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Alabama Supreme Court: Expert Testimony Not Needed In Medical Malpractice Case Where Layperson Could Understand

August 26, 2013

In a case decided by the Supreme Court of Alabama (“Alabama Supreme Court”) on August 2, 2013, the Alabama Supreme Court stated the general rule that expert testimony is normally required in a medical malpractice case but the Court further stated, “A narrow exception to this rule[...]

Alabama Lawsuit Alleges Permanent Injuries From NECC’s Contaminated Steroid

June 8, 2013

As part of the continuing fallout from allegedly contaminated steroid injections manufactured by the New England Compounding Company (“NECC”), an Alabama woman has filed a lawsuit against NECC and a local Alabama hospital in which she claims that she received contaminated steroid inje[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Reinstates $3.2 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

May 22, 2013

It its decision issued on May 17, 2013, the Supreme Court of Alabama (“Alabama Supreme Court”) reinstated a $3.2 million verdict in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiff that the Alabama Supreme Court had earlier vacated in its decision dated January 14, 2011 that held that the m[...]

Alabama Lawsuit Alleges Medical Study Put Premature Infants At Risk

May 8, 2013

On April 18, 2013, the parents of five Alabama children filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama in which they allege that a study conducted at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and at other institutions that sought to determine the best level[...]

Alabama $3 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict For Widow of 56-Year-Old Man

April 15, 2013

After seventeen days of trial and about one hour of deliberations, an Alabama medical malpractice jury returned a verdict on April 9, 2013 in the amount of $3 million in favor of the widow of a 56-year-old man who died because his surgeon repeatedly delayed performing surgery to remove his infe[...]

Alabama Supreme Court Decision Rejects Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement

March 27, 2013

On March 22, 2013, the Supreme Court of Alabama (“Alabama Supreme Court”) issued its decision in a case contesting whether a nursing home resident’s representative (one of the daughters of the nursing home resident) bound her father’s nursing home malpractice claim to be ar[...]

Today’s 300th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting For medicalmalpracticelawyers.com

December 29, 2011

Today, medicalmalpracticelawyers.com is proud to celebrate its 300th consecutive daily blog posting. Over the course of 299 postings, we have explored numerous medical malpractice topics, including states’ medical malpractice laws, states’ statistics regarding medical malpractice cla[...]

Alabama Medical Malpractice Verdict For Man Who Bled To Death After Surgery

December 23, 2011

A 37-year-old Alabama man had surgery in a hospital for a duodenal ulcer. After the surgery, the man required multiple blood transfusions. Despite having a low blood count after the surgery, the man was discharged to home following the surgery, where he died a few days later from exsanguination in a[...]

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