Merrillville Doctor’s Arrest is an Encouraging Sign for Medical Malpractice Lawyers
For four years, Indiana medical malpractice lawyers and hundreds of patients injured by Dr Mark Weinberger have been waiting for news of the fugitive doctor. Finally came the news they had all been waiting for, when the doctor was arrested dramatically from a mountain top in Italy.
Weinberger is the center of hundreds of malpractice lawsuits filed by patients who claim they underwent needless surgeries performed by Weinberger. Dr Weinberger’s haphazard operations did nothing to cure patient problems, and, in fact, left most of them seriously injured. In 2006, a federal grand jury in Hammond indicted Weinberger of 22 counts of fraudulent over billing procedures that were not necessary or never performed. Five years ago, Weinberger disappeared while he was vacationing in Europe.
He was arrested on the 15th of December on a mountain top near the France-Italy border. The authorities had been tipped off by a mountain guide. Weinberger had been living in a tent, and guides had been curious because it was unusual to see people camping in the freezing northern Italian mountainside this time of the year.
Weinberger’s dramatics didn’t end with his arrest. While he was being arrested, he managed to stab himself in the neck. However, his wounds were not life threatening. Since then, an Italian court has approved an extradition request for Weinberger. He has 300 medical malpractice claims against him. These patients will now have some hope of receiving justice for their medical injuries.
