Laura joins Medstak as a supporter of consumer rights and patient safety. Her broad areas of interest allow her to write on all matters of medical negligence.
An Owasso, Oklahoma mother is working to raise awareness of Erb’s palsy, after her daughter received a brachial plexus injury at birth. The mother, Amber Lucas, had never even heard of the condition until the difficult delivery she experienced when giving birth to her daughter,... Read More
A Florida mother has filed an Erb’s palsy lawsuit against the physician who delivered her infant son and Bethesda Hospital. She claims the defendants failed to properly train it’s labor and delivery nurses on shoulder dystocia and how to manage it, and failed to require... Read More
The ruling of a Georgia Court of Appeals decision on a medical malpractice lawsuit involving the death of a 15 year old boy, two weeks after he was treated in a hospital emergency room, has been overturned by the Supreme Court of Georgia. The boy’s... Read More
Reports of nursing home abuse are on the rise, which recently prompted Oklahoma to become the third state to openly permit residents in long-term care facilities to keep surveillance cameras in their rooms. New Mexico and Texas also explicitly permit this practice, designed to help... Read More
A cancer misdiagnosis caused a single mother to become disfigured by radiation treatments that she never actually needed. Lessya Kotelevskaya was an impoverished single mother living in Kazakhstan, until a long-lost cousin from Louisville tracked her down last year. Kotelevskaya was barely able to open her... Read More
An Ohio woman has reached a settlement with the University of Cincinnati, six years after filing her medical negligence lawsuit in the Court of Claims of Ohio. While the university has not admitted fault for the permanent injuries she sustained, Cynthia A. Adae will be... Read More
U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle recently threw a major portion of Florida’s new medical malpractice statute out, claiming it conflicts with federal regulations in place to prevent improper disclosure of patients’ medical history. Florida Governor Rick Scott signed the medical malpractice law in June. The... Read More
A brachial plexus injury lawsuit has been filed by a mother who alleges her child’s injuries were a direct result of actions by medical staff in the delivery room. The mother is now seeking damages for her child’s ongoing injuries and need for medical treatment... Read More
