Florida Medical Malpractice Archives - Page 5 of 23

Trial Judge Reduces $261M “Take Care of Maya” Medical Malpractice Verdict By $47.5M

April 4, 2024

A Florida medical malpractice jury had awarded $261 million in November 2023 to the Kowalski family in compensatory and punitive damages against Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital following a two-month-long trial and five-and-a-half years of litigation, for battery, false imprisonment, frau[...]

Florida Appellate Court Reverses Trial Court Granting JNOV And Awarding $1.125M In Medical Malpractice Case

March 17, 2024

A Florida medical malpractice plaintiff alleged that the defendant doctors were negligent in failing to timely refer Wendy Metzler for a chest CT scan, a delay which deprived her of a chance to have life-saving surgery. The case proceeded to a jury trial and resulted in a complete defense verdict. F[...]

Ex-Baseball Player’s Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Not Subject To Arbitration

February 17, 2024

Christopher Costello was a professional baseball player who played for two Florida-based minor league affiliates of theMinnesota Twins (the “Twins”). In March 2019, the Twins arranged for Costello to undergo a medical evaluation in Ft. Myers to determine if he was medically fit to participate in[...]

Florida Doctor Who Removed Patient’s Kidney Instead Of Gallbladder And Hurt Three Other Patients, All Within Nine Months, Has Clear/Active Medical License

December 7, 2023

Gregg Shore, M.D. of Sebring, Florida has been charged by the State of Florida Board of Medicine with removing a patient’s kidney instead of the intended gallbladder. The August 23, 2023 Administrative Complaint states, “Respondent performed a right nephrectomy and removed Patient M.T.�[...]

$20M Florida Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Due To Dilaudid After Surgery

November 20, 2023

In June 2020, 54-year-old Joshua Hamby, husband and father, was brought to a hospital emergency room by his wife because he was suffering from very painful acute pancreatitis. His wife of ten years was unable to stay with him due to COVID-19 restrictions at that time. The next day, the wife received[...]

$261 Million Total Verdict Against Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital In “Take Care Of Maya” Lawsuit

November 11, 2023

A St. Petersburg, Florida jury deliberated for sixteen hours over a period of three days after an eight-week trial before returning a verdict on November 9, 2023 for compensatory damages in the amount of $211,451,174, followed by an additional jury verdict in the amount of $50 million in punitive da[...]

$2.3M Florida Nursing Home Verdict For Death Due To Bedsore

November 1, 2023

On August 11, 2023, a Florida nursing home negligence jury returned its verdict after a four-day trial and four hours of deliberations in the amount of $2.3 million against a Florida nursing home for the death of a resident that the plaintiff alleged was due to the nursing home’s failure to pr[...]

$16M Jail Health Care Malpractice Verdict

October 26, 2023

In August 2023, a Florida jury awarded the surviving spouse and children of a jail inmate a total of $16 million, which included $6 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages, for the death of a jail inmate caused by the delay in providing medical treatment that led to the i[...]

Florida Appellate Court Holds Patient’s Complaint For Injuries From Slip And Fall On Wet Floor In Hospital Was Not Medical Malpractice Claim

October 23, 2023

In a case on appeal decided by the District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida Fifth District (“Appellate Court”) on August 11, 2023, the Appellant, who was a patient in the Appellee hospital, alleged that while she was walking towards the restroom she slipped and fell. The only cau[...]

Florida Supreme Court Changes Rule Regarding Interlocutory Appeals In Medical Malpractice Cases

September 6, 2023

Court Changes Rule Regarding Interlocutory Appeals: In its unusual opinion dated July 6, 2023, the Supreme Court of Florida stated: “We agree with the First District that, while Florida courts “have recognized exceptions” to the general rule that “certiorari review is an inappropriate me[...]

Florida Woman Misdiagnosed With Cancer Can’t Find A Lawyer To Represent Her

July 9, 2023

Woman Misdiagnosed With Cancer: 59-year-old Judy Karpinski underwent a biopsy in September 2021 of two small bumps on her shoulder and her back at Bay Dermatology in St. Pete Beach, Florida. The tissue samples from the biopsy were then sent to UF Health for evaluation. Two days before Christmas, Kar[...]

Former Sarasota Pain Doctor Sentenced In Health Care Fraud Kickback Conspiracy

June 25, 2023

Doctor Sentenced In Health Care Fraud: On December 7, 2022, U.S. District Judge William H. Jung sentenced Dr. Steven Chun (59, Sarasota) for conspiring to pay and receive kickbacks and bribes. Chun was sentenced to three years and six months in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $278,900, the pro[...]

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