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Minneapolis nurse turned lawyer fights on behalf of children injured at birth
Minneapolis lawyer Teresa McClain can’t say exactly how many clients she has represented in medical malpractice lawsuits over the years. “But you know what, I remember every single one of them,” she said. “They stay with me.” McClain represents plaintiffs who claim an injury caused by a medical professional’s mistakes. About half of her cases involve newborns injured during deliveries gone wrong. That specialty seems a natural choice for McClain. Before she was a lawyer, she spent 10 years as a nurse, working in labor and delivery — her “first love,” she calls it. “It was intellectually challenging because things happen fast there; there are a lot of complexities to…
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Attorney General Charges Nurse for Falsifying Patient Records
LANSING – A accredited useful nurse functioning at Medilodge of Gaylord has been charged with five counts of Intentionally Putting Untrue Details in a Medical Document, a five-12 months felony, Attorney Normal Dana Nessel introduced today. Jennifer Porter, 49, of Vanderbilt, was arraigned in 87A District Courtroom in Otsego County right now immediately after an investigation by the Health and fitness Treatment Fraud Division (HCFD) in the Division of Lawyer Normal. The Attorney Basic alleges that for the duration of Porter’s employment as a Licensed Functional Nurse at Medilodge of Gaylord, a competent nursing facility, she intentionally altered medication administration data to cover the truth that particular doses of medicine…
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Lawsuit alleges one former Grand Junction nurse sexually assaulted potentially ‘thousands’ of victims
Editor’s Observe: This tale has graphic descriptions of sexual assault. On Tuesday, the two ladies nervously sat on their lawyer’s sofa, squeezing each other’s arms, providing side hugs, wiping away tears and handing every single other tissues. M.C. and J.V. are sufferer No. 1 and victim No. 2 in what their attorneys say could amount to countless numbers of girls who suffered sexual assault in the care of a Grand Junction ICU nurse involving 2016 and 2022 at St. Mary’s Hospital. The allegations accuse previous nurse Christopher Peter Lambros of routinely likely into intensive care device rooms, administering medications to deepen feminine patients’ sedation and then sexually assaulting them. Lambros…
