PHILADELPHIA – Shortly before trial, a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by the parents of an infant child who underwent emergency surgery to remove one of his testicles was settled.
PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge has green-lighted enforcement of a subpoena to produce a radiologist’s report outlining a toddler’s quality of medical care, in a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by the parents of that same child, who underwent emergency surgery to remove one of his testicles.
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PHILADELPHIA – A federal judge’s ruling has altered the terms by which negligence can be pled in a lawsuit brought by the parents of a child who alleged medical malpractice in requiring their son to have emergency surgery to remove one of his testicles, but has also denied some of the case’s medical defendants the chance to escape punitive damages.
Lasheena Sipp-Lipscomb and Andres Gardin, Sr., first filed a complaint on April 16 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Einstein Physicians Pennypack Pediatrics, Albert Einstein Healthcare Network and others alleging violation of the Emergency Medical Treatment Act (EMTALA) and other claims.