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$100M Delaware Vaginal Mesh Verdict

June 4, 2015

On May 28, 2015, a Delaware jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $100 million ($25 million in compensatory damages and $75 million in punitive damages) against Boston Scientific Corporation, the manufacturer of the transvaginal mesh that was implanted in the plaintif[...]

Delaware Medical Malpractice Case Involved Altered Medical Records

March 29, 2015

The Superior Court of Delaware issued a decision on February 17, 2014 in a Delaware case where it had been previously determined that the Delaware medical malpractice defendant physician and her physician’s assistant had altered their medical records for a four-day-old patient to make the[...]

$3.4M Delaware Medical Malpractice Verdict

December 21, 2014

On December 11, 2014, after a seven-day trial and three hours of jury deliberations, the 52-year-old plaintiff in a Delaware medical malpractice case was awarded $3,425,515 in damages for her loss of income, medical expenses, and her pain and suffering arising out of an allegedly botched surgery on [...]

Delaware Supreme Court Affirms $4.4M Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 22, 2014

By its opinion filed on August 7, 2014, the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware (“Delaware Supreme Court”) upheld a Delaware medical malpractice jury verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $4.4 million ($3.75 million to the injured man and $650,000 to the man’s wife[...]

Disruptive Delaware Doctor Ordered To Pay Hospital’s Attorney’s Fees

January 3, 2014

The Supreme Court of the State of Delaware (“Delaware Supreme Court”) affirmed a lower court’s decision that an orthopedic surgeon who previously had privileges at a Delaware hospital must pay the hospital’s attorney’s fees in the amount of $412,942.85 and costs in the a[...]

Be Glad This Delaware Doctor Was Not Your Doctor

December 20, 2013

A 32-year-old Delaware gynecologist has made a total mess of her life and is facing a possible 20-year federal prison sentence after being indicted on December 12, 2013 by a federal grand jury in Wilmington, Delaware, for the alleged illegal distribution of a controlled substance. On December 13, 2[...]

1,402 Victims Of Delaware Pedophile Pediatrician Advised Of Their Settlement Payments

December 3, 2013

In one of the most egregious and disgusting cases of a pediatrician abusing his defenseless patients, a former Delaware pediatrician reportedly filmed himself raping about 100 children, including babies, and abused hundreds of others. The pediatrician abused his young patients (the average age o[...]

Delaware Medical Malpractice Trial For 8-Month Erection Problem

June 14, 2013

A medical malpractice trial is underway in Delaware against a Wilmington urologist by his former patient who clams that the urologist’s medical negligence in performing his penile implant surgery caused him to have an erection that lasted 8 months. The three-piece inflatable penile implant [...]

Chiropractor Malpractice Statistics

September 27, 2012

Quoting from the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook: Chiropractors treat patients with health problems of the musculoskeletal system, which is made up of bones, muscles, ligaments, and tendons. They use spinal manipulation and other techniqu[...]

What Is Medical Malpractice? (Delaware, New Hampshire, Vermont)

September 16, 2012

What is medical malpractice? Here are the “official” definitions of medical malpractice from Delaware, New Hampshire, and Vermont: Delaware Insurance Code Insurance CHAPTER 68. HEALTH CARE MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE INSURANCE AND LITIGATION Subchapter I. Definitions § 6801. Definitions. For th[...]

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