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Florida Appellate Court Holds Cap On Noneconomic Damages Unconstitutional In Medical Malpractice Cases

July 3, 2015

In its opinion filed on July 1, 2015, the District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida Fourth District (“Appellate Court”) held that the caps on noneconomic damage awards in personal injury medical malpractice cases are unconstitutional, extending a prior Florida Supreme Court cas[...]

West Virginia Supreme Court Upholds Punitive Damages Award In Medical Malpractice Case

July 2, 2015

In its wide-ranging opinion filed on June 16, 2015, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (“West Virginia Supreme Court”) upheld and affirmed a West Virginia medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the plaintiff that included an award of punitive damages in the a[...]

$3M Connecticut Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Cardiologist

July 1, 2015

On June 24, 2015, a Connecticut medical malpractice jury found in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiff and against a primary care physician and a cardiologist, awarding $3 million in compensatory damages. The Connecticut medical malpractice trial lasted six days and the jury deliberated for [...]

Misdiagnosis Of Ectopic Pregnancy

June 30, 2015

An ectopic pregnancy is a life-threatening condition in which the pregnancy occurs outside of the uterus (the womb). In a normal pregnancy, the fertilized egg travels through the fallopian tube to the uterus. However, if the movement of the egg is slowed or blocked through the fallopian tube, an e[...]

Four Michigan Hospitals Sued for Alleged Unlawful Agreement To Limit Their Marketing

June 29, 2015

On June 25, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against four Michigan hospital systems, each of which were the only hospitals in the Michigan counties they served, alleging that they unlawfully agreed to allocate terr[...]

Maryland Appellate Decision Regarding Informed Consent In Medical Malpractice Cases

June 28, 2015

In an unreported case from the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”) filed on June 22, 2015, one of the issues the Appellate Court had to decide was whether the trial court abused its discretion by admitting evidence of informed consent in a medical malpractice case[...]

Anesthesiologist Who Bad-Mouthed Sedated Patient Held Accountable By Jury Verdict

June 27, 2015

A patient who was scheduled to undergo a colonoscopy decided that he would record the gastroenterologist’s post-procedure instructions so that he would not forget what was told to him. The patient therefore pressed record on his smartphone’s audio recorder. What the patient did not know[...]

Maryland Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit Filed For Resident’s Painful Death

June 26, 2015

A Maryland nursing home negligence lawsuit was recently filed by the grandson and daughter-in-law of an 85-year-old resident of a Baltimore nursing home who suffered an unexplained fracture of her left arm and an unexplained dislocated right arm while she was a resident of the defendant nursing h[...]

California Lawsuit Alleges Counterfeit Spinal Hardware Used During Surgeries

June 25, 2015

Lawyers in California filed a lawsuit in February 2015, which was unsealed on May 28, 2015, alleging that 15 spine surgeons, 17 hospitals, and many others engaged in a health care fraud scheme and in a conspiracy by knowingly implanting counterfeit spinal hardware into patients in California, Maryla[...]

Largest Medicare Fraud Sweep Involving $712M In Alleged Medicare False Billings

June 24, 2015

On June 18, 2015, the U.S. Attorney General and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the largest nationwide sweep led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, resulting in charges against 243 individuals, including 46 doctors, nurses, and other licensed medical professionals, fo[...]

Baltimore Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Plastic Left In Patient’s Abdomen Following Unnecessary Surgery

June 23, 2015

A woman filed a Baltimore medical malpractice lawsuit on June 12, 2015 in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City alleging that the defendant surgeon who performed robotic-assisted surgery on her to remove her right ovary and fallopian tube, which she alleged was unnecessary surgery because she had S[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Allows Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Claim For Nonviable Fetus

June 22, 2015

In its decision filed on June 16, 2015, the Michigan Court of Appeals (“Appellate Court”) overturned the trial court’s granting summary judgment in favor of the defendants with regard to the plaintiff’s wrongful death claim on behalf of her nonviable fetus that alleged that[...]

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