Abramson Brown & Dugan Case Results

Verdicts & Settlements – Personal Injury – Anonymous – 2009

Facts/Liability: This is a civil action for damages for the catastrophic personal injuries, the plaintiff, a 42-year old husband, father, grandfather, and business owner, sustained in a motorcycle accident at an intersection in a New Hampshire city. The accident occurred when the employee of a major national corporation, driving a company van, made a right […]

Verdicts and Settlements

VERDICT/SETTLEMENT Facts/Liability: This was a medical negligence case arising from the mismanagement of the teenage plaintiff’s neck injury which led to permanent spinal cord damage.  Following a fall while working as a counselor at a day camp, the plaintiff was taken to the defendant hospital by ambulance in a cervical collar.

NEW HAMPSHIRE TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATION VERDICTS AND SETTLEMENT REPORT

P.O. BOX 447 CONCORD, NH 03301 Plaintiff’s Attorney: Kenneth C. Brown, Esq. and Jared R. Green, Esq. Case Title: Anonymous v. Anonymous County: Anonymous Liability Facts: The male plaintiff was badly burned while using a piece of camping equipment indoors.

New Hampshire Trial Lawyers Association Verdicts and Settlement Report

PO Box 447 Concord, NH  03302-0447 Plaintiff’s Attorney:  Kenneth C. Brown   Case Title:    Anonymous v. Anonymous   County:      Anonymous   Date of Injury: August 2004

What Does Dover and Lebanon NH Have to Do With Bangor Maine?

Not much, but the differences in children’s healthcare care in these communities reveals some important factors concerning quality healthcare and why, for instance, more children in Bangor Maine receive CT scans than children living in Lebanon New Hampshire. According to a recent post in the Bangor Daily News, “If you grow up near Dover, N.H., […]

Boston Children’s Hospital Study Demonstrates How Medical Errors Can Be Reduced

A recent study by Boston Children’s Hospital shows how medical errors can be reduced by changing the patient “hand-off” system. This “hand-off” refers to the critical period in patient care when a patient’s caregivers are changed due to a shift change or a new team of specialists is called in to consult on their patient’s […]

Harvard School of Public Health: 43 Million Harmed by Medical Errors Each Year

A recent study conducted by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health concluded that 43 million people worldwide are harmed by medical mistakes each year. “We find that millions of people around the world are hurt, disabled, and sometimes even die as a result of medical errors,” lead author Ashish Jha, professor of health […]

Massachusetts Hospitals Report More Surgical Errors

In spite of a 10 year campaign to reduce “never events” such as surgical errors, hospitals in Massachusetts are reporting an increase in surgical errors such as anesthesia injected into the wrong leg, a guidewire left inside a patient’s vein, and a catheter threaded into a patient who didn’t need one. Some industry experts believe […]

New Hampshire Hospital Safety

According to the Leapfrog Group’s survey of New Hampshire hospitals, only four have been given an “A” grade in terms of how effective they are at preventing medical errors and avoiding patient harm. According to this one survey, New Hampshire hospitals rank 22nd in the nation for the percentage of hospitals that received an A. […]

How Hospital Administrators Can Improve Safety

In the latest edition of www.healthaffairs.org, two attorneys who represent doctors and hospitals authored an important article on the role of hospital leadership in the prevention of medical errors and the improvement of healthcare. The article is written in response to Dr. Jonathan Welch’s tragic experience in dealing with the care of his mother in […]

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