September 17, 2018
A Texas magistrate judge on Friday largely denied an insurer's request for documents from a surgery center accused of causing brain damage to an ankle-injury patient, finding they were shielded by either attorney work-product protections or a state law that keeps medical care review records confidential.
January 25, 2018
A Texas surgery center failed to notice that an ankle surgery patient was drowning in her own vomit as she came out of anesthesia, a mistake that ultimately caused permanent brain damage when her heart stopped for 24 minutes, an insurance company said in a lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday.