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Hurley McKenna & Mertz filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in 2020 on behalf of Pierce and his wife against Fresenius Medical Care of Illinois, RenalCare Associates and Cherukuri. ...
Doctors' groups, patients, and insurance companies have criticized medical malpractice litigation as expensive, adversarial, unpredictable, and inefficient. They claim that the cost of medical malpractice litigation in the United States has steadily increased at almost 12 percent annually since 1975. [26]
Wellpath is named in 1,000 federal lawsuits, pending and closed, across the United States and accused of contributing to at least 70 deaths, a CNN investigation revealed in 2019. In Charlotte’s ...
Association of American Medical Colleges was an antitrust class-action lawsuit that alleged collusion to prevent American trainee doctors from negotiating for better working conditions. The working conditions of medical residents often involved 80- to 100-hour workweeks. [ 1 ]
The lawsuit is seeking damages of at least $50,000 in her wrongful death. Colby was the president and CEO of Silver Cross Hospital , according to a Facebook post by the hospital the day of her death.
[18] Following a ruling by the Illinois Supreme Court stating that HMOs could be sued, as opposed to only doctors, Scruggs led a new set of lawsuits against American HMOs. [19] In June 2004, Scruggs also led a lawsuit against 13 non-profit hospital groups, alleging they hoarded funds gained from tax breaks while dispensing inadequate care. [20]
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At the beginning of the lawsuit, it may be impossible to determine which medical professional was negligent, so all persons who treated the plaintiff must be sued. However, the hospital records available to the plaintiff may be limited or unintelligible, and the hospital that does have the records may refuse to release them unless litigation is ...