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Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

$2.4 Million Maryland Medical Malpractice Verdict For Botched Breast Cancer Treatment

June 30, 2022

On June 27, 2022, a Circuit Court for Baltimore County medical malpractice jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $2.4 million ($143,305.96 for past medical expenses and $2,256,694.04 in non-economic damages, which will be reduced pursuant to Maryland’s cap on non[...]

Washington Appellate Court Reverses Defense Summary Judgment In Hospital Malpractice Case Involving Death Of Two-Year-Old

June 29, 2022

The Court of Appeals of the State of Washington Division Three (“Washington Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion filed on April 21, 2022 in a medical malpractice case involving the death of a two-year-old: “The Pittmans have produced ample evidence to overcome summary [...]

New York City Medical Malpractice Statistics (FY 2021)

June 27, 2022

NYC Medical Malpractice Statistics: The New York City Annual Claims Report for Fiscal Year 2021 that was issued on June 22, 2022 stated with regard to medical malpractice claims against New York City: Since FY 2012—when 624 claims were filed—the number of medical malpractice claims filed has ste[...]

New York Appellate Court Revives Brain Hemorrhage Medical Malpractice Case

June 4, 2022

The decedent, who was 36 years old, arrived at the emergency department of the defendant Lutheran Medical Center (“Lutheran”) at 1:12 a.m. on July 5, 2012, complaining of a migraine headache lasting for one day. She was examined by the defendant David N. Barabe and discharged later that [...]

Denver Hospital Settles 24-Year-Old’s Medical Malpractice Death Case For The Maximum: $387,000

May 30, 2022

It was recently announced that Denver Health Medical Center and the University of Colorado (collectively, “Denver Health”) settled a family’s Colorado medical malpractice wrongful death case arising from the unnecessary death of a 24-year-old snowboarder for $387,000, which was the[...]

Connecticut Appellate Court Affirms $3M Medical Malpractice Verdict For Perforated Rectum From Enema

May 29, 2022

The Connecticut Appellate Court held in its opinion dated February 4, 2022 that the trial court properly denied the defendant’s motion to set aside the over $3 million medical malpractice verdict, finding that the plaintiffs presented sufficient expert evidence for the jury to find that nurse [...]

Illinois Appellate Court Finds No Apparent Authority In Finding For Hospital In Catheter Medical Malpractice Case

May 28, 2022

Background Facts On March 19, 2012, plaintiff presented to an immediate-care facility complaining of abdominal pain. Following orders given to him at the immediate-care center, plaintiff went to defendant’s outpatient department for diagnostic imaging. Plaintiff was diagnosed with acute appendicit[...]

Texas Appellate Court Affirms Experts’ Reports Were Sufficient When Considered Together In Health Care Liability Case

May 23, 2022

The Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals stated in its Memorandum Opinion filed on March 15, 2022 in a Texas medical malpractice case where the defendants challenged the sufficiency of the plaintiff’s experts’ reports: “Appellee is permitted to rely on more than one expert report in m[...]

Arkansas Appellate Court Reinstates Stillborn Wrongful Death Medical Malpractice Claim

May 17, 2022

In its opinion filed on March 9, 2022, the Arkansas Court of Appeals Division I (“Arkansas Appellate Court”) held in an Arkansas medical malpractice wrongful death case involving the stillborn delivery of a baby: “We affirm the dismissal of the amended survival claim because the in[...]

Georgia Appellate Court Affirms Hospital’s Arbitration Agreement Did Not Apply To Unborn Baby’s Malpractice Claim

May 14, 2022

Jacqueline Kingston van Engelen (“Jackie”) went to Emory Healthcare, Inc.’s Emory Johns Creek Hospital with vaginal bleeding on July 10, 2019, while she was 31 weeks pregnant. She was discharged but returned the next morning on July 11, 2019, this time with vaginal bleeding and con[...]

$11.9 Million Texas Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict (Reduced To $2.19 Million Due To Texas’ Cap On Damages)

May 4, 2022

On April 26, 2022, Maples Nix & Diesselhorst attorneys Glendell Nix, Jacob Diesselhorst, Shea Bracken, and Brenda Doroteo, along with local counsel Malachi Daws and Judson Daws, obtained a substantial plaintiff’s verdict in Jefferson County, Texas (Beaumont) after a 3-week jury trial befor[...]

Rhode Island Supreme Court Orders New Trial Where Medical Malpractice Defense Attorney Made Improper Closing Argument

May 2, 2022

The Rhode Island Supreme Court held in its February 22, 2022 opinion in a Rhode Island medical malpractice case in which a premature baby received total parenteral nutrition (TPN) through a peripheral intravenous line (IV) in her left foot that escaped the IV line and was instead going into the surr[...]

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