District Court Monday is the result of a lawsuit by Nicole Bermingham’s family against a nurse and Emergency Care Consultants…(Read More)