Recent Cases

Computer Consulting

• Computer consultants are not 'professionals' subject to Wisconsin professional negligence standard

Dentistry

• Mishandled dental file leaves patient with permanent nerve damage, debilitating pain
• Party did not waive attorney-client, work-product privileges by inadvertently sending confidential documents to expert

Education

• New York appellate court declines to recognize cause of action for educational malpractice

Funeral Home

• Body left in funeral home's outside storage area is mistakenly taken to area landfill

Insurance

• Change of insurance coverage creates substantial liability gap for nursing home operator

Law

• Attorney-physician who participated in peer review process at defendant physician's hospital could not represent plaintiffs in negligence suit

Medicine

• Baby suffers catastrophic injuries where staff fail to recognize breech position
• Cardiovascular patient suffers undiagnosed allergic reaction to Heparin
• Stroke patient falls from hospital bed, injures hip
• Hysterectomy patient suffers fatal anaphylaxis from latex exposure
• Doctor leaves laparotomy pad inside patient undergoing routine cesarean section
• Emergency physicians fail to obtain test results, timely treat dissecting thoracic aneurysm
• Surgeon mishandles electromechanical device, causing catastrophic injuries to a 6-year-old girl
• Patient diagnosed with advanced cancer after doctor told her breast lump was fatty deposit.
• Doctor transects nerve during orthopedic surgery
• Osteopath fails to refer patient for biopsy, delaying cancer diagnosis by over two years
• Cancer misdiagnosis leads to partial lung removal
• Abnormal EKGs repeatedly interpreted as normal years before a patient's heart attack
• Pathologist repeatedly misreads routine Pap smears, delaying cancer diagnosis
• Baby suffers brain damage following placental abruption
• Doctors and nurses fail to timely diagnose patient breast cancer
• Medical examiner did not violate daughter's constitutional rights by failing to return mother's brain specimens after autopsy
• Doctors left pancreatitis untreated while pursuing mistaken cancer diagnosis
• Jailed man with ventilator-dependent quadriplegia dies after being denied ventilator

Nursing Home

• Arbitration agreement left unsigned by nursing home was not enforceable

Pharmacy

• Pharmacy dispenses misfilled Fentanyl prescription to vision-impaired consumer

Psychotherapy

• Hospital is not liable for sudden violent attack by fellow psychiatric patient
• Teen hangs himself following premature discharge from psychiatric facility

In this Issue

• Updates
• Court Documents