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- 6/1/10 - Jury awards mother
and son $23.3 million:
Physician plans "vigorous
appeal" -
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- 5/24/10 - Insurance holders
sue board over surplus:
Malpractice fund was eyed for
budget (NH)  -
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- 5/17/10 - Smaller Risk
Retention Groups in medical
segment face M&A question -
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- 5/14/10 - Despite premium
decreases, medical
professional liability industry
profitable in 2009 -
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- 5/14/10 - New generation of
physicians choosing hospitals
over private practice -
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- 5/11/10 - Medical
Professional Liability Issues to
fuel discussion at PIAA
conference -
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- 5/10/10 - Electronic medical
orders may save lives -
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- 5/10/10 - Woman awarded
$36M malpractice verdict -
 
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- 5/4/10 - Malpractice suits
push two lawyers to the top -
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- 4/27/10 - Tort debate lives on:
Role in heath care costs
disputed -
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- 4/27/10 - Doctor fought back
by filling lawsuit -
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- 4/23/10 - Doctors work to
reduce costly patient no-shows
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- 4/19/10 - doctor sentenced to
5.5 months for fake botox -
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- 4/19/10 - Fewer medical
errors, fewer lawsuits -
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- 4/15/10 - $53.2M payout:
Woman's mom bled to death in
nursing home -
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- 4/14/10 - Doctor removes
wrong fetus, loses license -
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- 4/14/10 - Malpractice worries
help drive health costs -
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- 4/9/10 - Cap to reduce $2.5M
award in VA malpractice case -
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- 4/9/10 - High court hears
argument on future of
malpractice claims -
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- 3/29/10 - New Law Deals
Setback to Malpractice Foes
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- 3/29/10 - Parents can't sue
under Washington Law -
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- 3/24/10 - Mo. high court
narrows medical malpractice
limits -
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- 3/23/10 - Ga. Supreme Court
declares caps on damage
awards to be unconstitutional -
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- 3/17/10 - Texas Supreme
Court rules that patients can't
sue for medical errors after 10
year limit -
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-3/15/10 - Record malpractice
judgement awarded in Franklin
case -
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- 3/12/10 - Encouraging doctors
to report mistakes -
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- 3/10/10 - NH court refuses to
reconsider $110M ruling -
 
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- 3/9/10 - 11th Circuit rules
Med-mal claim is time-barred-
 
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- 3/8/10 - Malpractice caps
appear likely in Utah -
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- 3/3/10 - To settle or not settle -
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- 3/3/10 - Doctors cut back
hours when risk of malpractice
suit rises, study shows -
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- 3/1/10 - Article looks at
medical malpractice insurers'
prospects for 2010 -
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- 2/26/10 - Obama open to
curbing medical malpractice
suits -
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- 2/25/10 - 18% cost increase
with Illinois Medical Liability
Cap Struck -
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- 2/19/10 - Once more, MI high
court split 4-3 on malpractice-
 
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- 2/17/10 - Malpractice bill held
up in house: It would restore
cap for doctors -
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- 2/16/10 - Illinois supreme
court strikes down caps on
noneconomic damages -
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- 2/15/10 - 5% of doctors are
responsible for 50% of
malpractice claims -
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- 2/12/10 - Utah
legislature:$250K malpractice
cap being debated -
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- 2/11/10 - Congressman:
Medical liability insurers could
be spared in antitrust repeal
bill -
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- 2/10/10 - Post tort-reform shirt
takes hold in Texas market -
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- 2/9/10 - Antitrust exemption
repeal would likely increase
medical liability premiums,
limit competition -
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- 2/8/10 - Malpractice data
credited to Ohio's cap on
damages -
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- 2/4/10 - SC lawmakers to
discuss new lawsuit limits -
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- 2/3/10 - Ohio: Average payout
per medical professional
liability claim is $252.5K -
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- 2/1/10 - Malpractice risk
affects doctors' hours -
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- 1/21/10 - Wis. Senate votes to
expand malpractice claims -
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- 12/29/09 - Doctors' practices
challenge new ruling:  
Malpractice awards could be
unlimited in NM -
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- 12/21/09 - Family of woman
who choked during surgery
awarded $20M by Alabama
Jury -
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- 11/30/09 - $22.3M verdict
rendered in medical
negligence lawsuit -
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- 11/24/09 - Key speech on
medical errors: advocates
seeking action on issue
heartened by congressman's
talk -
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- 10/28/09 - Family awarded
$893,684 in Mercy suit -
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- 10/27/09 - Tort reform no
miracle cure: limiting liability
has limited impact on
healthcare costs -
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-10/27/09 - All Children's
Hospital to appeal negligence
verdict -
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- 10/21/09 - New malpractice
idea in health care debate -
 
