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$42.4 Million Illinois Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death From Baclofen Withdrawal

August 25, 2022

$42.4 Million Verdict For Death From Baclofen Withdrawal: On August 19, 2022, an Illinois medical malpractice wrongful death jury awarded $42,400,000 for the death of a 47-year-old quadriplegic father of two girls, who were 6 and 11 at the time of his death, who was being monitored in the hospital f[...]

$7.6M New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Death Of Judge

August 20, 2022

On June 1, 2022, a New York medical malpractice jury found in favor of the plaintiffs in a New York medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit against a hospital for the death of a Supreme Court judge who died from a heart attack in his hospital room after he was left alone and unmonitored for 23 [&[...]

Montana Supreme Court Holds Claim Against Hospital Was For Medical Malpractice

August 19, 2022

Plaintiff Joshua Selensky (“Selensky”) visited Community Hospital of Anaconda (“CHA”) on January 25, 2017, to undergo a procedure performed by Dr. Jonathan Mercer (“Dr. Mercer”) to remove a cyst from his left testicle. Dr. Mercer was not an employee of CHA, but wa[...]

Massachusetts Appeals Court Holds Claim Against Hospital Was For Medical Malpractice And Not Ordinary Negligence

August 7, 2022

Court Holds Claim Against Hospital For Malpractice And Not Negligence: In its opinion dated May 17, 2022, the Massachusetts Appeals Court held that the plaintiff’s claims were for medical negligence and not ordinary negligence: “the gravamen of the complaint sufficiently identified this [...]

Connecticut Woman Sues Hospital For Malpractice After Amputations To All Four Limbs

August 6, 2022

Woman Sues Hospital After Amputations To All Four Limbs: A Connecticut woman has filed a Connecticut medical malpractice lawsuit alleging that medical negligence in treating her sepsis in the hospital resulted in her having all four of her limbs amputated. The plaintiff alleges that she was in good [...]

$13.3M Maryland Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict

August 4, 2022

$13.3M Birth Injury Verdict: A Maryland medical malpractice birth injury jury in a conservative Maryland jurisdiction (Harford County, Maryland) returned its verdict in favor of a now 18-year-old who suffered serious bleeding in his brain during his delivery in 2004. The Maryland medical malpractice[...]

Maryland Appellate Court Finds Hospital Vicariously Liable For Actions Of Trauma Surgeon

July 31, 2022

Court Finds Hospital Vicariously Liable : Under the doctrine of apparent agency, an entity may be found vicariously liable to a third party for the negligence of its apparent agent if (1) the entity represents, or acquiesces in the appearance, that an individual is its agent; (2) the third party rel[...]

$30M Georgia Medical Malpractice Birth Injury Verdict

July 28, 2022

$30M Malpractice Birth Injury Verdict: On July 22, 2022, a Georgia medical malpractice birth injury jury returned its verdict in the amount of $30 million in favor of the plaintiff in a case against a hospital and an obstetrician regarding the severe birth injuries suffered by a newborn during labor[...]

Iowa Pays $7.5M To Settle Medical Malpractice Claim Against University Of Iowa Hospitals And Clinics

July 17, 2022

Iowa Pays $7.5M To Settle Medical Malpractice Claim: On July 11, 2022, Iowa agreed to pay a 41-year-old man $7.5 million to settle his medical malpractice claims against University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (“UIHC”) after he suffered ongoing major neurological deficits, including spe[...]

California Hospital Found To Have Overdosed Kidney Donor With Opioid And Failed To Monitor

July 15, 2022

A California court found UCFS liable for the opioid overdose death of a kidney donor patient while he was in the hospital following transplant surgery, concluding “based upon the evidence presented that it is more likely than not that the Regents (of University of California) were negligent in[...]

Connecticut Hospital Will Appeal $12.5 Million Medical Malpractice Verdict

July 5, 2022

Hospital Appeals $12.5 Million Verdict: A Connecticut medical malpractice wrongful death jury awarded $12.5 million against an orthopedic surgeon for the death of a 63-year-old patient who died from a pulmonary embolism three weeks after he had same-day surgery at the defendant hospital (the Tully C[...]

$8.3 Million Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Medication Mix-Up During Surgery

July 3, 2022

$8.3 Million Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict For Medication Mix-Up During Surgery: In early April 2022, a Texas medical malpractice jury returned a verdict against a Texas hospital and an anesthesia practice for the brain damage suffered by a patient during surgery when an anesthesiologist adminis[...]

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