Posts Tagged ‘doctor malpractice’
Doctor Receives Jail Sentence for Prescription Malpractice
A Virginian doctor is in hot water over a dangerous case of medical malpractice in which he pled guilty of writing prescriptions to people over the internet that he never met nor examined. Dr. Torrino Jennings received a year and one day in prison for issuing an estimated 100,000 invalid prescriptions of the muscle relaxant…
Read MoreJury Finds Doctors Guilty in Malpractice Case
Doctor malpractice was deemed the cause of a 40-year-old woman’s 2003 death by a Suffolk Superior Court jury. After two days of deliberation, the jury found two doctors liable for Amy Altman’s death and awarded her family $9.4 million in damages. With interest, the total award will amount to $13.5 million. The jury decided that…
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