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South Dakota Medical Malpractice Verdict For Surgical Malpractice

January 25, 2014

On January 16, 2014, after four days of trial and three hours of jury deliberations, a South Dakota medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $776,000 against the defendant surgeon and in favor of a woman who suffered end-stage liver disease allegedly as a result of her surg[...]

VA Medical Malpractice Claim For Failure To Advise Patient Of Melanoma Diagnosis

January 24, 2014

A federal medical malpractice lawsuit involving the Bath VA Medical Center in New York was filed on January 8, 2014 on behalf of a 70-year-old man whose malignant melanoma was diagnosed after a biopsy of a skin lesion but he was not advised of the diagnosis of melanoma until two years later. Th[...]

New Effort To Reimpose Medical Malpractice Cap In Missouri

January 23, 2014

If you or a family member may be the victim of medical negligence in Missouri that causes horrendous and debilitating pain and suffering or other substantial noneconomic harms, your right to receive fair, just, and full compensation for your losses and injuries is being attacked, once again, by Mi[...]

Two Massachusetts Maternal Deaths At One Hospital In Thirty Days

January 22, 2014

Within a 30-day period, two mothers who had given birth in the same hospital in Weymouth, Massachusetts died shortly after delivery. The two deaths within a one month period are unusual because maternal deaths are rare — there were only three maternal deaths in Massachusetts in 2012, three[...]

Maryland Physician Discipline Statistics For Fiscal Year 2013

January 21, 2014

The Maryland Board of Physicians Annual Report to the Legislative Policy Committee for Fiscal Year 2013 that was forwarded on November 7, 2013 stated that the Board had issued 1,800 initial medical licenses, 152 reinstated medical licenses, and registered 2,650 unlicensed medical practitione[...]

Washington Supreme Court Finds Part Of Medical Malpractice Law Unconstitutional

January 20, 2014

On January 16, 2014, the Supreme Court of the State of Washington (“Washington Supreme Court”) held that a Washington statute that eliminates tolling of the statute of limitations for minors in the context of medical malpractice claims is unconstitutional: “We hold that RCW 4.16.[...]

Louisiana Medical Malpractice Lawsuit For Emergency Room Negligence (Twice)

January 19, 2014

On December 23, 2013, a Louisiana medical malpractice lawsuit was filed by a woman on her own behalf and on behalf of her two minor children for the death of her husband that was due to alleged medical malpractice that occurred in a hospital emergency room on two separate occasions. The medical m[...]

New York Diet Pill Lawsuit

January 18, 2014

On January 6, 2014, an Army reservist in New York filed a lawsuit in the Kings County Supreme Court against a health food business alleging that she was injured as a result of using the diet pills she purchased from the business that led to her inpatient treatment at a mental hospital. Her[...]

Connecticut $8M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Suicide

January 17, 2014

In December 2013, a Connecticut medical malpractice jury determined that a former Connecticut physician and his employers were negligent in the medical care and treatment that led to a patient committing suicide (the patient also killed his wife, but the jury’s verdict was in favor of the man[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Insurance Rates Keep Dropping

January 16, 2014

In December 2013, the Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland (“Medical Mutual”), which insures more Maryland physicians than all other medical malpractice liability companies in Maryland combined, announced a special dividend of 25% for its policyholders for 2014 in a[...]

New Doctor Dies Due to Medical Negligence

January 15, 2014

A Pennsylvania medical malpractice lawsuit filed by the parents of a new physician who graduated from medical school on May 11, 2013 alleges that the 26-year-old woman died on May 29, 2013 due to the negligence of a hospital where she had sought medical treatment. The woman went to the hospital beca[...]

California Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Against Absent Cardiac Surgeon

January 14, 2014

A California medical malpractice lawsuit was filed late last month in the Superior Court of California for Fresno County that alleges that a well-known California cardiac surgeon who performed open heart surgery on a patient on April 2, 2012 to treat his ascending aortic aneurysm, failed to rema[...]

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