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- 10/20/09 - Jury awards
$4.25M to family of woman who
died after childbirth -
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- 10/20/09 - Doctor in theft
loses medical license for now -

 
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- 10/10/09 - Wanted
Mammologists -
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- 10/10/09 - Nursing home
faces another lawsuit  -
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- 10/8/09 - Malpractice not to
blame for rising health costs,
panel says  -
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- 10/1/09 -Preventing Medical
Errors - Avoid Blame Game -

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-10/1/09 - Fort Lauderdale
attorneys win $14M verdict
against Hollywood doctor
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- 9/28/09 - Spotlight:
Malpractice Reform -
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- 9/28/09 - Board clears doctors
in Boca teen's death -
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- 9/21/09 -Trial Lawyer TV Ads
for Med Mal Lawsuits grew
1,400% -
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- 9/18/09 - Obama
administration releases details
on medical malpractice pilot
program
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- 9/17/09 - Court says insurer
(TDC) can't void malpractice
policy-
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- 9/10/09 - New nationwide poll
finds most Americans want
med mal system changes as
part of health care reform -

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- 9/3/09 - What can make a
patient's lawsuit just go away -

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- 9/4/09 - Suggestions for
health care facilities to limit
legal risks -
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- 8/31/09 - Would tort reform
make a difference in health
care? -
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- 9/2/09 - Do you find yourself
defending a lawsuit alleging
missed MI? -
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- 9/2/09 - Failure to diagnose
staph infection: $5.45M verdict -

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- 6/23/09 - Ariz. Senate OK's ER
medical malpractice bill -
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- 6/16/09 - Obama open to
reining in medical suits -
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- 6/16/09 - Medical Malpractice
survivors decry possible
stripping of rights in presidents
health care plan -
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- 6/15/09 - Malpractice bill
absent from Ariz Senate health
panel hearing -
article

- 6/12/09 - Family cites gap in
system -
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- 5/26/09 - Dr. Rosi places
blame on some parents for
their babies deaths -
article

- 3/18/09 - Democrats agree
heath reform must include
medical liability changes -
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- 3/10/09 - Preventing
contrast-associated
nephropathy -
article

- 3/9/09 - Torn tendon results in
$1.2 million settlement -
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- 3/9/09 - Seven ways to
succeed in getting sued -
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- 2/12/09 - Radiologists
overestimate their overall risk
of malpractice lawsuits in
breast imaging -
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- 5/3/10 - $18.5M awarded for
malpractice in NJ -
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- 12/28/09 - NJ $2.8M awarded
in X-ray damages 3 woman
injured -
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-12/22/09 - Tort reform is the
key to a healthier New Jersey -
 
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- 2/17/10 - NJ jury awards $25M
to Ala. man in Accutane suit -
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- 2/1/10 - Doctor who removed
the wrong lung, killed patient
working again at Hoboken
University Medical Center -
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- 12/15/09 - NJ targets
doctor-drugmaker ties -
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- 12/15/09 - NJ bill would limit
rate hikes for medical
malpractice insurance -
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- 12/14/09 - NJ abortion clinic
settles lawsuit -
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- 12/3/09 - NJ hospital margins
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- 11/27/09 - NJ doctor now
faces a charge of fraud -
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- 10/14/09 - NJ School, doctor
sued over player's death -

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- 10/1/09 - NJ Hospital to pay
$8.3M for alleged Kickbacks -

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- 9/22/09 - New Jersey
Governor signs landmark
hospital law
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- 8/10/09 - Patient sues NJ doc
in hepatitis B outbreak case -

