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$2M Illinois Medical Malpractice Judgment For Child’s Permanent Hand Injury

June 18, 2019

On May 31, 2019, an Illinois judge entered a judgment in the amount of $2,022,195 against the defendant hospital, two doctors, and a medical practice as a result of a permanent hand injury suffered by a two-year-old child as a result of medical negligence in the emergency room. The Illinois medical [...]

$3.4M Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Toddler

June 14, 2019

On May 31, 2019, a Philadelphia medical malpractice jury returned its verdict after three days of deliberations in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $3.38 million for the death of their 21-month-old daughter in September 2014 because her strangulated small intestine was not diagnosed in time [...]

North Carolina Appellate Court Rejects Loss Of Chance Doctrine In Medical Malpractice Case

June 3, 2019

In its opinion filed on May 21, 2019, the Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“North Carolina Appellate Court”) held: “There is a split of authority around the country as to whether a patient may recover for the injury of the mere “loss of chance” of a better medical outcome pr[...]

Florida Emergency Room Physician Who Prevailed In Medical Malpractice Case Sues The Plaintiff’s Lawyer

May 22, 2019

A Florida emergency room physician who ultimately prevailed in a Florida medical malpractice case filed against him by the surviving husband of a woman he treated in a hospital emergency room in 2007 who died 12 hours after being discharged from the ER is suing the plaintiff’s Florida medical [...]

$3.8M California Medical Malpractice Settlement For Woman In Coma Since 2015

May 4, 2019

The family of a woman who was 33-years-old when she suffered cardiac arrest in the defendant hospital’s emergency room on February 25, 2015, and has been in a coma ever since, has agreed to settle the California medical malpractice lawsuit that was filed in October 2016, for $3.8 million. The [...]

$110M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Properly Treat Asthma Attack

April 26, 2019

On April 12, 2019, a New York medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $110.6 million in favor of a 48-year-old New York medical malpractice plaintiff who suffered a massive brain bleed that left her with slurred speech and confined to a wheelchair due to the defendants’ [...]

$2.35M Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death Due To Delayed Diagnosis Of Aortic Aneurysm

April 8, 2019

On March 6, 2019, three defendant physicians agreed to settle a medical malpractice case in which they were alleged to have failed to timely diagnose and treat a hospital patient’s aortic aneurysm in the emergency department, which led to his death. The defendant emergency room attending physi[...]

$6.1M Oklahoma Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of 19-Year-Old In ER

April 6, 2019

An Oklahoma medical malpractice jury found in favor of the plaintiffs on March 21, 2019, awarding the family of a 19-year-old who died as a result of hospital medical malpractice in the emergency room $6,190,000 for the teenager’s wrongful death. The Underlying Facts While attending college du[...]

Georgia Couple’s Lawsuit Alleges Hospital Flushed Their Stillborn Fetus Down The Toilet

March 26, 2019

A Georgia couple is suing a Georgia hospital for $2 million, alleging that in May 2018, while the woman was 16 weeks pregnant, she went to the defendant hospital where she delivered her stillborn fetus while sitting on the toilet in the hospital ER, and that a nurse and doctor then flushed the fetus[...]

$4.7M Georgia Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Check Central Line Placement

February 19, 2019

On January 31, 2019, a Georgia medical malpractice jury returned a $4.7 million verdict in favor of a woman whose lower right leg was permanently damaged when medication was administered in the ICU through a central line that was misplaced in the emergency room. The emergency room doctor who placed [...]

Maryland Appellate Court Upholds Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Despite Inadmissible Expert Testimony

December 11, 2018

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Maryland Appellate Court”) affirmed a defense verdict in a Maryland medical malpractce case in an unreported opinion filed on December 7, 2018, despite the inadmissible testimony of a defense fact witness who was a physician at the hospital wher[...]

Texas Supreme Court Finds Expert’s Report Sufficient In Medical Malpractice Case

December 6, 2018

The Supreme Court of Texas (“Texas Supreme Court”) held in its opinion delivered on November 16, 2018 that the Texas medical malpractice plaintiff’s expert’s report sufficiently identified the applicable standard of care and the link between the defendant hospital’s nur[...]

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