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Texas Appellate Court Reverses Dismissal Of Medical Malpractice Case Based On Deficient Expert Report

October 15, 2022

Court Reverses Dismissal Of Case: The Court of Appeals Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo (“Texas Appellate Court”) held in its May 9, 2022 Opinion that the trial court erred in dismissing the Texas medical malpractice case when it failed to consider the plaintiff’s amended expe[...]

California Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment Granted To Hospital On Ostensible Agency Theory

October 8, 2022

Court Affirms Summary Judgment Granted To Hospital On Ostensible Agency Theory: Elisa Magallanes de Valle brought a medical malpractice action against Dr. Rebecca Brock (her personal treating physician), Golden Valley Health Centers, and Doctors Medical Center of Modesto (“DMC”), after s[...]

Texas Appellate Court Affirms Plaintiffs’ Medical-Expert Report Was Sufficient In Fall From Operating Room Table Case

October 7, 2022

Court Affirms Medical-Expert Report Sufficient In Operating Room Table Fall Case: John Swaim and his wife, Waltraud, filed a Texas medical malpractice lawsuit in which they alleged that on November 9, 2019, John fell at home and went to Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital (the “Hospital”) f[...]

Michigan Appellate Court Holds Fall From Hospital Stretcher During Transport Was Medical Malpractice Claim

September 27, 2022

Court Holds Fall From Hospital Stretcher During Transport Was Malpractice: As Leegwater, a registered nurse working in the defendant hospital’s emergency department, pushed the stretcher through the doorway to the radiology suite, 97-year-old Elaine Quick apparently moved her left leg through [...]

Michigan Appellate Court Holds Claim For Fall In Hospital Bathroom Is Medical Malpractice Claim

September 24, 2022

The State of Michigan Court of Appeals (“Michigan Appellate Court”) held in its Per Curiam unpublished Opinion dated June 16, 2022 that the plaintiff’s claim involving the alleged failure of hospital staff to monitor him while he was in the bathroom when they knew he was a fall ris[...]

New Jersey Appellate Court Rejects Contract Claim In Medical Malpractice Case

September 14, 2022

In its decision dated February 1, 2022, the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division (“New Jersey Appellate Court”) stated in a New Jersey medical malpractice case on appeal: “There is no question but that the contracts obligated Middlesex, Joshi and Borja to render service[...]

Why Do We Need Hospital Malpractice Lawyers?

September 12, 2022

A hospital malpractice causes unnecessary harm to unwitting patients. If you feel like you’ve been a victim of hospital negligence, Hospital Malpractice Lawyers can help you get the compensation you deserve. Turn to us when you don’t know where to turn. Call us toll free in the United States[...]

Georgia Supreme Court Revives Birth Injury Malpractice Case, Finding Two-Dismissal Rule Misapplied

September 11, 2022

After their newborn son died in a Savannah hospital, the parents (“Joyners”) filed a Georgia medical malpractice wrongful death action in the State Court of Fulton County, naming Leaphart, several nurses, and several corporate entities as defendants. Upon determining that Chatham County [...]

Kentucky Appellate Court Affirms Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendants Where Plaintiff Failed To Qualify Its Expert To Render Causation Opinion

September 9, 2022

In its unpublished opinion rendered on June 3, 2022, the Commonwealth of Kentucky Court of Appeals (“Kentucky Appellate Court”) affirmed a trial court’s granting summary judgment to the defendants in a medical malpractice case where the plaintiff’s medical expert was a nurse [...]

Georgia Appellate Court Reverses Defense Summary Judgment In Post-Surgical Pulmonary Embolism Death Case

September 8, 2022

Court Reverses Summary Judgment In Pulmonary Embolism Case: In a Georgia medical malpractice wrongful death case in which the plaintiffs alleged that defendants Piedmont Henry Hospital, Thomas R. Fitzsimmons, M.D., and others violated the standard of care after Mary Patricia Conyers allegedly died f[...]

Actor Bill Paxton Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit Settled

August 30, 2022

Actor Bill Paxton Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death Lawsuit Settled: The California medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of actor Bill Paxton against a Los Angeles hospital and a cardiac surgeon reportedly has been settled for an undisclosed sum. Bill Paxton died on Februa[...]

Maryland Is First State To Accept Electronic Clinical Quality Measure Data From Hospitals

August 28, 2022

Maryland has partnered with CRISP, Maryland’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE), and Medisolv, a leader in quality management software, to become the first state in the country to successfully receive Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM) data from Maryland hospitals under a [...]

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