Cruise Ship Medical Malpractice Claims
November 11, 2014
In a federal appellate case decided on November 10, 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (“Appellate Court”) declined to adopt the “Barbetta rule” that immunizes a shipowner from respondeat superior liability whenever a ship’s employees rende[...]
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$1.6M Utah Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict
November 9, 2014
On October 27, 2014, a Utah medical malpractice jury found Utah’s largest healthcare network provider responsible for the wrongful death of a patient who was found unresponsive by his wife after failing to wake up in the morning on April 3, 2008. The jury awarded $1,676,737 in compensatory da[...]
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$8.45M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Birth Injury
November 8, 2014
On October 21, 2014, a Georgia medical malpractice jury awarded $8.45 million for the birth injuries suffered during a 2008 delivery when the hospital where the baby was delivered failed to provide the newborn with a breathing tube for eight, long minutes, allegedly due to the hospital’s p[...]
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Missouri Urologist Loses Third Medical Malpractice Claim
November 7, 2014
A Missouri urologist was found to have committed medical negligence by a Missouri medical malpractice jury on October 31, 2014, following a two-day trial. The jury awarded the 58-year-old former patient of the urologist $240,000 for removing her kidney during surgery when it was allegedly unnecessa[...]
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Medical Malpractice Liability Trends In The United States
November 5, 2014
In a “special communication” published on October 30, 2014 in the online edition of The Journal of the American Medical Association, the authors reviewed recent trends in medical liability claims and costs in the United States that showed a “sharp reduction” in the rate of p[...]
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