California Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 10 of 18

California Supreme Court Says Injured Worker Cannot Sue Comp Doctor For Medical Malpractice

September 16, 2018

The Supreme Court of California held in its published opinion filed on August 23, 2018 that “We conclude that the workers’ compensation law provides the exclusive remedy for the employee’s injuries and thus preempts the employee’s tort claims” in a case where a utilization reviewer[...]

California Appellate Court Rules Nursing Home Resident’s Choking Death Was Not Elder Abuse

September 8, 2018

In its July 12, 2018 unreported opinion, the Court of Appeal of the State of California Fourth Appellate District Division Three (“California Appellate Court”) ruled that the choking death of a nursing home resident who was given the wrong meal was not “elder abuse” because t[...]

California Appellate Court Reduces Punitive Damages Award From $70M To $19.6M In Malfunctioning Surgical Stapler Case

July 8, 2018

The Court of Appeal of the State of California First Appellate District Division Five (“California Appellate Court”), in its opinion filed on June 13, 2018, reduced the punitive damages award by a California jury from $70 million to $19.7 million (i.e., two-times the amount of the compen[...]

California Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Failure To Perform Timely Cesarean Delivery Of Distressed Baby

June 14, 2018

A California medical malpractice jury returned a defense verdict on May 25, 2018 in a California birth injury medical malpractice case where the parents-to-be claimed that two doctors delivering their full-term baby failed to timely perform a Cesarean section delivery after the fetal heart monitorin[...]

California Nursing Home Negligence Lawsuit Alleges Resident Set On Fire While Smoking

May 5, 2018

A California nursing home negligence lawsuit filed in mid-April 2018 by the father of a 55-year-old mentally impaired resident who is partially paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair alleges that the resident was allowed to smoke in an unsafe manner which led to him being found engulfed in flames wh[...]

California Nursing Home Accused Of Dumping Resident On Skid Row

April 21, 2018

A former resident of a California nursing home has accused the nursing home of dumping him at a homeless shelter on skid row, despite the fact that the resident had insurance that was paying for his nursing home care. The former California nursing home resident claims that he does not know why the f[...]

$68M California Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Cardiac Surgeon Who Left Before Surgery Completed

April 7, 2018

A California medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against a cardiac surgeon in the amount of $12,390,000 in punitive damages on March 19, 2018, in addition to the $55,600,000 in compensatory damages that the California medical malpractice jury awarded to the plaintiff on March 1, 2018, due [...]

California Appellate Court Refuses To Enforce Arbitration Of Nursing Home Claims

March 18, 2018

In its decision filed on February 26, 2018, the Court of Appeal of the State of California Fourth Appellate District Division Three (“California Appellate Court”) affirmed the order of the trial court that denied the defendant nursing home’s petition to compel arbitration as to the[...]

$13.16M California Medical Malpractice Verdict For Brain Damage Suffered During Endoscopy

February 20, 2018

A California medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $13.16 million late last week in favor of a young woman who suffered a brain injury during an endoscopy procedure due to her blood pressure being dangerously low during the procedure. The $5 million that the California jury [...]

California Appellate Court Finds Pharmaceutical Company Not Liable For Physician’s Malpractice In Drug Trial

January 12, 2018

The Court of Appeal of the State of California Second District Division Five (“California Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion filed on January 3, 2018 that a pharmaceutical company conducting a trial of a new drug owed no duty to a study participant to intervene in his medi[...]

California Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Claims Forceps Left In Patient During Surgery

January 3, 2018

A California woman has filed a medical malpractice case in California in which she alleges that surgical forceps were left in her abdomen during an exploratory laparotomy in April 2017, resulting in the need to have further surgery to remove the 8-inch long surgical instrument and 18 inches of her s[...]

California Doctor Strikes Back At Nursing Home

January 1, 2018

A California doctor filed a lawsuit against a California nursing home and its employees on December 19, 2017, alleging that they falsified his physician orders and falsified the nursing home medical records for a 67-year-old nursing home resident who died as a result of alleged nursing home negligen[...]

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