Federal Medical Malpractice Claims Archives - Page 10 of 18

Florida Federal Appellate Court Finds Inmate Claims Of Deliberate Indifference To Serious Medical Need Sufficient

October 24, 2017

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion filed on October 3, 2017 that the U.S. District Court erred in dismissing an inmate’s complaint before any of the defendants filed a response or the parties had c[...]

Hawaii Medical Malpractice Case Settled For Unnecessary Death Of 8-Year-Old

September 27, 2017

A Hawaii medical malpractice case filed after the unnecessary death of an 8-year-old second grader from Hilo, Hawaii was recently settled by the U.S. government for $850,000 (the health care clinic where the child was treated was a federally qualified health center for which the U.S. government was [...]

New Mexico Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Loses For Failure To Timely Update Expert’s Report

September 5, 2017

The United States District Court for the District of New Mexico (“New Mexico federal court”) on August 8, 2017 granted summary judgment to the New Mexico medical malpractice defendants in its Memorandum Opinion and Order that stated that the plaintiff had the burden to prove through expe[...]

U.S. Court Of Appeals (8th Cir.) Upholds Nebraska’s Cap On Medical Malpractice Damages

July 17, 2017

In its opinion filed on June 22, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (“U.S. Court of Appeals”) held that Nebraska’s cap on damages in medical malpractice cases did not violate the U.S. Constitution’s Seventh Amendment because the Seventh Amendment [...]

$33.8M Florida Birth Injury Verdict By Federal Judge

April 25, 2017

On April 17, 2017, a United States District Judge with the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida awarded the plaintiffs a total of $33,813,495.91 against the United States for the severe and permanent birth injuries suffered by their child during his birth on Decemb[...]

$13.5M South Dakota Medical Malpractice Judgment Against 78-Year-Old Former Heart Surgeon

March 21, 2017

On March 2, 2017, a federal judge in South Dakota entered a $13.5 million judgment against a 78-year-old former South Dakota heart surgeon in a case involving a 21-year-old heart patient on whom the defendant performed heart surgery in 2010 that resulted in profound neurological injuries that the pl[...]

$2.5M Phoenix VA Medical Center Medical Malpractice Verdict For Delayed Diagnosis Of Prostate Cancer

March 16, 2017

On March 6, 2017, a federal judge awarded an 18-year Army veteran $2.5 million for the harm he suffered because the Phoenix VA Medical Center had failed to schedule an appointment for him for one year, and then when he was finally seen, it was a physician assistant who examined him and found that he[...]

Newly Proposed Federal Legislation Would Eviscerate Medical Malpractice Victim Rights

March 1, 2017

The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee approved on February 28, 2017 by a vote of 18 to 17 proposed federal legislation, H.R. 1215, that if passed by the full House and Senate and signed into law, would drastically harm medical malpractice victims throughout the United States by sever[...]

Amputated Leg May Be Best Evidence Establishing VA Medical Negligence

January 23, 2017

A 46-year-old man’s amputated leg, which he had donated to a non-profit organization for canine search and rescue training a year-and-a-half earlier, was retrieved by the man’s VA medical malpractice lawyer in July 2016 and may be the best evidence that medical negligence at the VA Puget[...]

Guam Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed For Baby’s Death

December 3, 2016

The parents of a 5-week-old baby who died allegedly as a result of medical negligence have filed a federal medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit in the District of Guam against a health center, a physician’s assistant, and other unnamed defendants after the physician’s assistant dia[...]

Federal Judge Awards Maximum Allowable Damages In West Virginia Medical Malpractice Case

November 30, 2016

On November 15, 2016, a federal judge ruled in favor of a woman and her husband in a federal medical malpractice case, finding that the woman’s physician, who was a federal employee, acted with reckless disregard to a risk of harm to the woman, thereby leading the judge to award the plaintiffs[...]

What Is President-Elect Donald Trump’s Position On Medical Malpractice Tort Reform?

November 16, 2016

Now that Donald Trump is the President-Elect of the United States, the innocent victims of medical negligence whose lives have been disrupted and whose hopes and aspirations for the future have been destroyed, and the medical malpractice attorneys who represent them, are wearily wondering the effect[...]

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