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Maryland Senate Bill To Establish Birth Injury Fund To Be Studied By Task Force

March 2, 2014

Maryland Senate Bill 798, which would have established the Maryland No-Fault Birth Injury Fund (“Fund”) for the “adjudication and compensation of a claimant for a birth-related neurological injury,” was put on hold when its sponsor in the Maryland Senate added an amendment[...]

Kansas Senate Seeks Medical Malpractice Cap Increase And Other Reforms

March 1, 2014

The Kansas Senate has taken the initial step to increase the $250,000 cap on noneconomic damages in all personal injury actions, including medical malpractice cases, that was enacted in 1988 but had not increased since then despite inflation. The original Kansas cap on noneconomic damages in medic[...]

$9.1M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Leg Amputation After Broken Ankle

February 28, 2014

Earlier this month, a New York State Supreme Court medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiff in the amount of $9.1 million, which included $2.8 million for economic losses (past and future medical expenses and lost wages), $6 million for noneconomic d[...]

Medical Malpractice Payout Statistics For 2013

February 27, 2014

On February 19, 2014, a large medical malpractice insurance company that provides medical malpractice insurance and consulting services to more than 13,000 health care providers in the United States published its annual report regarding medical malpractice payout statistics for the United States f[...]

Michigan Medical Malpractice Jury Awards $1.3M For Scarring After Surgical Infection

February 26, 2014

On February 18, 2014, a Michigan medical malpractice jury awarded a now 43-year-old woman $1.3 million for her injuries and damages following her elective surgery. The jury deliberated for less than six hours after a ten-day trial before awarding $500,000 for the woman’s pain, suffering, ment[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against ER Doc For Death of 6-Year-old

February 25, 2014

On February 24, 2014, a Texas medical malpractice lawsuit was filed against an emergency room physician and others for the death of a 6-year-old who had been misdiagnosed in the emergency room, was sent home, and died four hours later. The parents’ medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that the [...]

California Appellate Court Holds That Biliary Stent Is A Foreign Object

February 24, 2014

On May 24, 1996, surgeons implanted a stent in the plaintiff’s bile duct during emergency abdominal surgery, following the man suffering a serious gunshot wound. The plaintiff alleged that he was unaware of the implanted stent until August 10, 2010, when he sought medical treatment fo[...]

Kansas Senate Distrusts Its Citizens To Decide Medical Malpractice Cases

February 23, 2014

On February 19, 2014, the Kansas Senate passed Senate Bill 119 that would require that Kansas medical malpractice claims be initially filed with a three-member panel that would determine if the defendant(s) breached the applicable standard of care in rendering (or failing to render) medical care [...]

Settlement Announced For Fraudulent Medicare Billing Scheme In Maryland

February 22, 2014

On February 18, 2014, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland announced that a medical billing company, its owner, and three Maryland medical practices that were clients of the medical billing company have agreed to pay a total of $3,340,979.50 to resolve claims that the medi[...]

Virginia Medical Malpractice Law Says A Fetus Is A Patient

February 21, 2014

In an opinion filed on January 10, 2014, a Virginia appellate court held that a fetus who was injured in the womb due to alleged medical malpractice is considered a “patient” and therefore her medical malpractice claim arose under Virginia’s Medical Malpractice Act, Code Sections 8[...]

Medical Malpractice Claims Involving Undiagnosed Heart Disease In Women

February 20, 2014

The Doctors Company (the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer in the United States) conducted a study of closed medical malpractice claims involving undiagnosed heart disease in women and found that in 61% of the medical malpractice claims, the patient died when her heart conditio[...]

$4.2M California Settlement For Dietary Supplement Injury

February 19, 2014

A 24-year-old California man recently settled his lawsuit against a dietary supplement distributor for $4,225,000 after he suffered acute liver failure and kidney failure in 2009 after using a dietary supplement. The dietary supplement had been recalled after the FDA expressed its concern that t[...]

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