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- 7/24/09 - $75M malpractice
award overturned in NJ -
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- 7/15/09 - NJ alleges $8.5M
fraud by surgeon and his
treatment center -
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- 5/20/09 - Jury awards $2.4M
in teen's death ER doc found
negligent -
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- 5/7/09 - NJ hospital, others
sued for losing baby's corpse -
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- 4/7/09 - Doctor in NJ Hep B
case has medical license
suspended -
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- 3/31/09 - 2 NJ hospitals battle
in court over 'top doc' ads -
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- 5/24/10 - Woman with cancer
sues W-B General Hospital
doctors (PA) -
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- 5/18/10 - Medical malpractice
filings fall in Lacawanna, but
many say more reforms
necessary -
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- 5/10/10 - Mistrial declared in
malpractice case after doctor
faints -
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- 4/22/10 - Jury awards widow
$1.2M in malpractice trial -
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- 4/22/10 - Malpractice suits
drops in state: Tort reform,
passed in 2003, credited for
fewer filings -
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4/16/10 - PA ordered to add
$800M to malpractice fund -
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- 3/29/10 - PA Neurologist
facing drug charges -
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- 3/25/10 - Ex-nurse gets 7-20
years in Pa. boy's death -
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- 3/19/10 - Unusual damages
set in Phila. bedsores case -
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- 3/16/10 - Ohio woman says
Pa. doc gave wrong breast
implants -
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- 3/12/10 - Jury awards $95
million in case of killer
Pennsylvania nurse -  
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- 2/22/10 - Wrongful death suit
filed against Uniontown
Hospital -
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- 1/19/10 - Penn appeals court
finds HRT claim isn't time
barred -
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- 1/18/10 - Former nurse
convicted in PA boy's morphine
death -
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- 2/12/10 - Pennsauken doctor
arrested -
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- 2/8/10 - 2 accuse UPMC,
surgeon of malpractice in
transplant -
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- 2/4/10 - Hospital ignored
policy in Rivera death -
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- 2/3/10 - Hospital, doctors
sued over late Steelers death -
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- 2/1/10 - Carbon County doctor
faces charges of sexually
assaulting patient -
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- 1/28/10 - Doctor cleared in
malpractice lawsuit -
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- 12/11/09 - Uniontown
Hospital sued in death of
woman's husband -
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- 12/9/09 - Brownsville woman
files lawsuit because legs
partially amputated -
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-11/27/09 - Claims against
Phila. VA up to $58M -
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- 11/20/09 - PA Jury clears
Geisinger in mother of four's
death -
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- 11/9/09 - PA jury awards
$2.3M to Fayette County
woman in medical malpractice
case -
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- 9/15/09 - Organ donor case to
move to court -
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- 8/31/09 - Accused Ligonier
doctor loses license, faces
criminal charges
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- 8/10/09 - PA heart surgery
death rates fall -
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- 7/7/09 - Community Medical
Center penalty cut $2.2M -
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- 6/24/09 - Specter plans
hearing on VA prostate cancer
treatment -
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- 6/22/09 - Feds see wider
woes in VA's cancer errors -
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- 5/20/09 - Man gets $1.5M from
Latrobe Area hospital in death
of wife -
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- 5/11/09 - Doctor asks court to
overturn malpractice verdict -
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- 5/5/09 - Lawsuits against
doctors decline -
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- 4/27/09 - Malpractice suits fall
in PA, easing insurance crisis -
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- 4/20/09 - Malpractice case to
go to jury -
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- 12/12/08 - MCare sued by
doctors and hospitals - see

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- 11/18/08 - $20.5 million
payout in medical malpractice
case - see
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General News
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
- 6/1/10 - NYC Hospital wins
kidney transplant-cancer
lawsuit -
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- 5/24/10 - Court says St.
Vincent's can sell hospice unit
for $9M -
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- 5/17/10 - Jury convicts cancer
doc of malpractice: but patients
estate gets no award -
article

- 5/12/10 - NYC's hospital
system calls for more layoffs -
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- 5/7/10 - St. Vincent's gets
insurance request - docs fear
they wont have coverage -
 
