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Three Alabama Prisoner Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Filed For Three Inmate Deaths In 2013

November 3, 2014

An Alabama civil rights attorney recently filed three Alabama prisoner medical malpractice lawsuits on behalf of the families of three inmates who died as a result of three different incidents of alleged medical neglect in 2013. All three of the prisoners were being detained in the Madison Count[...]

Did California Doctor Treating The Uninsured Take Inappropriate Photographs Of Patients?

November 2, 2014

A California medical clinic serving uninsured and indigent patients announced on October 23, 2014 that it had suspended a doctor’s privilege to practice at the clinic after allegations arose that the doctor had taken sexually inappropriate photographs of patients at the clinic. The allegati[...]

Florida Doctor Allowed To Surrender Medical License To Avoid Criminal Prosecution For Alleged Sexual Misconduct With Patients

November 1, 2014

On October 20, 2014, Florida officials announced that a Daytona, Florida doctor had agreed to surrender his Florida medical license pursuant to an agreement that will avoid his criminal prosecution for alleged sexual misconduct with his patients. The doctor had been charged with two counts of misd[...]

$4.2M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Paralysis Caused By Negligent Post-Op Care

October 31, 2014

On October 22, 2014, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury took just two-and-a-half hours after a week-long trial to award a 64-year-old man and his wife $4.2 million ($3,743,388.30 in economic damages and $1 million in noneconomic damages) for their injuries and damages arising out of the alleged [...]

New Jersey Supreme Court Considers Doctor’s Duty To Disclose Lack Of Medical Malpractice Insurance

October 30, 2014

On October 20, 2014, the New Jersey Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that may decide if New Jersey physicians are under a duty to disclose to their patients that they do not have medical malpractice insurance coverage for the procedure being performed, and whether a surgical center where[...]

Medical Malpractice Payments In The U.S. Were At Continuing Record Low For 2013

October 29, 2014

Earlier this month, Public Citizen, the well-respected national non-profit organization that represents consumer interests with more than 300,000 members and supporters, issued its report entitled, “Medical Malpractice Payments Remained At Historic Low In 2013 Despite Slight Uptick,” th[...]

$38M Settlement Approved Following $91.5M West Virginia Nursing Home Negligence Jury Verdict

October 28, 2014

On October 20, 2014, a West Virginia judge gave final approval to a settlement reached in a nursing home negligence case in which a jury had awarded $91.5 million to the plaintiffs in 2011. The judge approved the distribution of the $38 million settlement funds as follows: $20.5 to the family member[...]

New York Appellate Court Sets Standard For Bringing Legal Malpractice Claim After Unsuccessful Medical Malpractice Claim

October 27, 2014

In its October 21, 2014 decision, the Court of Appeals State of New York (“Court of Appeals”), New York’s highest appellate court, ruled that prior to commencing a legal malpractice action, a party who is “likely to succeed” on appeal of the underlying medical malpract[...]

Recent Study Of The Impact Of Medical Malpractice Caps On Average Malpractice Payment Size

October 26, 2014

The authors of a study published online on October 22, 2014 by HealthAffairs sought to investigate the impact of medical malpractice caps on noneconomic damages on the average size of medical malpractice payments for ten medical specialties as well as for physicians overall. The researchers found[...]

Medical Malpractice Reforms Protecting ED Physicians Have Had Little Effect On The Practice Of Medicine

October 25, 2014

In a research study published on October 16, 2014 in The New England Journal of Medicine, it was reported that in three U.S. states that had passed medical malpractice reform legislation to require a greater showing of medical negligence in order for patients injured by emergency room physicians [...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Summary Judgment For Defendant Reversed

October 24, 2014

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, has reversed a trial court’s granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant in a Maryland medical malpractice case. The trial judge had granted judgment for the defenda[...]

A Recent Study Of Closed Anesthesia Medical Malpractice Claims

October 23, 2014

In a study published earlier this month in the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management that is entitled “Analysis of Patient Injury Based on Anesthesiology Closed Claims Data from a Major Malpractice Insurer,” the authors reviewed 607 anesthesia-related medical malpractice claims reported [...]

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