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Georgia Appellate Court Panel Says Juries May Decide What Is Emergency Medical Care

October 18, 2013

In a written opinion of a panel of the Court of Appeals of Georgia (“Appellate Court”) dated October 9, 2013, the Appellate Court held that it may be a question of fact to be determined by the jury whether the medical malpractice claims of the plaintiff arose out of the provision of �[...]

$2.85M South Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Paraplegia

September 23, 2013

On September 13, 2013, a Horry County, South Carolina medical malpractice jury awarded a hospital emergency room patient and his wife $2.85 million ($2,300,000 to the man and $550,000 to his wife) for the paraplegia the man suffered as a result of medical malpractice at the hospital. The manR[...]

Federal Appellate Court Reinstates Wyoming Medical Malpractice Verdict

July 19, 2013

By its Order and Judgment dated July 2, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (which includes Wyoming) reinstated the $2 million verdict for a wife’s loss of consortium claim awarded by a federal Wyoming medical malpractice jury, and upheld the $7 million verdict in favor of th[...]

New York State-Operated Hospital Killed Patient With Impunity

July 15, 2013

On March 7, 2013, a 41-year-old single mother of a mentally disabled teenage daughter died after her over two-year battle with lung cancer that was treatable and curable had a New York state-operated hospital not committed medical malpractice in 2010. When the woman arrived at the emergency roo[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Finds Hospital Owed Duty To Pysch. Patient Who Left The Hospital ER And Jumped From A Bridge

July 5, 2013

The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“the Appellate Court”) rendered its written opinion on June 27, 2013 in a case that held that the trial judge in a Maryland medical malpractice claim against a Baltimore hospital alleging serious injuries suffered by a patient with psychiat[...]

Missouri Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Failure To Treat Uninsured’s Necrotizing Fasciitis

July 4, 2013

A Missouri medical malpractice lawsuit is scheduled for a jury trial in September 2013 for the disabling injuries and the substantial pain and suffering sustained by a 66-old-man who claims that a Missouri hospital emergency room failed to provide him required medical care because he did not have[...]

Mississippi Federal Judge Lambasts Mississippi’s Cap On Non-Economic Damages

July 3, 2013

On June 13, 2013, a federal judge in Mississippi upheld as constitutional Mississippi’s $500,000 cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases but harshly criticized the application of the cap in the case before him. As the judge stated in his Order, “All grief is not equal. [...]

Georgia Supreme Court To Review Emergency Medical Care Gross Negligence Standard

July 2, 2013

In case a before the Supreme Court of Georgia that is scheduled for oral argument today, the parents of a 15-year-old who died as a result of pulmonary embolism despite being seen in a hospital emergency room two weeks earlier brought a medical malpractice claim against the emergency room physicia[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict ($620,000) For Neck Injuries During Spinal Tap

June 19, 2013

A Maryland medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $620,000 in favor of the medical malpractice plaintiff on June 13, 2013 after an eight-day trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. The Maryland medical malpractice jury deliberated for four hours on June 13, 2013 before[...]

New York Court Of Appeals Side-Steps Loss-Of-Chance Recovery In Medical Malpractice Case

June 10, 2013

In its decision filed on June 6, 2013, the New York Court of Appeals (“Court of Appeals”) declined to decide if the “loss-of-chance” theory of tort recovery is available in New York medical malpractice cases. The loss-of-chance doctrine allows recovery to patients “[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Reinstates $1.1 Million Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict

March 29, 2013

On March 21, 2013, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Special Appeals”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, reinstated a Maryland medical malpractice jury’s verdict in the amount of $1,123,000 for a man who the jury found would have been admitted into a[...]

Maryland Medical Malpractice Appeal Determines Nephrology And Urology Are Related Specialties

March 11, 2013

In an appeal decided by the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Appellate Court”) on March 1, 2013, the issue was whether nephrology and urology are “related” fields under the circumstances of the case before it, as that term is used in subsubparagraphs §§ 3-2A-02(c)(2)(ii)1A [...]

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