Colorado Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 3 of 5

Colorado Supreme Court Applies Substantial Compliance Standard In Enforcing Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement

July 5, 2018

A divided Colorado Supreme Court held in its opinion filed on June 11, 2018 that despite the defendant nursing home’s failure to strictly comply with the Colorado statute requiring that notice regarding nursing home arbitration agreements be emphasized by at least ten-point font and bold-faced[...]

$383.5M Federal Verdict Against GranuFlo Dialysis Provider DaVita

July 3, 2018

On June 27, 2018, a federal jury in Denver, Colorado returned its verdict in the amount of $383.5 million in favor of the families of three dialysis patients who suffered cardiac arrest and died after they received dialysis treatment at DaVita dialysis clinics using GranuFlo that the plaintiffs alle[...]

Colorado Supreme Court Disallows Ex Parte Communication In Medical Malpractice Case

March 23, 2018

In a Colorado medical malpractice case in which the issue was the scope of the physician–patient privilege, the Colorado Supreme Court held in its opinion filed on March 5, 2018 that the plaintiff’s non-party medical providers were not “in consultation with” the defendants such t[...]

Defense Verdict For Abortion Doctor Who Left Part Of Baby’s Skull In Woman’s Uterus

February 1, 2018

On January 22, 2018, a Colorado medical malpractice jury found in favor of an abortion doctor who performed a late-term abortion on the plaintiff and left more than a half of the baby’s skull imbedded in her uterus. The 79-year-old late-term abortion doctor was accused of negligently performin[...]

Colorado Appellate Court Discusses Right Of Medical Malpractice Party To Call Other Party’s Withdrawn Expert To Testify During Trial

July 14, 2017

The Colorado Court of Appeals stated in its opinion filed on June 29, 2017 that if one party in a Colorado medical malpractice case withdraws an endorsed “may call” expert witness shortly before trial or during trial, and the opposing party then announces that it wants to call the withd[...]

Colorado Orthopedic Surgeon Faces Five Medical Malpractice Claims, Serious Criminal Charges

May 2, 2017

A 63-year-old Colorado orthopedic surgeon who had been named as a defendant in three pending Colorado medical malpractice cases has now been named as a medical malpractice defendant in two more recently filed medical malpractice cases. He also has pending against him numerous felony charges that all[...]

$14.9M Colorado Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Ambulatory Surgery Center For Patient’s Permanent Paralysis

April 26, 2017

On March 23, 2017, a Colorado medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against the defendant ambulatory surgery center for the permanent paralysis suffered by a patient who was given a drug during an epidural steroid injection procedure that the manufacturer of the drug specificity warned agai[...]

Colorado Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed Against Hospital For Death Of 10-Year-Old

January 10, 2017

On December 22, 2016, the parents of a Colorado ten-year-old boy who died on Christmas Eve in 2014, forty minutes after being sent home from the defendant Colorado hospital’s emergency room, filed their Colorado medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against the hospital, a physician at th[...]

Colorado Appellate Court Requires Nursing Homes To Strictly Comply With Arbitration Statute

October 1, 2016

In its decision filed on September 8, 2016, the Colorado Court of Appeals (“Appellate Court”) held that in deciding the enforceability of an agreement to arbitrate under the Health Care Availability Act (“HCAA”), the test is strict compliance (rather than substantial compl[...]

Former Colorado Neurologist Sued By Four Patients Alleging Misdiagnosis Of MS

September 9, 2016

Four former patients of a former Colorado neurologist have filed federal medical malpractice lawsuits in Colorado against the neurologist, alleging that he misdiagnosed them with having multiple sclerosis (MS) and then negligently treated them for years for MS, which incurable disease they did not[...]

$5.5M Colorado Nursing Home Wrongful Death Verdict

May 22, 2016

On May 13, 2016, after a two-week trial, a Colorado nursing home wrongful death jury returned its verdict against a Colorado nursing home and its corporate owner in excess of $5.5 million, which included $5 million in punitive damages, $57,066.43 in economic damages, and $500,000 in wrongful death[...]

Colorado Late-Term Abortion Doctor Sued For Medical Negligence

May 4, 2016

A well-known late-term abortion doctor who practices in Boulder, Colorado has been sued by his former patient and her husband who allege that the defendant performed her late-term abortion improperly, leaving a piece of the skull of her aborted fetus inside of her that required surgery and left her [...]

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