Dawn Snyder
Dawn has held many positions within the legal field: contract attorney, trial lawyer, freelance legal researcher. She applies all of those skills as a staff writer with Medstak.
A military veteran and his wife have filed a $25 million birth injury lawsuit against the United States of America over severe disabilities their young daughter allegedly suffered because of medical negligence. The complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the District of...
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Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland, Oregon has settled a lawsuit over a botched water birth out of court. Lawyers for the plaintiffs announced the settlement of the Multnomah County Circuit Court case earlier this month while refusing to disclose the confidential terms of the...
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The New York Court of Appeals has allowed an injured bus driver and his wife to continue their medical malpractice lawsuit against a hospital and doctors even though neither treated the plaintiffs. Rather, the defendants treated the woman who caused the automobile accident that injured...
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The fate of a retired Air Force colonel’s medical malpractice lawsuit against the Cleveland Clinic rests in the hands of the Ohio Supreme Court. The plaintiff claims that the Clinic’s alleged delaying tactics should hold the statute of limitations open so that he can pursue...
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A young Michigan boy born on June 13, 2011, is seeking redress for continuing injuries he suffered at birth and his grandmother is officially representing him in court. The medical malpractice lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan...
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CBS Boston reports that doctors at Brigham & Women’s Hospital are improving the outcomes for newborns at risk for brain injury by treating them with hypothermia. The hospital is working to reduce the incidence of infant brain damage by wrapping newborns in cooling blankets. According...
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A Delaware mother recently filed a court brief arguing that her medical malpractice lawsuit should continue despite the defendants’ arguments that she waited too long to file the case. On July 10, 2015, the plaintiff mother filed an answering brief in the Delaware Erb’s palsy...
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A retired Madison County, Illinois judge recently resigned as plaintiff’s counsel in a federal Erb’s palsy lawsuit so that he could return to the bench. Judge Ralph Mendelsohn removed himself from private practice and resumed his place as associate judge of the Third Judicial Circuit...
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