Posts by Crandall & Pera Law, LLC

Nursing home facilities nationwide continue to be hit with large verdicts in negligence cases due to improper treatment of the elderly residents placed under their care, according to a recent Senior Housing News article.  Trans Healthcare Inc. was just slammed with $1 billion in punitive damages and $110 million in compensatory damages regarding the death of…

Problems with technological advancements may be drastically adding to the amount of medical errors that affect up to 16 percent of patients admitted to hospitals, according to a recent Medical Daily article.  In a comparison of 28 studies regarding medical mistakes, researchers found that 70 percent of errors are related to equipment available in operating…

A surgical towel was left in Kelly’s abdomen after a June 2009 surgery to remove colon cancer and was not discovered until November 2009. It caused the removal of 2/3 of Kelly’s small bowel and massive digestive issues which will last her entire life. Tried in Lake County Court of Common Pleas, the verdict reached…

Kentucky overdose deaths declined for the first time in a decade in 2012, according to a report by the Office of Drug Control Policy.  There were 1,004 overdose fatalities in 2012, as compared to 1,023 deaths in 2011 statewide; 888 of these deaths last year were found to be unintentional. “Obviously, we’re pleased to see…

Surgeons have no regulations on how many surgeries they can perform in a given day, even though studies have found that surgical complications for patients can increase as much as 83 percent when a surgeon is not fully rested, according to an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine.  Surgeons interviewed in a…

Traumatic brain injury patients could be enrolled in a medical study, possibly without their consent, starting as soon as next month at two Boston hospital emergency departments.  The study – to be conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Medical Center – will test whether administering the hormone progesterone in the hours immediately after an…

The death of an elderly patient earlier this year who died after walking away from the Wisconsin assisted living facility she called home for two years exemplifies the dangers of nursing home negligence nationwide.  Eighty-five year old Delores Wiersum walked out of the backside of the facility just after midnight on January 17th, and it…

Medication errors, from incorrect dosage to the wrong prescribed medicine, occur millions of times every year in pharmacies and hospitals, providing harmful and fatal risks for patients. Studies estimate tens of millions of medication mistakes happen every year, resulting in more than 1.5 million people harmed, and more than 200,000 deaths. But the numbers are…

Exposure to pre-eclampsia, a life-threatening disorder caused by a rapid rise in blood pressure in 3-5% of pregnant women, could increase the risk of cerebral palsy in preterm or small birth weight newborns, according to a study published in BMJ. Researchers from Norway monitored 849 children with cerebral palsy and 616,658 without to conduct the…

The reason traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are often overlooked is because the victim may continue to look and speak normally and not realize they have suffered an injury at all, delaying necessary care, according to a recent article in The Legal Examiner.  These injuries can occur as a result of car crashes, slip and falls,…