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$229,640,000 Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Labor And Delivery Birth Injury

July 5, 2019

On July 1, 2019, after two-and-a-half hours of jury deliberations, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $229,640,000 in favor of the plaintiff against a Johns Hopkins hospital for the catastrophic brain injury suffered by her premature baby born at the hospital [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Applies One Satisfaction Rule In Affirming Dismissal Of Maryland Medical Malpractice Case

May 8, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s highest appellate court, in its opinion filed on April 29, 2019 stated, “When multiple tortfeasors contribute to a plaintiff’s injuries, the plaintiff may choose how to structure his or her litigation[...]

MedStar Health Agrees To Pay U.S. $35 Million To Resolve Allegations That It Paid Kickbacks To MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates In Exchange For Referrals

April 3, 2019

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on March 21, 2019 that MedStar Health Inc. (“MedStar”), which has its headquarters in Columbia, Maryland, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, and MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore, have agreed to pay the United States $[...]

Maryland Orthopedic Surgeon Sues Another Maryland Orthopedic Surgeon For His Injury Sustained During Simultaneous Knee Replacement Surgeries

February 28, 2019

One Maryland orthopedic surgeon sued another Maryland orthopedic surgeon for the injuries he sustained while they were simultaneously performing two knee replacement surgeries on the same patient. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant failed to stay on his side of the surgical table and thereby c[...]

Maryland’s Highest Appellate Court Finds No Error In Instructing Medical Malpractice Jury As To General Negligence

February 9, 2019

The Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s highest appellate court, held in its opinion filed on January 25, 2019 that the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it gave standard general instructions on negligence and foreseeability in addition[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment Granted To Medical Malpractice Defendant Based On Statute Of Limitations

February 1, 2019

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion filed on January 18, 2019 that the Maryland medical malpractice plaintiff “clearly was aware by August 2010 that he had a MRSA infection in his left leg, that the infection was con[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Who Refused To Continue With Trial After Mistrial Motion Was Denied Held To Have Waived Appellate Review

January 10, 2019

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, ruled in its unreported opinion filed on December 31, 2018 in a Maryland medical malpractice case in which the trial judge denied the plaintiff’s motion for a mistr[...]

Investigative Report Finds Johns Hopkins Did Not Follow Its Own Safety Rules

December 31, 2018

The Tampa Bay Times reported on December 30, 2018: “Johns Hopkins touts itself as a national leader in patient safety. Its doctors invented a simple checklist credited with saving thousands of lives. They developed a system to reduce medical mistakes through teamwork and communication. They wr[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Reinstates $3.7M Gross Negligence Verdict Against Baltimore EMTs

October 25, 2018

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), in its unreported opinion filed on October 1, 2018, reinstated a $3,707,000 verdict in favor of the estate of a man who died from a myocardial infarction (heart attack) that the Baltimote medical malpractice jury had [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Finds Medical Malpractice Case Against Johns Hopkins Hospital Was Filed Too Late

September 10, 2018

In its unreported opinion filed on August 14, 2018, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) held that the Maryland medical malpractice plaintiff had filed her Maryland medical malpractice claim after the relevant statute of limitations for medical malpractic[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Case Remanded To Determine If Dismissal Was Appropriate For Failure To File Supplemental Certificate

August 8, 2018

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), in an unreported opinion filed on August 2, 2018, remanded to the circuit court a Maryland medical malpractice case where the plaintiff failed to timely file a supplemental certificate and the circuit court thereafter[...]

$500K Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict In Lap Chole Case

March 4, 2018

On February 6, 2018, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $500,000 in a Baltimore medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff alleged that the defendant surgeon negligently clipped the common bile duct during her gallbladder removal[...]

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