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Vanderbilt Med Center Facing Civil Rights Probe Over Release of Transgender Records

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is facing a federal civil rights investigation after turning the medical records of transgender patients over to Tennessee’s attorney general, hospital officials have confirmed. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services` investigation comes just weeks …

Vet’s California Lawsuit Blaming Antimalarial Drug For Psychosis Tossed

– A federal judge threw out a lawsuit against the maker of an anti-malarial drug blamed for causing psychotic behavior and neurological damage to U.S. servicemembers, ruling that the case had no right to be filed in California. The proposed …

U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Doctors Challenging Opioid Convictions

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 27 made it harder for prosecutors to win convictions of doctors accused of running “pill mills” and excessively prescribing opioids and other addictive drugs, by requiring the government to prove that defendants knew their …

Miss. Supreme Court Counts Unproven Comp Benefits in Legal Malpractice Claim

The question for the Mississippi Supreme Court was whether the amount of damages due an injured employee for her attorney’s negligence should include the workers’ compensation benefits she missed out on. The answer, the court decided last week, is “yes,” …

Judge Dismisses Yale Student’s Virtual Learning Lawsuit

A federal judge has dismissed a Yale University student’s attempt to sue the university for partial compensation for virtual online learning during the height of the pandemic last year. The Yale undergraduate student Jonathan Michel filed a class-action lawsuit against …

Mom of Toddler Who Died After Missouri Clinic Visit Awarded $1.8M

The family of a toddler who died just three hours after being misdiagnosed at a Branson, Mo., urgent care clinic is receiving $1.8 million in damages. Jurors in Taney County recently awarded Kassie Mcatee nearly $3.2 million in damages in …

Jury Awards $700K to Man in Case Against Hawaii Hospital

A federal jury awarded more than $700,000 in damages to a Hawaii man who sued a hospital, saying staff injected him against his will with anti-psychotic drugs that left him incapacitated for months. A jury in U.S. District Court unanimously …

Washington Jury Awards $14M in Malpractice Suit

A King County, Wash. jury has awarded a West Seattle woman nearly $14 million in a medical-malpractice suit against Seattle Children’s Hospital and Children’s University Medical Group. The Seattle Times reports the jury found doctors failed to prevent a stroke …

New Mexico Couple Wins $74M for Baby’s Brain Damage in Delivery

A jury has awarded a New Mexico couple $74 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving a son left with brain damage. KOB-TV in Albuquerque reported the jury this month ruled that a women’s health clinic in Hobbs, New Mexico, …

Former Blood-Testing Company CEO Sues Law Firm in Virginia Court

The co-founder of a defunct blood-testing company is suing her former law firm for malpractice and asking for at least $150 million in damages. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Tonya H. Mallory, the co-founder and former CEO of Health Diagnostic …