Posts tagged Medical Malpractice

• What Happened Before Man Jumped Off The Carnival Sensation

  Eddie Farah | September 04, 2009 1:34 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Martha Jackson, a passenger on the Carnival Sensation, returning from four nights in the Bahamas, heard the splash. A 34-year-old unidentified man from Philadelphia jumped from his sixth-deck suite...

• ER Access - Florida Worst In The Nation

  Eddie Farah | December 12, 2008 12:10 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The news is not good if you need emergency room care in Florida. Florida ranked dead last in a national report on the ability of someone in a dire medical need to access emergency care. The study...

• $16.6 Million Duragesic Pain Patch Trial Ends

  Eddie Farah | November 24, 2008 10:59 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Devices & Implants
  

  The trial of a woman who died from an overdose of the drug delivered through the Duragesic pain-killing patch is over. The jury awarded her husband and three children $16.6 million. The Chicago...

• Pharmacy Errors Addressed In New Florida Law

  Eddie Farah | August 15, 2008 12:47 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  Florida Governor Charlie Crist has just signed Senate Bill 1360 into law. The Pharmacy Technician Act is a significant piece of legislation that should keep us all safer from the medication errors...

• Compulsive Gambling and Mirapex Verdict $8.2 Million

  Eddie Farah | August 02, 2008 1:33 PM | 1 CommentJacksonville, FL Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A drug given to treat Parkinson’s disease and restless leg syndrome is the focus of a number of trials underway in the District Court of Minneapolis. More than 200 plaintiffs are taking their case...

• Pro Bono Hours On The Decline In Florida

  Eddie Farah | May 03, 2008 11:48 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Are Florida’s lawyers spending less time helping those who cannot afford to pay? The Florida Bar, reports that the number of hours Florida lawyers donate to the poor every year is on the decline,...

• Woman Sues Naval Hospital For Amputation

  Eddie Farah | March 17, 2008 12:01 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  June McDowell was supposed to be going in for knee replacement surgery. Instead something went terribly wrong during her 2005 surgery at the Naval Hospital Jacksonville. Now McDowell is suing.McDowell told Channel 4 the last two years have been a nightmare. She is wheelchair bound and cannot be fitted for a prosthetic device."I have a bed that I lay in, you know. I just can't do anything. I...

• Growing Number of Floridians Without Health Insurance

  Eddie Farah | November 02, 2007 12:14 AM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Here are the latest numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau.They tell us that Floridians are increasingly opting to go without health insurance. The latest count -- one in four residents, under age 65, did not have health insurance coverage last year. In terms of numbers, that translates to almost four million Floridians. Back in 2002, one in five Floridians lacked health coverage. Those numbers...

• State Senator's Family Sues Nursing Home

  Eddie Farah | November 01, 2007 8:45 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  These are not stories we report every day, but they are stories that happen every day, unfortunately.In this case the wife of Senator Stephen Wise of Jacksonville, and her sister are suing a nursing home claiming negligence killed their 89-year old father, Glenn Beeman in 2005.The place in question - West Jacksonville Health and Rehabilitation Center.What's fascinating are the comments that...

• UF Shands Admits Guilt in 3-yr-old's Death

  Eddie Farah | October 27, 2007 6:48 PM | 0 CommentsJacksonville, FL Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  If an apology would be forthcoming when a hospital does wrong- I'd have less business. And that would be okay because it's the right thing for a hospital to do. When UF Shands gave medication to a 3-year-old that was ten times stronger that what was originally prescribed, the boy died. This happened October 10, 2007.Instead of running for cover, getting their ducks in a row, hiring lawyers and...