In a split decision, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has lowered the award amount that the parents of a boy born with serious brain damage in 2003 at the Mayport Naval Station obstetrics clinic in Jacksonville, Florida will receive. The Florida birthing malpractice award-originally for $60.5 million-to…
A Florida woman is suing a Winter Park dentist for dropping a medical screwdriver and a torque wrench down her father’s throat. In Anne Greer’s dental malpractice lawsuit, she alleges that Dr. Wesley Meyer’s negligence contributed to Charles Gaal’s death. Gaal had gone to Meyers in October 2006 for implants…
In South Florida, a Broward County jury has ordered the North Broward Hospital District to pay the Lauderhill family of 8-year-old Darian Brown $35 million for medical malpractice. Darian sustained irreversible brain damage because of medical errors that took place during his birth at Broward General Medical Center. On January…