Medical Malpractice

A sixth lawsuit has been filed against the West Virginia VA hospital after a former nurse admitted that they killed 7 patients with fatal doses of insulin. To be sure, the lawsuit has been filed against the hospital and not the nursing assistant who killed the patients whose families have

A North Carolina teen says she was rescued from a sex trafficking ring only to be abused again at the hospital where she was receiving treatment. Now, Virginia State Police have opened up an investigation into the Cumberland Hospital for Children and Adolescents. The victim, identified only as RH, says

There’s a reason why even the lowest-level nurses have years of medical training. It’s because even simple things, like the insertion of a catheter, can result in serious medical trauma, including death. For that reason, the placement of urethral catheters can often result in medical malpractice lawsuits against doctors who

A former patient of the West Boca Raton Medical Center filed a lawsuit against the hospital after she fell from her hospital bed. MichieHamlett settled a similar case in which a man who had recently been given the medication Ambien and was a fall risk fell from his bed, causing

A plaintiff was severely injured after suffering a stroke during a cardiac catheterization procedure. The names of those involved in the lawsuit will not be reproduced here because the agreement included a confidentiality clause. The plaintiff was injured after his doctor attached an air-filled syringe to the wrong catheter. The catheter

MichieHamlett was able to secure $400,000 for a patient who fell from his hospital bed. The patient, a 70-year-old man who used a walker to manage his back, hip, and leg pain, was correctly identified as a fall risk by the hospital. The man was undergoing bypass surgery. At one point,

MichieHamlett recently settled a case in which a patient presented to an urgent care center complaining of chest pains that radiated from to his arms, back, and mouth. The plaintiff said that even his teeth hurt sometimes. Since the plaintiff was over 50 years old, a male, was a smoker,

There were numerous concerns in the early days of the pandemic. The foremost concern involved hospitals running out of beds for sick COVID patients. But even in a pandemic, folks need medical services for other matters. One of the major concerns of the new normal is how remote appointments or

Some folks think that you can file a lawsuit against any doctor who makes a mistake. But mistakes happen, even to the best doctors. The law recognizes this and sets the standard for medical malpractice higher than a simple mistake. In this article, we’ll discuss medical negligence and how it

Each year, Virginia Lawyers Weekly releases Virginia’s top settlements and verdicts. This year, MichieHamlett was featured five times in that list for settlements in excess of $1 million. Below, we’ll discuss our largest verdicts of 2020. MichieHamlett Wins $3.5 Million After Student Death  Attorneys Ben and Brian Glass along with Brian Slaughter,