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- 5/6/10 - Doc in Beatles case
facing cancer suit -
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- 5/3/10 - Kin to get $3M in Irish
woman's NYC death -
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- 4/16/10 - St. Vincent's files for
bankruptcy -
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- 4/9/10 - Jury's five minute
deliberation was fair in
Ophthalmology malpractice
case -
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- 4/9/10 - Doctors, albany med
to pay $5.2M to settle lawsuit
over death of new mother -
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- 3/26/10 - NYC Aims to cut
2,600 public hospital jobs -
 
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- 3/15/10 - Jury sticks it to
breast doctor: patient awarded
$3.5M
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- 3/1/10 - Doctor faked drug
habit to avoid jail -
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2/11/10 - Falls hospital to pay
family in death -
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- 2/8/10 - NY family gets $2.9M
in boy's MRI death -
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- 1/11/10 - Settlement calls for
5-year watch of NYC hospital -
 
article

- 12/22/09 - NYC fire dept
suspends EMT's accused of
refusing to help dying pregnant
woman
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-12/10/09 - Jury finds doctor
liable in death of NY newborn -
 
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- 12/10/09 - Massapequa MD
sold opiate prescriptions near
school -
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- 11/13/09 - Freeport woman
sues hospital after biopsy
mix-up -
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- 11/2/09 - Unnecessary
mastectomy: %6.5M verdict in
NY -
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- 8/31/09 - Rape victims
awarded $11M: Malpractice suit
says sexual assault of girls
was preventable -
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- 8/12/09 - NY extends freeze
on malpractice insurance rates
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- 8/10/09 - Dead by mistake -
article

- 6/22/09 Cover-up followed
death in NYC hospital -
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- 6/9/09 - Data shows NY
malpractice payouts steady -
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- 6/9/09 - Hospital inaction
caused fatality -
article

- 6/1/09 - Judge tosses suits
vs. cancer doctor -
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- 5/29/09 - $2M for kin of
woman who died on NY
hospital floor -
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- 5/15/09 - Man suing hospital
for unneeded mastectomy -
article

- 4/30/09 - Family of Dr Botch's
victim seek millions -
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- 4/30/09 - Malpractice award
nearly $18 million -
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- 5/26/10 - Mass. doctors under
increasing pressure
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- 5/24/10 - Patient wins $4M
verdict against Conn.
gynecologist -
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- 3/29/10 - MA jury awards
$1.6M in suit over player's
death -
article

- 3/8/10 - Woman sues after
Boston mom's death -
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- 3/5/10 - Suit ties death of
Boston  woman to face lift -
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- 3/1/10 - After 5 'never' events,
observer, taping required for RI
hospital -
article

- 2/26/10 - Greenwich Hospital
hit with another lawsuit over
drug-addicted surgeon -
article

- 2/25/10 - Delaware doctor
indicted in child sex abuse
scandal -
article

- 1/25/10 - $1.56M awarded to
estate of woman who died at
Hartford Hospital -
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- 1/22/10 - Delaware wants to
freeze assets of accused
doctor -
article

- 1/19/10 - AG: DPH had
authority to order DNA in fertility
case - Conn -
 article

- 1/18/10 - Conn. Physicians
appeal Health Net acquisition -
 
article

- 1/11/10 - Arrest of DE
pediatrician followed years
of complaints -
 article

- 12/21/09 - MA jury ties doctors'
errors to boy's death -
article

- 11/19/09 - North Stonington
psychologists license to be
suspended -
 article

-11/13/09 - Mass. doctor claims
he was pressured to use
device -
 article

-11/9/09 - James Woods sues
hospital in RI over bro's death -
 
article

- 11/4/09 - RI hospital fined
$150K in wrong site surgery -
 
article

- 10/16/09 - MA family, hospital
settle after mother's fatal fall in
operating room -
article

-10/14/09 - Woman wins
$5.25M malpractice settlement
against doctor and New Milford
hospital -
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- 9/15/09 - Hartford hospital,
physician being sued -
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- 8/17/09 - CT- Woman's family
gets $1M in malpractice case -

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- 5/5/09 - Rebecca's doctor
target of grand jury -
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- 4/17/09 - MA - Mass jury
clears doctor who treated
injured cop -
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- 4/7/09 - MA - Doctor says
hospital defamed him -
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