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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Holds Informed Consent Irrelevant In Medical Negligence Claim

April 10, 2015

In its decision dated March 25, 2015, the Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania Middle District (“the Court”) held that in a medical malpractice case where the plaintiff has not raised a lack of informed consent claim, informed consent evidence is irrelevant to the issues to be decided by th[...]

California Appellate Court Remands For Proper Calculation Of Medicaid Lien On Medical Malpractice Settlement Proceeds

April 9, 2015

In its published written opinion filed on April 2, 2015, the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District Division One State of California (“Appellate Court”) held that the methodology employed by the trial court in determining a claim for reimbursement made by California’s State D[...]

$17.8M Colorado Medical Malpractice Verdict For Injury To Four-Day-Old Baby

April 8, 2015

On March 27, 2015, a Colorado medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $17.8 million, the largest medical malpractice verdict ever in Colorado, for the severe and permanent injury to her four-day-old baby that allegedly resulted from being given the [...]

Johns Hopkins University Sued For $1B For STD Studies Conducted In Guatemala 70 Years Ago

April 7, 2015

On April 1, 2015, a lawsuit was filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against Johns Hopkins University, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Bristol-Myers Squibb for their alleged part in U.S. government studies conducted in the 1940s in Guatemala that allegedly involved infecting hundreds of p[...]

Los Angeles County Agrees To $4.5M+ Medical Malpractice Settlement

April 6, 2015

On March 31, 2015, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors gave its approval to the settlement of a man’s medical malpractice claims against Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center. The medical malpractice settlement includes a $4.5 million payment to the plaintiff along with waiving the[...]

Baltimore Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Failed Penile Implant Surgeries

April 5, 2015

On March 24, 2015, a man and his wife filed a Baltimore medical malpractice lawsuit against a urologist, his medical practice, and a Baltimore hospital for the alleged negligence involving two penile implant surgeries that ultimately left the man unable to have sexual intercourse with his wife. T[...]

Louisiana Medical Malpractice Case Filed Against Urgent Care Center

April 4, 2015

On December 8, 2014, the mother of a young girl who died after being negligently treated at an urgent care center in Louisiana filed a medical malpractice/wrongful death lawsuit against the urgent care facility, seeking unspecified compensatory damages for wrongful death as well as for her men[...]

$28M Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Kaiser Permanente For Failure To Order Timely MRI

April 3, 2015

A Los Angeles medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of $28,215,278 in favor of a young woman who suffered catastrophic injuries that the jury found was due to the medical negligence of Kaiser Permanente, after a hard-fought medical malpractice trial that lasted four weeks. The yo[...]

Kansas Supreme Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Radiologist In Medical Malpractice Case

April 2, 2015

In its opinion dated March 27, 2015, the Supreme Court of the State of Kansas (“Kansas Supreme Court”) had to decide whether the Kansas medical malpractice plaintiff had provided sufficient evidence of causation to survive summary judgment in a case where it was alleged that the defen[...]

Maryland’s Highest Appellate Court Discusses Reasonableness Of Damages Caps

April 1, 2015

In its decision rendered on March 30, 2015, the Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), Maryland’s highest appellate court, had to decide the extent to which the Maryland General Assembly intended, and was within its authority, to limit a local government’s financial [...]

In The Medical Malpractice Debate, Words Do Matter

March 31, 2015

There has been a intense battle in the United States for more than four decades over so-called medical malpractice “reforms” that has received insufficient press coverage and inadequate public outcry, especially since anyone may become an unsuspecting victim of medical negligence at an[...]

Delaware Medical Malpractice Case Involved Altered Medical Records

March 29, 2015

The Superior Court of Delaware issued a decision on February 17, 2014 in a Delaware case where it had been previously determined that the Delaware medical malpractice defendant physician and her physician’s assistant had altered their medical records for a four-day-old patient to make the[...]

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