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Florida Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Case

May 11, 2016

In its opinion filed on April 1, 2016, the District Court of Appeal of Florida Second District (“Appellate Court”) affirmed the dismissal of the plaintiff’s Florida medical malpractice lawsuit because the plaintiff failed to file her complaint within the two-year statute of limitat[...]

Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Live Kidney Donor Death

April 11, 2016

The wife of a 40-year-old man who was a live donor of a kidney that was implanted into his 69-year-old father has filed a Florida medical malpractice lawsuit against the surgeon who performed the live kidney removal, and his medical practice, alleging that the defendant surgeon’s medical negli[...]

Florida Butt Lift Doctor’s Medical License Restricted

March 29, 2016

An Order of Emergency Restriction of License was issued by the State of Florida Department of Health on February 17, 2016, which immediately restricted a Florida physician who specialized in performing butt lifts and liposuction procedures on women at a Florida surgery center, from performing lipo[...]

Quest Diagnostics Sued For Alleged Pathology Malpractice In Death Of Basketball Icon

March 1, 2016

On January 15, 2016, a Florida basketball icon died from advanced oral cancer that his widow alleges in her Florida medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit, which was filed on February 15, 2016, was avoidable had a Quest Diagnostics pathologist properly read a biopsy slide in 2011 that an indepe[...]

Florida Woman Died After Hospital Called Police To Remove Her From The ER

February 9, 2016

On December 21, 2015, a 57-year-old Florida woman went to the local hospital emergency room, complaining of abdominal pain. When the hospital staff attempted to discharge her from the ER, she complained that she was having trouble breathing. Instead of evaluating the woman’s breathing compla[...]

Successful Florida Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Not Entitled To Her Attorney Fees

February 6, 2016

In its opinion filed on January 15, 2016, the District Court of Appeal First District, State of Florida (“First District”) held that the successful medical malpractice plaintiff’s attempt to recover her attorney fees under section 768.79, Florida Statutes (2011), and Florida Rule [...]

Nursing Home Negligence: Resident Falls And Then Placed Back In Bed Without Proper Medical Care

January 31, 2016

It is too often that we are contacted by the family of a nursing home resident who was seriously injured after falling out of bed or from a wheelchair while in the nursing home, only to be placed back in bed or placed back in a wheelchair, without receiving proper medical evaluation and medical care[...]

Florida Plastic Surgeon Sued By Three Former Breast Implant Patients

January 21, 2016

A Jacksonville, Florida plastic surgeon and his medical practice have been sued by three former breast augmentation patients, within a period of four days in October 2015, alleging that the plastic surgeon was negligent in performing their multiple breast implant surgeries. In each of the cases, th[...]

Florida’s Amendment 7 Pre-Empted By Federal Law

November 7, 2015

In its written opinion filed on October 28, 2015, the District Court of Appeal First District (“Appellate Court”) held that Florida’s Amendment 7 (Article 10, section 25, of the Florida Constitution), which was adopted in 2004 and provides “a right to have access to any reco[...]

Florida Appellate Court Discusses Subsequent Treating Physician Testimony In Medical Malpractice Cases

October 12, 2015

In a medical malpractice case decided on September 24, 2015 by the District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida Fourth District (“Appellate Court”), the Appellate Court held that a subsequent treating physician’s testimony during a Florida medical malpractice trial was admissi[...]

Florida Inmates File Class-Action Lawsuit Seeking Hernia Surgeries

September 29, 2015

On September 16, 2015, three Florida inmates filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court seeking a court order permitting them to consult surgeons regarding their need for hernia surgery and authorizing hernia surgeries if deemed necessary. One of the plaintiffs had been advised twice by a su[...]

$4.1M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict Overturned On Appeal

August 27, 2015

In its decision filed on August 26, 2015, the Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida (“Appellate Court”) overturned a Florida medical malpractice jury’s award of damages in the amount of $4,101,776 to a young child and her parents. The Florida medical malpractice jury h[...]

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