Emergency Room Malpractice Archives - Page 9 of 22

Maryland Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Hospital’s Negligence Led To 19-Year-Old’s Death From Aortic Dissection

March 26, 2020

The parents of a 19-year-old who died from an aortic dissection filed a Maryland medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit in federal court in Baltimore on March 20, 2020 against a hospital located in Western Maryland and a physician and a physician’s assistant working in the hospital’s[...]

Indiana Appellate Court Refuses To Allow Medical Malpractice Plaintiff To Add Federal EMTALA Claim

March 13, 2020

The Court of Appeals of Indiana (“Indiana Appellate Court”) held in its opinion filed on February 18, 2020 that the trial court properly denied the Indiana medical malpractice plaintiff’s request to amend his medical malpractice complaint to add an additional count alleging a feder[...]

$816,988 North Carolina Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Spinal Epidural Hematoma After Neck Surgery

January 7, 2020

On December 13, 2019, a North Carolina medical malpractice jury deliberated for three and a half hours before returning its verdict in the amount of $816,988 against an emergency room physician, an orthopedic surgeon, and a hospital. The North Carolina medical malpractice jury awarded $400,000 in pa[...]

Emergency Medicine Malpractice Laws In The United States – Protecting Physicians But Harming Patients

November 5, 2019

The American Medical Association states on its website, “A physician who specializes in Emergency Medicine focuses on the immediate decision making and action necessary to prevent death or any further disability both in the pre-hospital setting by directing emergency medical technicians and in[...]

$10M New Orleans Medical Malpractice Verdict May Not Be Subject To $500K Damages Cap

September 23, 2019

On August 22, 2019, a New Orleans medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in the amount of $10 million in favor of the plaintiff who suffered a serious permanent arm injury as a result of negligent medical treatment for an arm fracture he suffered at a party in 2002 when he was two-years-old a[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment Granted To Nurses Who Failed To Diagnose 7-Year-Old’s Severe Ankle Injury, Leading to Amputation

September 12, 2019

The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) in its unpublished opinion filed on August 23, 2019, reversed summary judgment granted to the defendant nurses in a New Jersey medical malpractice case, finding that the plaintiffs established a prima faci[...]

$8.5M Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Jury Verdict For Failure To Diagnose Bladder Tumors On CT Scan

September 7, 2019

On August 21, 2019, a Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded a man and his wife $8.5 million for the injuries they suffered as a result of the defendant doctors’ failure to report to the man an incidental finding on a CT scan that showed a possible tumor in his bladder. As a result, the[...]

Emergency Departments Are The Fourth Most Common Healthcare Delivery Location For Medical Malpractice Claims

August 4, 2019

A report from Coverys released in June 2019 entitled “Emergency Department Risks: Through the Lens of Liability Claims,” which explored the root causes of medical malpractice claims occurring in the Emergency Department (“ED”) based on an analysis of 1,362 ED-related closed m[...]

West Virginia Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Emergency Room PA After Patient Lost Her Leg

July 28, 2019

On Friday, July 12, 2019, after a five-day jury trial, a West Virginia medical malpractice jury deliberated for three and a half hours late into the night before determining that an emergency room physician assistant did not breach the standard of care when he attempted to surgically drain a drug ad[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Rules Medical Malpractice Complaint Was Filed Too Late

July 17, 2019

Maryland’s Health Care Malpractice Claims Act (“the Health Care Claims Act”), codified in Maryland Code (1976, 2013 Repl. Vol.), Courts & Judicial Proceedings Article (“CJP”), § 3-2A-01, et seq., mandates that claims against a health care provider seeking damages (if [...]

$1.75M Maryland Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Verdict For Late Diagnosed Aortic Dissection

July 12, 2019

On June 25, 2019, after a one-week trial and seven hours of deliberations, a Baltimore medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the total amount of $1.75 million ($500,000 in economic damages, $500,000 in noneconomic damages to the surviving wife, $250,000 in nonec[...]

$11.5M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Verdict For Radiologist’s Failure To Diagnose Toddler’s Myocarditis

June 19, 2019

On June 6, 2019, after a two-week trial, a Massachusetts medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of a now 11-year-old child in the amount of $11.5 million for the defendant radiologist’s alleged negligent failure to diagnose her enlarged heart in a chest x-ray taken in the defen[...]

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