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Wisconsin Medical Malpractice Reforms Have Led To Injustice For Medical Negligence Victims

March 28, 2015

The Yiddish term “chutzpah,” which means shameless audacity, can be best explained by the following example: after a young man was found guilty of brutally killing his parents, he begged the sentencing judge for leniency, noting that he was an orphan. Chutzpah may best describe the Wi[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Decision In Failure To Timely Diagnose Colorectal Cancer Case

March 27, 2015

In its unreported decision rendered on March 13, 2015, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”) had to decide whether the Maryland medical malpractice jury’s verdict in favor of the plaintiffs should be upheld. The Appellate Court held that it was proper for t[...]

Recent Study Focused On Reducing Infections In Nursing Homes

March 26, 2015

In a study recently published online in JAMA Internal Medicine, the researchers found that a multimodal targeted infection program (“TIP”) implemented in nursing homes reduces the overall prevalence of multidrug-resistant organisms (“MDROs”) and infections in nursing home r[...]

Cardiology Medical Malpractice Claims Statistics

March 25, 2015

A recent review by the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer in the United States of 429 cardiology medical malpractice claims that closed between 2007 and 2013 found that allegations of diagnosis failure (the failure to diagnose, the delay in diagnosis, and/or the wrong diagnosis)[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Orders New Trial In Medical Malpractice Case

March 24, 2015

By its written opinion approved for publication on March 17, 2015, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“Appellate Court”) ordered a new trial for the medical malpractice plaintiff, holding that the trial judge had committed reversible error when the judge prevented th[...]

Vermont Mental Health Malpractice Lawsuit Follows Teen’s Suicide Death

March 23, 2015

On March 16, 2015, the mother of a teenage daughter who committed suicide while receiving mental health treatment in a residential facility in Vermont filed a mental health malpractice lawsuit against the Vermont mental health treatment facility, alleging that the defendant’s negligence le[...]

7 Rhode Island OB Practices Settle Unapproved IUD Claims

March 22, 2015

Seven Rhode Island obstetrical practices have agreed to settle claims against them alleging that they implanted unapproved versions of the Mirena and ParaGard intrauterine devices (“IUDs”) in patients and then sought the higher reimbursement for FDA-approved IUDs. An IUD is a small T-s[...]

$6.6M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Heroin Addict Paralyzed By Hospital Negligence

March 21, 2015

On March 11, 2015, after five days of trial and two days of jury deliberations, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury found a local hospital responsible for a man’s permanent paralysis following his discharge from its Emergency Department in 2010. The man was a heroin addict when he went to[...]

Massachusetts Appellate Court Overturns Dismissal Of Defendant Physician

March 20, 2015

By its decision entered on March 11, 2015, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Appeals Court (“Appeals Court”) overturned the dismissal of one of the defendant physicians in a medical malpractice case, finding that the dismissal of the defendant physician was prejudicial error because the [...]

Michigan Medical Malpractice Trial Begins For Hospital’s Mistake Of Patient’s Blood Type

March 19, 2015

A Michigan medical malpractice trial began earlier this week in a case where the plaintiff alleges that a hospital mixed up her blood with another patient’s blood that led her to be transfused with the wrong blood-type, causing her serious injuries. The Michigan medical malpractice trial again[...]

North Carolina Judge Corrects Medical Malpractice Trial Error

March 18, 2015

A Henderson County, North Carolina judge entered an order earlier this month that restored a North Carolina medical malpractice jury’s original calculation of noneconomic damages for a medical malpractice plaintiff in the amount of $516,161 that the jury had reduced to $1 due to a faulty jur[...]

Pending Proposal Would Triple Maryland Cap On Noneconomic Damages For Catastrophic Injuries

March 17, 2015

A bill pending in the Maryland House of Delegates, if approved and signed into law (a big “if” in Maryland), would triple Maryland’s limit on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases for catastrophic injuries. House Bill 398 defines a catastrophic injury as death, or per[...]

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