Kevin O'Connor argues that nurse Donna Newhard and physician Alberto Marin did not breach their duty of care to seven-year-old Christopher Cassion during a 2011 emergency room visit. The child died, allegedly from bacterial meningitis, eight days after being discharged from the ER.
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Topics: Negligence, Medical Malpractice, Florida, Vanterpool v Newhard
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Topics: Medical Malpractice, Florida, Neligence, Vanterpool v Newhard
Jonesboro, GA—A non-returned phone call is generally an annoyance, but two telephone calls from a concerned patient’s wife to a surgeon’s office that were never returned led to a wrongful death case in Clayton County State Court and, ultimately, a $3.5 million verdict, after the patient died within hours of the telephone calls. Pamela Douglas Banks v. South Atlanta Neurosurgery PC (2008 CV 08001).
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Topics: Negligence, Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death, Georgia
Atlanta—A physician whose patient died of liver failure after being prescribed Lamisil for athlete’s foot won a wrongful death medical malpractice case in Fulton County State Court brought by the deceased patient’s relatives. The case was titled Samuel J. Moody v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation et al. (07EV002473) when filed. However, due to substitution of parties and dismissals, the case proceeded to trial under the name Eunice White et al. v. Timothy Young, M.D., et al.
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Topics: Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death, Malpractice, Georgia, Moody v. Novartis, White v. Young
