Florida Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 13 of 23

98-Year-Old Florida Nursing Home Resident Died After Being Left Outside In The Sun

June 11, 2018

A 98-year-old Florida nursing home resident who was outside in the hot sun for an unknown period of time on May 27, 2018 was found unresponsive with a temperature of 103.2 degrees. She died two weeks later in the hospital from hyperthermia caused by exposure to the sun. An investigation by the Flori[...]

Florida Supreme Court Discusses What Is, And Is Not, A Medical Malpractice Claim

May 8, 2018

The Supreme Court of Florida (“Florida Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on April 26, 2018: “In accordance with the Legislature’s definition of medical malpractice and this Court’s relevant case law, we hold that for a claim to sound in medical malpractice, the act from[...]

Florida Supreme Court Overturns Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict For Improperly Admitted Expert Testimony

May 6, 2018

A deeply-divided Supreme Court of Florida (“Florida Supreme Court”) overturned a defense verdict in a Florida medical malpractice case on April 26, 2018, holding that the trial court erred by admitting the treating physician’s deposition testimony regarding how he would have treated th[...]

Florida Supreme Court Discusses Physician Treatment Rule In Narrowly Affirming Medical Malpractice Verdict

April 24, 2018

In its 4-to-3 decision filed on March 22, 2018, the Supreme Court of Florida (“Florida Supreme Court”) affirmed the final judgment in the amount of $4,101,476 in favor of the Florida medical malpractice plaintiffs. The lower appellate court had affirmed the trial court’s denial of the [...]

Florida Appellate Court Reverses New Trial Granted To Medical Malpractice Plaintiff

April 22, 2018

In its March 29, 2018 decision, the Court of Appeal of the State of Florida Fifth District (“Florida Appellate Court”) held that the trial court had abused its discretion in granting the Florida medical malpractice plaintiff’s motion for new trial, “because the record does no[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Claims Hospital Nurse High On Meth Caused Baby’s Brain Damage

March 19, 2018

The parents of a baby who suffered brain damage while in the hospital have filed a Florida medical malpractice lawsuit in which they allege that a hospital nurse was high on methamphetamine when he negligent dislodged the baby’s breathing tube while giving him a bath, which resulted in the bab[...]

Florida Assisted Living Negligence Lawsuit Alleges Wrongful Death Of 97-Year-Old Resident

February 8, 2018

The son and daughter of a 97-year-old resident of a Florida assisted living facility has filed a wrongful death negligence lawsuit against the assisted living facility, alleging that the resident was left outside in the excessive heat for about six hours on July 5, 2017 after she fell from her scoot[...]

$109M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict Subject To $100K Cap On Damages

February 7, 2018

On January 26, 2018, a Tampa medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in excess of $109 million in favor of the plaintiff who lost her hands and feet following minor surgery for a benign ovarian cyst. The now 52-year-old woman was a civilian intelligence analyst in late 2010 when she was not al[...]

Brazilian Butt Lift Performed In Florida Storefront Clinic Claims Another Life

January 11, 2018

Some women seeking enhancements of their buttocks are flocking to storefront clinics in the Miami-Dade area of Florida that advertise reduced-price Brazilian butt lifts (fat grafting to the buttocks), in which a metal rod is thrust repeatedly in and out of the body through a surgical incision in ord[...]

Florida Supreme Court Holds LMHS Lien Law Unconstitutional

January 5, 2018

In its opinion filed on December 20, 2018, the Supreme Court of Florida (“Florida Supreme Court”) held that the LMHS Lien Law is a special law pertaining to creation, enforcement, extension or impairment of liens, and since those liens are based on a private contracts for the receipt of [...]

$15.9M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Rheumatologist For Amputations

November 27, 2017

A Florida medical malpractice jury awarded a woman $15.9 million last month for the medical malpractice injuries she suffered in 2008 when she was 26-years-old. The Florida medical malpractice defendant is a rheumatologist who allegedly failed to properly treat the plaintiff in the hospital that wou[...]

Florida Appellate Court Rules Removing Stool In Examination Room Is Ordinary Negligence, Not Medical Negligence

November 23, 2017

The District Court of Appeal First District, State of Florida (“Florida Appellate Court”) ruled in its opinion filed on November 6, 2017 that a claim involving a urologist’s removal of a stool used by a patient to ascend onto an examination table that the urologist then removed aft[...]

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