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Maryland Appellate Court Decides Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Case Was Timely Filed

October 22, 2013

On October 18, 2013, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Appeals”) held that the Legislature did not intend to define “wrongful act” so as to render a wrongful death claim contingent on the decedent’s ability to timely file a tort claim prior to death in a medic[...]

Contributory Negligence Dooms Maryland Jury’s $1.765M Actos Award

September 28, 2013

On September 26, 2013, after less than one day of jury deliberations following four weeks of trial, a Baltimore jury calculated its award in the total amount of $1,765,000 in favor of the plaintiffs in their product liability lawsuit against the large pharmaceutical company Takeda Pharmaceuticals[...]

Fireworks During Maryland ACTOS Trial

September 25, 2013

The Maryland wrongful death jury trial against the manufacturer of the diabetes drug Actos that began on September 3, 2013 in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City (only the second state Actos case to go to trial in the United States) is expected to conclude late next week yet it has resulted in [...]

Maryland Actos Trial Underway

September 6, 2013

On September 3, 2013, a Baltimore City jury trial began in which the plaintiff alleges that the diabetes drug Actos was the cause of the bladder cancer that led to the death of a former U.S. Army translator in 2012. Actos is manufactured by Asia’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, Takeda P[...]

$346,272 Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Veteran’s Death

August 31, 2013

On August 28, 2013, a federal judge in Baltimore, Maryland awarded $346,272 to the family of a veteran who died on October 11, 2007 as a result of medical malpractice at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Baltimore. The 59-year-old veteran had been discharged to home from the VA Medical[...]

Maryland’s Highest Court Reinstates $2.8M Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 27, 2013

On August 22, 2013, Maryland’s highest appellate court, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Appeals”), reinstated a Maryland medical malpractice verdict in the amount of $2,874.398 that the intermediate appellate court (the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland) had vacat[...]

Falsified Medical Records In Medical Malpractice Cases

August 16, 2013

Few things make medical malpractice juries seeth with anger more than evidence that a patient’s medical records were falsified sometime after the alleged incident of medical malpractice so that the records appear to support that the medical malpractice defendant was not negligent in the care[...]

Changes To Maryland’s Medical Assistance Lien Regulations For Medical Malpractice Claims

August 12, 2013

Effective June 24, 2013, Maryland made changes to its Medical Assistance (“MA”) lien recovery regulations that set forth the manner in which the amount of the lien will be reduced in medical malpractice and other personal injury claims for attorney’s fees incurred by the MA recipi[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Undiagnosed Ectopic Pregnancy

July 24, 2013

On July 18, 2013, a Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $513,129.00 for the loss of her fallopian tube due to a certified nurse midwife’s alleged negligent failure to diagnose her ectopic pregnancy. The jury deliberated for 90 mi[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Vacates $28 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

July 10, 2013

On July 3, 2013, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Special Appeals”), Maryland’s second highest appellate court, vacated a Baltimore medical malpractice jury verdict in the amount of $28,301,825 (the Maryland medical malpractice jury originally awarded the plainti[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Finds Hospital Owed Duty To Pysch. Patient Who Left The Hospital ER And Jumped From A Bridge

July 5, 2013

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“the Appellate Court”) rendered its written opinion on June 27, 2013 in a case that held that the trial judge in a Maryland medical malpractice claim against a Baltimore hospital alleging serious injuries suffered by a patient with psychiat[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict ($620,000) For Neck Injuries During Spinal Tap

June 19, 2013

A Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $620,000 in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiff on June 13, 2013 after an eight-day trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. The Maryland medical malpractice jury deliberated for four hours on June 13, 2013 before[...]

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