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Alaska Lawsuit Alleges Bad Medical Care In Prison Led To Inmate’s Death

April 28, 2025

The Civil Rights Complaint, filed on March 4, 2025 in the United States District Court for the District of Alaska, states, in part: Source If you or a loved one were injured due to deliberate indifference or the lack of appropriate medical care while incarcerated in a prison, jail, or other correcti[...]

Alaska Supreme Court Holds Collateral Source Rule Affecting Medical Malpractice Claimants Violates Equal Protection

November 29, 2022

Collateral Source Rule Violates Equal Protection: In its November 18, 2022 opinion, the Supreme Court of the State of Alaska (“Alaska Supreme Court”) stated: “Alaska Statute 09.55.548(b) provides that when a medical malpractice claimant’s losses have already been compensated in p[...]

Alaska Doctor Sentenced To 34 Months For Illegal Prescriptions Resulting In 5 Deaths

April 24, 2022

The United States Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Alaska announced on January 18, 2022 that Wasilla, Alaska 64-year-old medical doctor David Chisholm has been sentenced by a federal judge to 34 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release and fined[...]

Alaska Supreme Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff’s Expert Was Unqualified

May 13, 2021

The Alaska Supreme Court, in its opinion filed on April 23, 2021, stated: “A husband and wife sued medical care providers after the wife suffered a seizure, allegedly due to a doctor’s decision to abruptly discontinue her medication. The superior court granted summary judgment to the medical[...]

Alaska Supreme Court Affirms Judge’s $13.8M Verdict Against Home Health Care Company

August 5, 2019

The Supreme Court of the State of Alaska (“Alaska Supreme Court”), in its opinion issued on July 12, 2019, affirmed a judge’s verdict for the plaintiff in the amount of $4,315,007 in damages for his breach of contract claim, which was trebled under Alaska’s Unfair Trade Practices[...]

Alaska Supreme Court Discusses Medical Peer Review Privilege Statute In Disallowing Discovery In Two Medical Malpractice Cases

November 21, 2018

The Supreme Court of the State of Alaska (“Alaska Supreme Court”) stated in its its opinion filed on September 14, 2018: “Alaska’s medical peer review privilege statute, AS 18.23.030, protects discovery of data, information, proceedings, and records of medical peer review organiz[...]

Alaska Supreme Court Affirms Plastic Surgeon’s Loss Of His Own Medical Malpractice Case

December 29, 2015

On November 25, 2015, the Supreme Court of the State of Alaska (“Alaska Supreme Court”) affirmed the lower court’s grant of summary judgment to the medical malpractice defendants in a medical malpractice case filed by an Alaska plastic surgeon that alleged that the defendants were [...]

$1.72M Alaska Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Neurosurgeon

May 12, 2014

On May 5, 2014, an Alaska medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $1.72 million against a neurosurgeon whom the jury found to have acted negligently and recklessly while performing surgery on a patient in 2009. The verdict included $232,000 for past medical expenses incurred b[...]

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[...]

Federal Judge Awards Alaska Medical Malpractice Judgment For 14-Month-Old’s Injuries

December 7, 2011

Medical malpractice can occur anywhere and at any time, even in remote areas like Alaska. In March, 2011, a federal judge with the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska entered a judgment against a health care clinic and a medical corporation that was the parent of the clinic in the amoun[...]

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