Medical Negligence Compensation

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed both the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force to pay Rs 1.54 crore in compensation for their medical negligence to the ex-Air Force officer who contracted HIV/AIDS during a blood transfusion in 2002.

A division bench of the Tripura High Court, upholding a single bench order, has asked the state government to pay a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the family member of a jail inmate, who died of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) due to medical negligence

The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has directed a doctor to pay a compensation of Rs 4 lakh with interest to a woman who allegedly suffered from nerve damage due to medical negligence 21 years ago.

Supreme Court said that courts cannot presume that all deaths due to COVID-19 in the 2nd wave were due to negligence as it refused to entertain a plea seeking compensation for the kin of the victims by treating it as medical negligence.

Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has found a doctor of an urban health centre guilty of medical negligence leading to the death of a woman and ordered him to provide Rs 5 lakh compensation to the patient's husband.

Human touch is the duty of hospitals and they are required to implement it, said a Delhi state consumer commission while awarding Rs 20 lakh as compensation to parents of a Delhi resident who died of medical negligence in 2003.

An Indian expat in the UAE has been awarded a compensation of Rs 39 lakh by a court in Sharjah for his wife's death due to medical negligence, a media report said.

The state consumer commission in Maharashtra has directed a civic-run hospital in Navi Mumbai and a Chembur-based hospital to pay over Rs 15 lakh compensation to a woman whose husband died nine years ago due to "medical negligence".

A 24-year-old pregnant woman in Tamil Nadu is HIV positive after infected blood was given to her during a blood transfusion at a government hospital in Virudhunagar district, around 500 km from Chennai.The government has offered financial compensation and jobs for the woman and her husband but they want help for private treatment after the negligen...

A woman has moved to the Madras High Court seeking a directive to doctors of a government hospital to pay Rs.10 lakh compensation for alleged medical negligence since she conceived despite undergoing a tubectomy surgery.

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum (NCDRF) directs a private hospital to pay an amount of Rs. 8 lakhs as compensation to a man who lost his wife in 2008 due to medical negligence at the hospital's end.

In a landmark order, a consumer disputes redressal commission in Bengaluru has asked three doctors of Fortis Hospital to pay a compensation amounting to Rs 23.5 lakh to the family of a woman who died allegedly due to medical negligence.

The Delhi consumer commission has directed a private hospital and two orthopaedics to pay Rs 25 lakh as compensation to a patient who had suffered 40 per cent disability on his left leg due to medical negligence.

The Madras High Court has ordered the Tamil Nadu government to pay a compensation of Rs 28.37 lakh to the next of kin of a woman who died in 2012 after being in coma for 411 days due to administration of nitrous oxide instead of oxygen at a state-run hospital.

The Thane District Consumer Forum has directed two doctors to pay a compensation of Rs 3.20 lakh to a Kochi-based woman for medical negligence.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed both the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force to pay Rs 1.54 crore in compensation for their medical negligence to the ex-Air Force officer who contracted HIV/AIDS during a blood transfusion in 2002.

A division bench of the Tripura High Court, upholding a single bench order, has asked the state government to pay a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the family member of a jail inmate, who died of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) due to medical negligence

The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has directed a doctor to pay a compensation of Rs 4 lakh with interest to a woman who allegedly suffered from nerve damage due to medical negligence 21 years ago.

Supreme Court said that courts cannot presume that all deaths due to COVID-19 in the 2nd wave were due to negligence as it refused to entertain a plea seeking compensation for the kin of the victims by treating it as medical negligence.

Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has found a doctor of an urban health centre guilty of medical negligence leading to the death of a woman and ordered him to provide Rs 5 lakh compensation to the patient's husband.

Human touch is the duty of hospitals and they are required to implement it, said a Delhi state consumer commission while awarding Rs 20 lakh as compensation to parents of a Delhi resident who died of medical negligence in 2003.

An Indian expat in the UAE has been awarded a compensation of Rs 39 lakh by a court in Sharjah for his wife's death due to medical negligence, a media report said.

The state consumer commission in Maharashtra has directed a civic-run hospital in Navi Mumbai and a Chembur-based hospital to pay over Rs 15 lakh compensation to a woman whose husband died nine years ago due to "medical negligence".

A 24-year-old pregnant woman in Tamil Nadu is HIV positive after infected blood was given to her during a blood transfusion at a government hospital in Virudhunagar district, around 500 km from Chennai.The government has offered financial compensation and jobs for the woman and her husband but they want help for private treatment after the negligen...

A woman has moved to the Madras High Court seeking a directive to doctors of a government hospital to pay Rs.10 lakh compensation for alleged medical negligence since she conceived despite undergoing a tubectomy surgery.

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum (NCDRF) directs a private hospital to pay an amount of Rs. 8 lakhs as compensation to a man who lost his wife in 2008 due to medical negligence at the hospital's end.

In a landmark order, a consumer disputes redressal commission in Bengaluru has asked three doctors of Fortis Hospital to pay a compensation amounting to Rs 23.5 lakh to the family of a woman who died allegedly due to medical negligence.

The Delhi consumer commission has directed a private hospital and two orthopaedics to pay Rs 25 lakh as compensation to a patient who had suffered 40 per cent disability on his left leg due to medical negligence.

The Madras High Court has ordered the Tamil Nadu government to pay a compensation of Rs 28.37 lakh to the next of kin of a woman who died in 2012 after being in coma for 411 days due to administration of nitrous oxide instead of oxygen at a state-run hospital.

The Thane District Consumer Forum has directed two doctors to pay a compensation of Rs 3.20 lakh to a Kochi-based woman for medical negligence.