A jury in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania awarded Lynn and James Flaherty a total of $3 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit. Lynn Flaherty was treated for severe headaches by her physician, who prescribed only pain medications. The physician never prescribed any antibiotics for the sinus infection that was actually causing…
Two Bucks County prison inmates were awarded a total of $1.2 million by a federal jury in Philadelphia for contracting flesh-eating bacteria (MRSA or methicillin-resistant staphlococcus aureus, also known as “staph”). After a six day trial, the jury found that both prisoners’ civil rights were violated by being jailed in…
Infections ocurring during a hospitalization kill 99,000 people every year, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Even more dramatically, these same statistics reveal that each year over 1.7 million people in the U.S. develop an infection as a complication of their hospitalization. Obviously, these infections,…