A family of a baby girl whose neck was broken—resulting in a spinal cord injury that caused paralysis—is now suing the Orlando facility following her death, claiming they tried to cover up the baby’s injury in a new medical malpractice case. Jahxy Peets was born about three months early at…
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Police find Body Found in North Miami Nursing Home with Missing Patient. What Happened?
A body was found in a closet at the same Miami nursing home from where a 71-year-old man was reported missing, according to reporting from The Miami Herald. Police were called out to the North Dade Nursing and Rehabilitation Center around 10:30 a.m. Monday morning. The man who had been…
Victims of Medical Malpractice agree to multi-million dollar settlements
Turned down by other law firms, a young widow whose husband had been abhorrently ignored by ER doctors at a Florida Hospital turned to Leesfield & Partners for help. Ten months later, Leesfield & Partners was able to secure a multi-million dollar settlement during the claim’s pre-suit period, for the loss…
Sewn Up With Surgical Tools Inside Your Body? Don’t Take It Lying Down
With the prices you pay at the hospital, you shouldn’t have to worry about asinine medical errors. Yet they abound. As quality medicine standard-bearer Johns Hopkins recently reported, medical errors are now the THIRD leading cause of death in the United States. The Johns Hopkins study was a follow-up to…