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$825K Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Bladder Injury During C-Section

July 2, 2026

On June 15, 2026, a Montgomery County, Maryland medical malpractice jury deliberated for two and a half hours after a six-day trial before awarding a then 33-year-old woman who was injured during a C-section delivery of her second child $750,000 in noneconomic damages for pain and suffering and $75,[...]

$1M Medical Malpractice Settlement For Failure To Communicate HPV Test Results

December 20, 2025

In June 2025, a Virginia medical malpractice case was settled for $1.15 million in which the plaintiff alleged that her doctor’s office failed to tell her the results of an HPV test that caused a delay in being diagnosed with cervical cancer and resulting in a poor prognosis for Stage IVB cerv[...]

$1.25M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Settlement For Nurse Practitioner’s Delayed Diagnose Of Endometrial Cancer

February 19, 2025

On October 30, 2024, a Massachusetts medical malpractice lawsuit against a nurse practitioner who allegedly negligently delayed the diagnosis of endometrial cancer in a 55-year-old patient was resolved during meditation after the woman’s primary care physician had been deposed. The amount of t[...]

$30M Connecticut Medical Malpractice Verdict For Injuries To Mother’s Bladder And Uterus During C-Section

December 28, 2024

At the conclusion of four hours of jury deliberations after a three-week trial, a Connecticut birth injury medical malpractice jury awarded $30.3 million in economic and noneconomic damages against an OB and her medical practice. The then 32-year-old woman was under the care of the defendant medica[...]

Florida Appellate Court Revives Medical Malpractice Case In Dispute Over Expert’s Qualifications

July 26, 2024

Before filing suit for medical malpractice in Florida, a prospective plaintiff must conduct a statutory presuit investigation. This investigation determines whether the prospective plaintiff has “reasonable grounds to believe” that a prospective defendant provided negligent care or treatment tha[...]

Texas Supreme Court Limits Recoverable Damages In Medical Malpractice Case For Botched Sterilization Procedure

July 18, 2024

A mother sued her doctor and his medical practice for allegedly failing to perform a sterilization procedure she paid for and then failing to tell her that the procedure was not performed. She claimed the doctor’s actions caused an unplanned pregnancy and the birth of her healthy fourth child, a d[...]

North Carolina Appellate Court Holds COVID-19 Immunity Statute Did Not Preclude Medical Malpractice Claim

June 28, 2024

Background Doris Griffin Land was diagnosed with a high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion in early 2020, which was at high risk of turning into cervical cancer. Mrs. Land’s health care providers ultimately determined that a total vaginal hysterectomy (“TVH”) was necessary. On June 29, 2020[...]

$1M South Carolina Medical Malpractice Settlement For Death Due To Sepsis From Perforated Uterus

June 8, 2024

In January 2024, a settlement in the amount of $1 million was reached in a South Carolina medical malpractice wrongful death claim involving the allegedly negligently performed diagnostic hysteroscopy on a patient during which the defendant gynecologist perforated the patient’s uterine wall an[...]

Medical Mistreatment Of Women In ICE Detention

August 21, 2023

Medical Mistreatment Of Women In ICE Detention: The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the United States Senate issued a Staff Report on November 15, 20922 entitled “Medical Mistreatment of Women in ICE Detention” which stated, in part: In May 2021, the Permanent Subcommittee on[...]

$15,500 Washington Medical Malpractice Verdict For Failure To Remove Ovary

January 11, 2023

$15,500 Verdict For Failure To Remove Ovary: In September 2022, a 12-person Washington medical malpractice jury sitting in Asotin County Superior Court deliberated for six hours before returning its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs for noneconomic damages in the amount of $15,500 for the alleged m[...]

A Brief Early History Of The Filshie Clip (By Dr. Filshie Himself)

November 8, 2022

A Brief Early History Of The Filshie Clip: The following is an exchange between a moderator and Dr. Marcus Filshie that occurred during the November 2001 conference of the American Association of Gynecological Laparoscopists in San Francisco, California: Hugo Verhoeven, MD: “Good afternoo[...]

Defense Verdict In West Virginia Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Case

April 26, 2022

On February 18, 2022, a West Virginia Winchester Circuit Court jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant OBGYN doctor who was alleged to have been negligent in delivering a baby on December 1, 2015, during which the forceps-assisted delivery fractured the newborn’s facial bones and inj[...]

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