$2M Baltimore City Lead Paint Verdict
September 27, 2014
On September 19, 2014, after a one-week trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, a jury returned its verdict in excess of $2 million to a now 17-year-old who suffered permanent brain damage as a result of his exposure to lead paint in a Baltimore City rental home in which he lived with his fa[...]
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Recent Study Questions True Costs Of Defensive Medicine
September 26, 2014
One of the medical industry’s favorite arguments for medical malpractice reforms that insulate negligent medical providers from liability for the harms they cause to medical malpractice victims who are not adequately compensated for their devastating injuries due to limits (caps) on damage[...]
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New Mexico Supreme Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Case
September 24, 2014
In a written opinion issued by the Supreme Court of the State of New Mexico (“New Mexico Supreme Court”) on September 18, 2014, the New Mexico Supreme Court reinstated a medical malpractice case that had ended in summary judgment being entered in favor of the defendant hospital because [...]
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Nevada Supreme Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Case
September 23, 2014
In its decision dated September 18, 2014, the Supreme Court of the State of Nevada (“Nevada Supreme Court”) reinstated a Nevada medical malpractice case that had been dismissed by the trial court because the plaintiff’s expert affidavit attached to her medical malpractice complai[...]
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Connecticut Supreme Court Reinstates Medical Malpractice Case
September 22, 2014
In its opinion released on September 9, 2014, the Connecticut Supreme Court reviewed the decision of the trial court in a Connecticut medical malpractice case where the trial court granted the defendants’ motions to dismiss the medical malpractice case even though it was commenced within one [...]
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Internal Audits Question Cancer Doctor’s Competency
September 20, 2014
A cancer doctor who worked from 1993 until 2011 at a Kansas medical practice owned by approximately seventy physicians, and now works at another physician-owned cancer center in Wichita, Kansas, was the subject of internal audits beginning in 2010 that addressed whether the oncologist treated [...]
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