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- Joshua Rausch, Capital Acquisitions and Management Corp Illegal debt collection results in $1 billion payout to FTC. (Mar-13-07)
- Bixby Medical Center $495,000 to parents for negligent prenatal care. (Mar-13-07)
- St. James's University Hospital Parents sue hospital for negligence during childbirth, get �5.75 million in damages. (Feb-22-07)
- Dr. Hugh Moncrief Botched medical procedure results in woman's death, family awarded $1 million in compensatory damages. (Feb-21-07)
- Ken Tapscott Judge pays former clients $129,000 in breach of trust lawsuit. (Feb-18-07)
- Edge Hospital, Sheffield 2.2 million hospital negligence settlement. (Feb-12-07)
- Whipps Cross Hospital £4 million medical malpractice settlement for a brain damaged delivery. (Dec-19-06)
- Sacred Heart Hospital (Dec-5-06)
- West Virginia University Hospitals Inc. $370,000 settlement awarded for the wrongful death of an infant boy. (Nov-22-06)
- Luton and Dunstable Hospital �3.9 million medical malpractice settlement awarded 35 years after the incident. (Nov-21-06)
- Cochran, Scheck & Neufeld $900,000 malpractice settlement awarded to a man wrongly convicted of rape. (Nov-20-06)
- Tripler Army Medical Center $16.5 million for child at birth who was given carbon dioxide instead of oxygen. (Oct-25-06)
- Provena St. Joseph's Medical Center $1 million medical malpractice settlement. (Oct-1-06)
- Carilion Medical Center $1 million medical malpractice settlement after the death of a surgical patient. (Sep-21-06)
- City of Columbus, OH $100,000 for not following protocol that left a woman dead after a heart attack. (Sep-21-06)
- Dr. Leslie King and Dr. Ira Spector $4.1 million settlement after a botched abortion. (Sep-20-06)
- Doctor Mitchell Zagor $5 million medical malpractice settlement for a brain damaged baby. (Sep-18-06)
- Advanced Physical Therapy $180,000 paid for submitting false claims for reimbursement to federally funded health care programs. (Sep-14-06)
- County-USC Medical Center $2.18 million settlement awarded to a brain damaged teenaged boy. (Sep-5-06)
- Dr. Ronald McGee $3.3 million medical malpractice settlement awarded to a patient diagnosed with bladder cancer. (Aug-31-06)
- Colonial HealthCare $160,000 fine for the death of two patients due to inadequate care. (Aug-21-06)
- Kaiser Permanente $2 million fine for the mismanagement of the kidney transplant program in Northern California. (Aug-10-06)
- Ohio State University Medical Center Undisclosed medical malpractice settlement awarded after a 24 year old woman was left with brain damage. (Aug-6-06)
- Queensland Government, Australia $5 million tentative personal injury settlement awarded Sonja Hickson. (Aug-2-06)
- Dr. James Shortt $400,000 tentative malpractice settlement to be awarded to Janet Bate. (Jul-24-06)
- Harbor-UCLA Medical Center $200,000 settlement after a 9-year-old boy died after receiving excessive amounts of a leukemia drug. (Jun-8-06)
- Jeffrey Rempala $70,000 settlement after being unable to account for missing prescription medications. (May-19-06)
- Tenet HealthSystem Hahnemann, LLC Undisclosed settlement awarded after a Caesarean section left the mother in a vegetative state. (May-9-06)
- Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Trust 750,000 compensation deal after a gall bladder operation left a man brain damaged. (May-4-06)
- Norwalk Hospital and Dr. Jay Angeluzzi $17 million medical malpractice settlement awarded after a C-Section left a woman with permanent brain damage. (May-2-06)
- Evanston Northwestern Healthcare $5 million medical malpractice settlement awarded after induced labor left a baby boy with Cerebral Palsy. (Apr-14-06)
- Dr. James Smith $340,000 medical malpractice settlement after a gall bladder surgery was performed prematurely and lead to the death of a basketball coach. (Apr-11-06)
- Monongalia General Hospital $17 million medical malpractice settlement awarded to the family of a baby left with cerebral palsy. (Mar-30-06)
- Cork University Hospital 4.65 million settlement awarded to a boy left with catastrophic injuries after surgery. (Mar-23-06)
- Providence St. Joseph Medical Center Undisclosed wrongful death settlement awarded to the family of actor John Ritter. (Mar-16-06)
- Pleasant Care Corp. $1.3 million settlement for elder abuse and criminal negligence. (Mar-9-06)
- St. George's Hospital 1 million pound settlement awarded to a widow whose young husband died after his malignant melanoma went undiagnosed. (Feb-7-06)
- University of California Board of Regents $700,000 settlement awarded to a family who was returned ashes from miscellaneous body parts of other cadavers. (Dec-13-05)
- Westmead Children's Hospital Undisclosed settlement awarded to a mother whose son suffered brain damage during a tracheotomy procedure. (Dec-7-05)
- Torys LLP $30 million legal malpractice settlement awarded to Hollinger alleging failure to act in the client's best interest by simultaneously advising separate parties. (Dec-5-05)
- Federal Government $60.9 million settlement awarded to a family whose new born son suffered severe brain damage during delivery. (Dec-2-05)
- Kominsky & Kubacki Medical Associates $2.4 million medical malpractice and wrongful death settlement awarded after cardiovascular warning signs were allegedly ignored. (Nov-28-05)
- Redding Medical Center $18 million settlement awarded to patients who received unnecessary cardiac catheterizations and bypass surgeries prior to 2002. (Nov-18-05)
- BUPA Leicester Hospital 1.32 million settlement for permanent brain damage after a routine sinusitis operation. (Nov-15-05)
- Sullivan & Cromwell $25.5 million legal malpractice settlement awarded to Ventas Inc. (Nov-5-05)
- Morris Medical Center, Morris Hospital, and Dr. John Roth $5 million medical malpractice settlement after a baby was born with severe asphyxia and later diagnosed with cerebral palsy. (Oct-28-05)
- Oak Forest Hospital $35 million medical malpractice settlement for improperly inserting a breathing tube that left a mother with severe brain damage. (Oct-18-05)
- Methodist Healthcare $5 million settlement for undiagnosed hereditary heart condition that left a woman unable to speak. (Oct-18-05)
- Mercy Hospital $11 million medical malpractice and wrongful death settlement awarded to the parents of a four year old boy. (Oct-5-05)
- San Joaquin General Hospital patient at a San Joaquin County hospital wins $50,000 medical malpractice lawsuit. (Sep-27-05)