Medical negligence
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A federal complaint filed this week by Austin-area patient Lynn Callaway alleges that two Texas hospitals refused to provide timely miscarriage care despite federal obligations requiring emergency treatment, leaving her to endure days of escalating pain, infection, and fear that she might die. Callaway’s case has become a new focal point in the legal and…
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The family of a 51-year-old woman who died at a Dignity Health hospital has filed a civil lawsuit alleging that her organs and tissue were harvested without legal consent, and her remains were stored improperly for months while her family searched for her as a missing person. The complaint, filed this week in Sacramento County…
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Rapper Kanye West and his wife, Bianca Censori, have initiated legal action against Beverly Hills-based celebrity dentist Dr. Thomas Connelly, alleging a wide-ranging pattern of medical malpractice, including the improper administration of nitrous oxide, fraudulent billing practices, and the unsupervised use of the sedative propofol, according to a notice of intent to litigate filed by…
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Brittany Watts, a woman from Ohio, has filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Warren, local law enforcement officers, St. Joseph Warren Hospital, and its owners after she was criminally charged with abuse of a corpse following a miscarriage. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Eastern Division…
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In what could soon become a legal battle that would draw national attention, a North Carolina man is seeking answers after his mother, Dana Jackson, 51, passed away during a Vodou retreat in Haiti. Jackson, who had traveled to Haiti with the goal of becoming a Manbo priestess—a role in the Haitian Vodou tradition involving…
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On Friday, Texas’ highest court limited women’s ability to obtain monetary damages from medical providers whose alleged negligence led them to have unwanted pregnancies, ruling that state law does not treat the birth of a healthy child as an injury for which a parent must be compensated. The Texas Supreme Court ruled that a mother…
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