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Informed Consent Claim In Maryland Medical Malpractice Cases

February 6, 2014

Medical malpractice claims often include a separate claim for lack of informed consent, which is a claim separate (and different) from a medical malpractice claim. A medical malpractice claim involves the allegation that a health care provider breached the applicable standard of care required unde[...]

$32.8M Pennsylvania Birth Injury Verdict For Spastic Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy

February 5, 2014

On January 17, 2014, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury found in favor of the plaintiffs and against two nurses who were the defendants whom the jurors determined to have been negligent in failing to alert the doctor performing the delivery of a baby that the baby’s heart rate had droppe[...]

$330.7M Risperdal Verdict In Louisiana Overturned

February 4, 2014

By its written opinion dated January 28, 2014, the Supreme Court of Louisiana (“Louisiana Supreme Court”) reversed (overturned) a lower court’s verdict that had awarded civil penalties in the amount of $257,679,500.00, attorney fees in the amount of $70,000,000.00, and costs [...]

Hershey Medical Center Pays $400,000 To Settle Medical Malpractice Claim

February 3, 2014

The family of a 76-year-old man who had been litigating a medical malpractice case against the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania for five years has settled the medical malpractice claims by agreeing to accept $400,000 from the Pennsylvania hospital. The family had [...]

FDA Issues Testosterone Therapy Safety Alert

February 2, 2014

On January 31, 2014, the FDA issued a Safety Announcement regarding FDA-approved testosterone products. The FDA’s alert concerns the risk of stroke, heart attack, and death in men taking testosterone products that the FDA had previously approved; two recent studies suggest an increased ris[...]

Oregon Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Child’s Lost Testicles

February 1, 2014

On January 23, 2014, an Oregon jury found in favor of the defendants in a medical malpractice lawsuit that claimed that a little boy’s testicles were negligently lost during surgery to address his undescended testicles. The twelve-person jury deliberated for about six hours after a six-day t[...]

Republican Party’s Alternative To Obamacare Shows Its Disdain For Our Jury System

January 31, 2014

The Republican Party’s recently published counter-proposal in response to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) shows its utter disdain for the American jury system. The Republican Party’s proposal, which it calls The Patient Choice, Affordability, [...]

Kentucky Lawmakers Looking To Pass Unnecessary Medical Malpractice Laws

January 30, 2014

Some Kentucky lawmakers, with the backing, support, and legislative push of a vocal and powerful coalition of financially-interested health care groups, are setting their sights on pushing forward with their agenda of imposing unnecessary medical malpractice “reforms” that will benefit[...]

$27.5M Ohio Verdict For Mesothelioma Victim

January 29, 2014

On December 18, 2013, after an 11-day trial, a jury in Ohio awarded a 40-year-old man and his wife a record $27.5 million for the man’s mesothelioma, a rare and often fatal cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. The jury awarded the man $515,000 in economic damages, $12 million in nonecono[...]

Did California Hospital Intentionally Cover Up Cause Of Patient’s Death?

January 28, 2014

In a California medical malpractice/wrongful death case scheduled for trial shortly, a California hospital is alleged to have intentionally covered up the real cause of a patient’s death. The lawsuit alleges that the hospital and the patient’s surgeon conspired to deflect their respons[...]

$2.5M Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Teen’s Misdiagnosed Cancer Death

January 27, 2014

On January 17, 2014, after a five-day medical malpractice trial, a Maryland jury in a very conservative jurisdiction returned its verdict in the amount of $2.5 million after finding a surgeon was medically negligent in failing to timely diagnose a 19-year-old’s cancer that resulted in her dea[...]

Connecticut Supreme Court Says Medical Records Admissible As Evidence Of Causation In Medical Malpractice Claim

January 26, 2014

In its decision published on December 31, 2013, the Connecticut Supreme Court examined the circumstances under which a treating physician’s medical records can be admitted as evidence of causation in a medical malpractice action. The Connecticut Supreme Court stated that an expert’s opinion i[...]

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