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Tick-Borne Encephalitis Leads To $41,750,000 Verdict

July 6, 2013

On March 27, 2013, after eight days of trial, a Connecticut federal jury returned a verdict in the amount of $41,750,000 in favor of a now 20-year-old New York woman who contracted a very serious disease as a result of a tick bite that she experienced during her high school trip to China that h[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Finds Hospital Owed Duty To Pysch. Patient Who Left The Hospital ER And Jumped From A Bridge

July 5, 2013

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“the Appellate Court”) rendered its written opinion on June 27, 2013 in a case that held that the trial judge in a Maryland medical malpractice claim against a Baltimore hospital alleging serious injuries suffered by a patient with psychiat[...]

Missouri Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Failure To Treat Uninsured’s Necrotizing Fasciitis

July 4, 2013

A Missouri medical malpractice lawsuit is scheduled for a jury trial in September 2013 for the disabling injuries and the substantial pain and suffering sustained by a 66-old-man who claims that a Missouri hospital emergency room failed to provide him required medical care because he did not have[...]

Mississippi Federal Judge Lambasts Mississippi’s Cap On Non-Economic Damages

July 3, 2013

On June 13, 2013, a federal judge in Mississippi upheld as constitutional Mississippi’s $500,000 cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases but harshly criticized the application of the cap in the case before him. As the judge stated in his Order, “All grief is not equal. [...]

Georgia Supreme Court To Review Emergency Medical Care Gross Negligence Standard

July 2, 2013

In case a before the Supreme Court of Georgia that is scheduled for oral argument today, the parents of a 15-year-old who died as a result of pulmonary embolism despite being seen in a hospital emergency room two weeks earlier brought a medical malpractice claim against the emergency room physicia[...]

Competition For The Da Vinci Surgical System?

July 1, 2013

Robotic surgery represents the newest medical technology. The preeminent robotic surgery system, Intuitive Surgical’s proprietary da Vinci Surgical System, enables surgeons to perform delicate and complex operations through a few tiny incisions with increased vision, precision, dexterity, a[...]

$55 Million Settlement Approved For “Nose Doctor” Malpractice Lawsuits

June 30, 2013

On June 24, 2013, an Indiana judge approved a $55 million medical malpractice settlement involving 282 former patients of the self-proclaimed “Nose Doc.” The former Indiana surgeon allegedly performed unnecessary or fraudulent surgeries on patients so that he could bill insurance compani[...]

Washington State Medical Malpractice Verdict In Favor Of Anesthesiologist

June 29, 2013

On June 24, 2013, a Washington State medical malpractice jury deliberated for less than two hours before finding in favor of the defendant anesthesiologist in a medical malpractice lawsuit that alleged that the anesthesiologist was negligent in his care of a 66-year-old patient following minor surg[...]

Ohio Medical Malpractice Jury’s Flip Flop Causes Problems For Everyone

June 28, 2013

An Ohio medical malpractice verdict rendered by an eight-person jury on May 2, 2013 after a nearly four-week trial is at the center of a controversy regarding whether it is a legitimate verdict and should stand. The controversy involves the fact that six of the jurors (the minimum number of jurors [...]

U.S. Supreme Court Decision Shields Generic Drug Manufacturers

June 27, 2013

In its 5-4 decision filed on June 24, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States (“Supreme Court”) held that personal injury claims against generic drug manufacturers under design-defect consumer protection state laws that turn on the adequacy of a drug’s warnings are pre-empted [...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Cases Declining, But For The Right Reason?

June 26, 2013

A report from the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts has noted a decrease from 1,675 medical malpractice cases filed in the Pennsylvania courts in 2011 to 1,508 medical malpractice cases filed in 2012, representing a 10% decrease from 2011 to 2012. Before Pennsylvania began implementing m[...]

Chicago Hospital Pulmonologist Alleged To have Performed Unnecessary Tracheotomies

June 25, 2013

Some say that medicine is a cut-throat business. A hospital on the west side of Chicago applied that adage literally. According to the FBI, a Chicago for-profit hospital was able to bill as much as $160,000 for patients who received unnecessary tracheotomies due to a pulmonologist on the hospita[...]

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