On behalf of Kennedy, Johnson, Schwab & Roberge, L.L.C. | Mar 25, 2016 | Medical Malpractice
A 60-year-old woman from Milford, Connecticut, had surgery at Yale-New Haven Hospital in May of last year. She was to have a lesion removed off one of her ribs that could possibly be cancerous. The woman didn’t know that a surgery trainee would be part of the...
On behalf of Kennedy, Johnson, Schwab & Roberge, L.L.C. | Mar 18, 2016 | Medical Malpractice
Free medical care is one benefit for which many of our nation’s veterans qualify, especially those who have been injured in the line of duty. In a recent ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a vet who sued the Syracuse VA Medical Center in...
On behalf of Kennedy, Johnson, Schwab & Roberge, L.L.C. | Mar 11, 2016 | Medical Malpractice
In many medical malpractice cases, a settlement is reached before the case goes to trial or even after the trial has started. In one Midwest state, a recent settlement in a malpractice case will see two university hospitals paying a portion of the $30 million...
On behalf of Kennedy, Johnson, Schwab & Roberge, L.L.C. | Mar 4, 2016 | Medical Malpractice
When you go in the hospital to have surgery, you believe that your surgeon will provide you with care and treatment that meets the accepted standard of care. When that doesn’t happen and you end up injured or ill because of negligence on the part of the doctor...