Criminal Law

Grady Hospital employee charged with sexual assault of patient www.privateofficer.com
Grady Hospital employee charged with sexual assault of patient      www.privateofficer.com channel2news ATLANTA GA OCT 17 2008 — A Grady Hospital patient told police she was sexually assaulted while undergoing treatment at the hospital...

Nursing Home Owner Charged with Neglect
Prosperity, SC: A Newberry County nursing home neglect case has resulted in the arrest of the nursing home's owner, 64-year-old Roy Lee Bowers, and he has been charged with neglect, a felony, because the patient was an adult who was vulnerable...

Dead Within 12 Weeks of Starting Heparin
Louis, MS: Judith's husband, John, had been ill with pneumonia for several weeks when he was admitted to hospital, for the last time, in March. The doctors put him on continuous intravenous heparin, in addition to drugs to treat his pneumonia...

Manatt entertainment lawyer Gerald Margolis dies of pneumonia at 65
Manatt entertainment lawyer Gerald Margolis died of complications related to pneumonia on Sept. 15, according to a firm press release. He was 65. While fighting the physical effects of progressive muscular atrophy for the past six years, Margolis "continued to...

Hospital Death Rates for Top Three Conditions Unveiled
The government's Hospital Care website has made it easier to find your chance for survival. For the first time, Americans are allowed to see specific death rates for heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia from individual hospitals around the country...

Hospitals can reduce if not eliminate medical malpractice and patient deaths and complications - - Some are already doing it
I have reported in a number of postings that the way to reduce the number of medical malpractice suits is to reduce the amount of medical malpractice. Here, for instance, are a couple of my postings: “Here's one out-of-the-box way to reduce medical malpractice suits: Reduce the medical malpractice — A new study reports that an average of 195,000 people have died annually due to errors in hospitals” http://www...

Breast Cancer Patient Awarded $8.1 Million in Discrimination Case
Breast Cancer Patient Awarded $8.1 Million in Discrimination Case

T-Mobile USA
alleging the company charged customers for services without their consent.

T-Mobile USA Inc.
allegedly charged customers for unsolicited text messages.

Countrywide Financial Corp.
allegedly charged borrowers improper foreclosure fees.

Patient Awarded $10 Million
In Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

Nvidia and AMD
charged with price-fixing computer GPU (graphics processing units) chips