A significant number of kidney donors are suffering life-threatening injuries because of the use of surgical clips to close arteries after kidney surgery. Surgical clips can slip off of the small portion of an artery that is left after the removal of a kidney and cause fatal blood loss. The number of patient deaths from…
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline was recently slapped with a $3 billion fine for illegally marketing a variety of drugs for unapproved, off-label uses. Authorities brought criminal and civil fines against GSK for its marketing of Paxil, Webutrin, Avandia, and other drugs, which may have exposed many patients to unnecessary personal injuries. Authorities specifically accuse GSK of…
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently issued a bulletin to motorcoach companies regarding weight limits on double-decker buses. Fully loaded buses can experience tire failures that lead to bus accidents like the Megabus crash that killed one and injured dozens in Illinois earlier this month. “A tire on a motorcoach loaded beyond its weight…
Communication breakdowns and inadequate note-taking seem to be primarily responsible for the nursing failures that led to a patient’s wrongful death at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. The California Department of Public Health recently announced $75,000 in fines for the hospital arising out of this nursing negligence incident. The respiratory therapist responsible for the…
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center was recently fined $75,000 by the California Department of Public Health for a nursing malpractice incident that caused in a patient’s death. The patient was neglected and improperly transported within a hospital which resulted in his wrongful death. Nursing negligence is a common issue in many Bay Area hospitals and…
In our last post, we discussed the wrongful death of a Kaiser Hospital patient who was neglected by the nursing staff at the Oakland/Richmond Kaiser Foundation Hospital. An investigation by the California Department of Public Health indicated that an overworked nurse with inadequate backup was preoccupied with other patients as a man was experiencing cardiac…
A Bay area Kaiser hospital was recently fined $75,000 by the California Department of Public Health for a medical malpractice incident which resulted in a patient’s wrongful death. State safety regulators found that a Kaiser hospital failed to follow health and safety regulations and that this failure was directly linked to the patient’s death. The…
Four partners at the San Francisco law firm Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger were recently named among the top attorneys in Northern California by Super Lawyers Magazine. The nationally recognized attorney rating service named Walkup Melodia partners Richard Schoenberger, Paul Melodia and Michael Kelly as among the top 100 attorneys in Northern California for the…
Four partners at the San Francisco law firm Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger were recently named among the top attorneys in Northern California by Super Lawyers Magazine. The nationally recognized attorney rating service named Walkup Melodia partners Richard Schoenberger, Paul Melodia and Michael Kelly as among the top 100 attorneys in Northern California for the…
A new study shows that turn signal neglect is a major cause of car accidents in San Francisco and around the country. Researchers from the Society of Automotive Engineers found that improper turn signal use leads more than 2 million car accidents annually, which is double the amount of crashes attributable to distracted driving. “This…
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