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Medical Malpractice Verdict

California Appellate Court Affirms $3.9M Drug Rehab Malpractice Verdict For Patient’s Suicide

In its published opinon dated August 31, 2021, the Court of Appeal of the State of California Fourth Appellate District Division Three (“California Appellate Court”) affirmed a jury’s verdict in the amount of $3.9 million ($1.7 million for past damages… Read More

$1.5M Federal Medical Malpractice Verdict In Maryland For LAAM Procedure

On July 26, 2021, a federal medical malpractice jury in Maryland returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $1.5 million. The verdict included past medical expenses in the amount of $529,571.04, past lost wages in… Read More

Birth Injury Claims

Arizona Appellate Court Holds Medical Malpractice Apology Law Is Constitutional

Arizona Apology Law A.R.S. § 12-2605, which was adopted in 2005, states as follows: “Any statement, affirmation, gesture or conduct expressing apology, responsibility, liability, sympathy, commiseration, condolence, compassion or a general sense of benevolence that was made by a health… Read More

Minnesota Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment Against Premature Birth Medical Malpractice Plaintiff

The State of Minnesota Court of Appeals (“Minnesota Appellate Court”) stated in its nonprecedential opinion filed on August 2, 2021 in a Minnesota medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendants’ delay in providing appropriate medical care… Read More

Cancer Malpractice

Michigan Supreme Court Applies Discovery Rule To Revive Misread Mammogram Medical Malpractice Case

The Michigan Supreme Court, in its decision dated July 30, 2021, held that under Solowy v Oakwood Hosp Corp, 454 Mich 214 (1997), discovering the existence of a medical malpractice claim requires knowing a possible cause of the underlying injury…. Read More

New York Appellate Court Reduces $3,825,085.38 Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Failure To Diagnose Cancer Verdict By $650,000

The Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department (“New York Appellate Court”), in its Decision & Order dated July 28, 2021, reduced the jury’s verdict in the amount of $3,825,085.38 by $650,000, stating: “Damages… Read More

Nursing Home Medical Malpractice

CMS Study Reports On Disparate Effects Of COVID-19 On Nursing Home Residents

The recent CMS report entitled “The Impact of COVID-19 on Medicare Beneficiaries in Nursing” stated: “Nursing home residents account for about 2% of the Medicare population, but about 22% of all COVID-19 cases. Nursing home residents were 14 times more… Read More

Study Finds Less Than 50% Of Nursing Home CNAs Are Vaccinated Against COVID-19

A study published online in JAMA Internal Medicine on September 16, 2021 reported that less than half of CNAs in the nation’s nursing homes have received the COVID-19 vaccine. The researchers found: “Among the more than 14 900 nursing homes reporting… Read More

Drug Claims

Louisiana Doctor Charged With Illegally Dispensing Over 1.2M Opioid Doses

On August 27, 2021, a federal grand jury in New Orleans, Louisiana returned an indictment charging a Louisiana physician for his role in distributing over 1,200,000 doses of Schedule II controlled substances, including oxycodone and morphine, outside the scope of… Read More

Manhattan Pain Management Doctor Sentenced To 210 Months In Prison For Oxycodone And Fentanyl Prescriptions

On July 8, 2021, Gordon Freedman, a doctor who practiced in New York, New York, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 121 months in prison for participating in a scheme to receive bribes and kickbacks in the form of… Read More

Wrongful Death

California Appellate Court Affirms $3.9M Drug Rehab Malpractice Verdict For Patient’s Suicide

In its published opinon dated August 31, 2021, the Court of Appeal of the State of California Fourth Appellate District Division Three (“California Appellate Court”) affirmed a jury’s verdict in the amount of $3.9 million ($1.7 million for past damages… Read More

CMS Study Reports On Disparate Effects Of COVID-19 On Nursing Home Residents

The recent CMS report entitled “The Impact of COVID-19 on Medicare Beneficiaries in Nursing” stated: “Nursing home residents account for about 2% of the Medicare population, but about 22% of all COVID-19 cases. Nursing home residents were 14 times more… Read More

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