OCTOBER 15, 2009 – A statement made by hospital officials last week regarding the radiation overdoses at Cedars-Sinai has been contradicted, the LA Times reported today. Last week, hospital officials said all patients exposed to 8x normal amounts of radiation had been contacted. But today, The Times reported that four patients informed them that although [...]

OCTOBER 10, 2009 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning yesterday regarding the risks of overexposure to radiation during CT scan procedures. The warning came after officials determined a CT brain scan machine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was set to an unsafe level– exposing 206 patients to eight times the [...]

AUGUST 15, 2009 - A nursing home in the Del Rosa section of San Bernardino was fined $90,000 by state regulators after a patient hung himself three weeks after arriving with orders to be under constant suicide watch, authorities said. The death occurred June 11 at Del Rosa Villa, a skilled nursing facility in the [...]

JULY 29, 2009 - A Tustin nursing home was fined $50,000 by state health officials after a resident choked to death in March, authorities said. Tustin Care Center was cited in an inspection report by the California Department of Public Health, which said the staff had noticed the man had grown weaker, but still allowed [...]

JUNE 12, 2009 - An Orange County jury awarded a 30-year-old woman nearly $3 million to compensate for chronic hip pain caused by a botched surgery. Erica Rockabrand underwent surgery at UCI Medical Center in April 2005 to alleviate pain in her hip joint that first surfaced when she was a 14-year-old cheerleader. The surgery [...]

MAY 14, 2009 - A Hollywood medical facility has been fined after a patient’s October death. Nurses at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center mistakenly gave the wrong patient a blood transfusion on October 28th, resulting in the patient’s death. Two nurses failed to check the name on the blood bag before administering the transfusion. The nurses [...]

APRIL 14, 2009 - The family of a woman who died in a Los Angeles hospital emergency room two years ago will be awarded $3 million. On May 9, 2007, 43-year-old Edith Rodriguez visited Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital complaining of abdominal pain. It was her third visit in three days. On this visit, her [...]

MARCH 6, 2009- A settlement has been reached in 2006 medical malpractice case. Edgar Hernandez underwent kidney surgery on April 20, 2006 at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. The patient suffered an IV infiltration to his left arm, causing burns, swelling, blisters, and loss of tissue. This required a skin graft. The patient still has [...]

NOVEMBER  19, 2008 – The Maryland Daily Record reported Monday that a jury in Montgomery County Circuit Court in Maryland returned a $5.8 million verdict to the family of a 47-year-old attorney who died of cancer.  The cancer developed as a result of an untreated mole, which was cancerous, and spread to the man’s brain. [...]