The Montana Supreme Court has ruled that a state District Court has jurisdiction to hear a medical malpractice lawsuit filed by the widow Kootenai man.

The ruling overturns the decision of District Judge Ted Lympus last year, which dismissed the lawsuit filed by Diane Morigeau against Dr. David Gorman and the Polson Family Medical Clinic over the February 2003 death of her husband Ben. Mr. Morigeau was a member of the Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

The ruling last year was in favor of the defendents, who argued that the lawsuit should have been filed in tribal court due to the involvement of a tribal member and because the medical care in question occurred in Polson, an area of the Flathead Indian Reservation.

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A $9 million settlement has been reached in a medical malpractice lawsuit filed against a hospital in Illinois.

The suit was filed on behalf of a 39 year-old mother who went into the hospital for a routine procedure but was overmedicated. She stopped breathing, and hospital staff could not resuscitate the woman. The woman suffered a hypoxic brain injury and died several days later.

The suit alleged taht the hospital staff was negligent in failing to realize the woman's condition, delaying the issuance of a code blue. The lawsuit also claimed that the code team failed to perform chest compressions as a part of CPR because they misinterpreted the electrical activity in the woman's heart.

The settlement was reached before the lawsuit was even filed.

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Michael Jackson's doctor was charged Monday with involuntary manslaughter for administering drugs impoperly.

Dr. Conrad Murray is accused of medical negligence in a complaint filed Monday in Los Angeles, which says Murray "unlawfully, and without malice" killing his patient, music legend Michael Jackson. Los Angeles County superior Court Judge Keith L. Schwartz set bail at $75,000. If Murray is convicted he will face up to four years in prison.

Adjunct professor of law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, Jessica Levinson, said of the case "take away the celbrity factor here and physicians will be watching for what is the standard relied on… [and] new or interesting legal frameworks with respect to affirmative defenses for physicians administering medications that can result in death."

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A jury in Texas has acquitted a nurse who was charged with a felony after alerting the state medical board of a doctor practicing unsafe medicine at her hospital.

Anne Mitchell was found not guilty of "misuse of official information" by the jury after a four-day trial. Her conviction could have carried a sentence of up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. 

Attorneys for the 52 year-old nurse at Winkler County Memorial Hospital, successfully argued that Mitchell was following state law which requires that reports of misconduct be made in good faith. Prosecutors argued that, when Michell reported Dr. Rolando G. Arafiles Jr. for medical malpractice, she was waging a personal vendetta against the physician.

The jury foreman said of Mitchell's whistle-blowing, "we just didn't see the wrongdoing…"

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A jury in Washington has awarded $14.8 million to a former cheerleader after a chain of dental surgeries of dental surgeries left her disabled and disfigured with her jaw wired shut.

Oral surgeon Dr. Patrick C. Collins was found, by the Spokane County Superior Court, to be negligent in performing the series of surgeries. The jury awarded 29 year-old Kimberly Kallestad $14.8 million, of which $10 million was for pain, suffering, disfigurement and "past and future loss of enjoyment of life." 

Dr. Collins was absent from the court as the verdict was delivered; his attorney said he plans to appeal. 

Kallestad, a former high school cheerleader and varsity tennis player, went to Collins after injuring her jaw in a sledding accident. She claims Collins said he would soon become her "hero" by fixing her jaw and that a surgery technique he had pioneered had an almost 100% success rate. During the trial, Other patients of Collins testified that he had made similar statements to them .

Kallestad is no longer able to work and is being cared for by her parents. She permanently disabled and in chronic pain.

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A jury in Chicago has awarded $5 million to a woman who underwent an unnecessary hysterectomy 10 years ago. 

In the fall of 1999 Sharon Virginelli went to Northwestern Memorial Hospital to give birth to her daughter. Virginelli's obstetrician, Dr. Pamela Liu, decided that the post-operative bleeding that followed the C-section delivery was life threatening and opted to perform a complete hysterectomy. 

Virginelli filed suit against the Chicago hospital accusing Liu of medical malpractice and misconduct. During the trial, experts testified that their were other, less severe procedures that Liu could have conducted to stop the bleeding.

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A couple in Riverside, California have been awarded a $16.5 millionmedical malpractice verdict against a neurosurgeon in Palm Springs.

The Riverside Superior Court jury deliberated for eight hours Friday beforereturning a guilty verdict. The jury found that neurosurgeon Christopher Phamwas negligent in his treatment of Trent Hughes in November 2003.

Hughes was injured while off-roading and was airlifted to the DesertRegional Medical Center where Pham was on call. Hughes suffered a fracturedspine in the accident and was not seen until the next day and was not operatedon until two days later; he was left a paraplegic.

The verdict is for past and future lost earnings, medical costs anddamages for pain and suffering.

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