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Baltimore City Is Latest Jurisdiction To Sue Opioid Manufacturers And Distributors

February 11, 2018

On January 31, 2018, the City of Baltimore filed a 105-page lawsuit against manufacturers, distributors and others who are alleged to be responsible for numerous injuries and damages to Baltimore City caused by fraudulent and reckless marketing of opioids. Baltimore’s opioid lawsuit alleges th[...]

Baltimore County, Maryland Announces Plans To Sue Opioid Manufacturers and Distributors

January 13, 2018

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz announced on January 8, 2018 that Baltimore County, Maryland intends to file a lawsuit in federal court in Baltimore against pharmaceutical companies that manufacture opioids and distribute opioids, seeking monetary damages incurred by Baltimore County in ad[...]

Report Faults Baltimore VA Medical Center’s Opioid Treatment Program

November 12, 2017

The October 19, 2017 report from the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General, Office of Healthcare Inspections, entitled, “Healthcare Inspection Opioid Agonist Treatment Program Concerns VA Maryland Health Care System Baltimore, Maryland” (Report No. 16-01091-06) state[...]

$18.6M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For 28-Year-Old’s Anoxic Brain Injury Due To Hospital Negligence

November 9, 2017

On November 3, 2017, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury awarded $18.6 million to a 28-year-old man for the catastrophic brain injury he suffered due to hospital negligence that occurred while the man was in the hospital being treated for an inflamed pancreas. The $18.6 million Baltimore medical ma[...]

$465K Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Kidney Cancer

October 23, 2017

On October 17, 2017, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury awarded a total of $465,000 to the estate of an 87-year-old man and his wife of 65 years for the failure to diagnose his kidney cancer for two years. After the man’s kidney cancer was finally diagnosed in 2015, he lived for only six wee[...]

$596K Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Colon Cancer

October 11, 2017

On October 5, 2017, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $596,000 ($176,000 in economic damages and $420,000 in noneconomic damages) against a man’s primary care physician for the physician’s role in the negligent failure to diagnose the 55-year-old [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Vacates $329K Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict

September 4, 2017

In its reported opinion filed on September 1, 2017, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, vacated a Baltimore medical malpractice verdict in the amount of $329,000 in favor of the plaintiff, holding that the [...]

$1M Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For 22-Year-Old’s Death

July 9, 2017

On June 30, 2017, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the family of a 22-year-old woman in the amount of just over $1 million for her wrongful death due to medical malpractice. During the five-day Baltimore medical malpractice trial, the jury heard testimony regardi[...]

$460K Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosed Lung Cancer Leading To Death

May 22, 2017

A Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in excess of $460,000 in favor of the wife and six adult children of a 79-year-old man whose lung cancer was misdiagnosed for years until it was at stage IV. The man died two years after he was finally diagnosed, which was five years after a [...]

Baltimore Lasik Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Permanent Eye Injury

May 21, 2017

A Maryland man has filed a Lasik malpractice lawsuit in Baltimore, Maryland, alleging that his Lasik surgeon misprogrammed the Lasik laser that resulted in the astigmatism in his left eye doubling as a result of the Lasik surgery he had in February 2016. The plaintiff alleges that he subsequently fo[...]

Maryland State Senator Called Unethical By Judge In Baltimore Medical Malpractice Case

February 24, 2017

During a January 25, 2017 hearing on the defense request for a postponement of trial in a Baltimore medical malpractice case, a Baltimore Circuit Court judge called a Maryland state senator who entered his appearance on behalf of the medical malpractice defendant, the University of Maryland Medical [...]

Baltimore Sun Commentary: “Ban Medical Malpractice Lawsuits”

December 28, 2016

On December 27, 2016, the Baltimore Sun published a commentary entitled “Ban medical malpractice lawsuits” that was written by someone whose qualifications to propose such included his PhD in chemical engineering and his retirement from Dupont in 1985. The commentator wrote, “Aboli[...]

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