After another round of amendments and changes, Beaumont appellate justice have approved the medical expert reports in a malpractice suit against several doctors and area hospitals.
Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas has filed suit against two people it claims failed to pay more than $1,000 for services they received at the hospital.
For the second time in a year, the Ninth District Court of Appeals has been tapped to decide whether or not a plaintiffs' medical expert reports meet Texas Civil Code requirements.
Last April, a Beaumont man stricken with streptococcal infection and necrotizing fasciitis died from toxic shock one day after being admitted to Memorial Hermann Baptist Beaumont Hospital.
A Jefferson County woman claims she became pregnant after a doctor failed to properly perform a medical procedure meant to serve as a permanent form of birth control.
Memorial Hermann Baptist Beaumont Hospital Memorial Hermann Baptist Beaumont claims one of its former patients owes it more than $100,000 in unpaid costs for medical services the hospital rendered.
Although appellate justices saw fit to dismiss Memorial Hermann Baptist Beaumont Hospital from a medical-malpractice case late last year, a doctor also named in the suit did not fare as well.
The daughter of a recently deceased man claims her father's death could have easily been avoided had doctors at Memorial Hermann Baptist Orange Hospital and Christus Hospital St. Elizabeth recognized the fact that he was bleeding to death.
A Jefferson County woman has filed suit against Memorial Hermann Baptist Beaumont Hospital, Women's Center of Beaumont and a doctor, alleging her infant daughter suffered paralysis of one of her arms because of the doctor's negligence during her birth.
Memorial Hermann Baptist Beaumont Hospital For the second time in two months a local hospital has been dismissed from a medical-malpractice suit by appellate justices, and this time it also came away with attorneys' fees.
Several defendants fingered in a medical malpractice case had their appeal over medical expert qualifications granted by Beaumont justices on Thursday, Dec. 17.
In spite of having a trial end its favor in October, Memorial Hermann Baptist Beaumont Hospital is presently asking a local judge to discard a $156,000 jury award and enter a new judgment of $261,000.
A local hospital and physician claiming that they were wrongly named in a medical-malpractice suit had their case dismissed by appellate justices on Thursday, Dec. 10.
In an attempt to keep several of its employees out of an ongoing lawsuit, Beaumont Bone & Joint Institute has filed an appeal asserting a local judge erred when he denied its motion to dismiss.