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$6.6M Sought In Oregon Dental Malpractice Case Involving Misdiagnosed Tongue Cancer

September 12, 2022

An Oregon man recently filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against his former dentist, alleging that the dentist negligently failed to diagnose his tongue cancer after he pointed out to the dentist some discoloration in his tongue during an office visit in 2013. The man’s dental malpractice la[...]

Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

Maryland Highest Appellate Court Rules Summary Judgment For Defendants In Dental Malpractice Case Based On Plaintiff’s Experts’ Testimony Was Inappropriate

August 25, 2022

Summary Judgment In Dental Case Ruled Inappropriate By Court: The Court of Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”), Maryland’s highest appellate court, stated in its opinion filed on August 25, 2022 in a dental malpractice case involving the bilateral severing of the patie[...]

$2.75 Million Michigan Dental Malpractice Verdict

June 28, 2022

$2.75 Million Michigan Dental Malpractice Verdict: After a three-day trial and ninety minutes of jury deliberations, a Michigan dental malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in mid-April 2022. The jury awarded $1.375 million for past pain and suffering and related damages, i[...]

Wisconsin Dentist Convicted Of Healthcare Fraud For Intentionally Breaking Patients’ Teeth

May 21, 2022

The U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on March 10, 2022, 61-year-old dentist Scott Charmoli was convicted of five counts of healthcare fraud and two counts of making false statements related to healthcare matters. The evidence presented at trial established that[...]

North Carolina Appellate Court Finds Continuing Course Of Treatment Doctrine Did Not Apply In Dental Malpractice Case

May 12, 2022

The Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“North Carolina Appellate Court”) discussed the continuing course of treatment doctrine in its opinion filed on March 1, 2022 in a North Carolina dental malpractice case where the plaintiff alleged that during a wisdom tooth extraction performed by[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Remands Dental Malpractice Lawsuit For Jurisdictional Discovery

April 17, 2022

In its per curium opinion filed on January 24, 2022, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) stated in a dental malpractice case where the trial court had dismissed the complaint on jurisdictional grounds, “the relevant time period to dete[...]

Arizona Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Dental Malpractice Case Because Plaintiff’s Expert Not Board-Certified In Same Specialty As Defendant

April 16, 2022

In Arizona medical malpractice cases, A.R.S. § 12-2604(A)(1) requires: “In an action alleging medical malpractice, a person shall not give expert testimony on the appropriate standard of practice or care unless the person is licensed as a health professional in this state or another state and[...]

Illinois Dental Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Improper Dental Implants

March 30, 2022

On January 12, 2022, a dental patient filed her dental malpractice lawsuit in the Madison County Circuit Court alleging that Wojtyna Dental LLC (d/b/a Aspen Dental), Dr. Graciela Romo, D.M.D., and Dr. Alexander Wojtyna, DDS committed dental malpractice by improperly placing her dental implants, by[...]

Arizona CRNA Not Disciplined After Two Dental Deaths

December 12, 2021

Tory Richmond, an Arizona nurse anesthetist (CRNA), has been named in two Arizona wrongful death lawsuits involving two dental patients who died while under his care. We wrote about one of those cases in our blog entry yesterday. The other case involves a dental patient whose mouth erupted in fire d[...]

Arizona Lawsuit Alleges Dentist’s And CRNA’s Negligence During Dental Procedure Led To Patient’s Death

December 11, 2021

A dental malpractice lawsuit filed on October 22, 2021 in Arizona alleges, in part: “Defendants performed an outpatient medical and dental procedure on Sharlon Stemmons without warning her of the risks of doing so given her age and health conditions. Defendants did not inform Sharlon Stemmons [...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Affirms Dental Malpractice Jury’s Damages Award But Remands On Liability And Proximate Cause

November 24, 2021

In its October 15, 2021 decision, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) held in a dental malpractrice case: “defendants have not challenged the amount of the jury award. The primary thrust of their contentions is that the trial court mad[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Affirms Claims Against Dentist Were For Dental Malpractice

September 15, 2021

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion dated August 18, 2021: “Plaintiff’s liability theories regarding Passera’s decision to extract the tooth on August 8, 1992, the decision to perform the extraction himself rather [...]

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